New Year Plot Visit
A cold freezing day but the sun had melted most of the ice by mid morning, although the…
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Winter poo and more leaves
The other day I found a new supply of rotted down horse manure, we were out for a…
A Sea of Leaves
You can on longer deny that autumn is here and winter is coming quickly when you see your…
Pumpkins out, garlic in
A couple of warm sunny autumn days allowed me to go to the plot during the day and…
Picking pumpkins
Time to start tidying up and prepping things. I pulled the last lot of carrots which got us…
Autumn suddenly arrives
You visit the plot and it feels just like summer, if not a bit cooler, you cling onto…
Picking dried beans
The borlotti plants on the plot have all died back so it was time to pick off the…
Covering Swedes a Bit More
I covered the swedes last week in order to keep the birds off but it turns out it…
Pumpkins and tomatoes
With outdoor tomatoes I spent the beginning of summer wondering if tomatoes will actually start to appear and…
Autumn already?
It certainly feels like it, shorter evenings and colder mornings. Have we eaten breakfast in the garden for…
The day of the potatoes
A month later than I would had wanted, due to the bad weather, I finally dug up the…
About time I did some weeding
Because in previous years I used to always go up to the plot super early in the morning…
Onions Out, Purple Sprouting In
It was forecast to be a wet week with super hot days in-between, I’d been waiting for a…
Quick visits to the plot
The one day I had time to be at the plot the weather decided to modal mid winter…
Courgettes and swedes
We have started to puck courgettes and with all the wet weather I am expecting them to grow…
Suddenly Summer
Lots of watering other the last week leaving the plot with a mixture of over wintered plants coming…
Windy visit
Super windy with cold and rain yesterday and sun with blue skies today. I was surprised to see…
Beans plant out, strawberries picked
I cut the grass paths between plots, and I built a bit more of the decking edging that…
Planting out squash & strawberry war victory
A mixed weather forecast of warm sunny and rainy days for the next week which made me think…
The battle of the weeds
A mix of warm weather and rain meant the plot, and in fact the whole allotment site, had…
The battle of the peas
A mid week visit on the way home from work, it was sunny and warm during the day…
Netting for strawberries
I started this the other week, creating a frame and netting for the strawberries. The idea here is…
Evening visit, banking up potatoes
No longer working for home, for now, means I can’t finish work and be on the plot before…
Strawberry netting and potatoes
A had a chance afternoon not at work during the week and so took the opportunity to spend…
Prepping for Courgettes
Cloudy early morning which soon turned to warm sun. I cycled up to the plot as the main…
Parsnips in the wind
Blue sky and sun but very windy. Coming from the south and so hitting the plot head on.…
Potatoes planted
So far with Easter weather, promised to be windy and unsettled, has turned out to be warm with…
Onions planted – beds prepped
Forecast for rain but when I woke up it was blue sky and sunny. I wasn’t planning anything…
Enough home made compost to go around
After a bit of a rainy week and next week looking like much the same, Saturday started off…
More beans and no fruit cage
It must be the first day of the year where it has been cold but sunny, clear blue…
Cold and Wet
There was a brief bit of early morning sun and blue sky which made me think I could…
Chilli seedlings
Not much has happened on the plot for weeks because it’s been constantly raining all month. However, at…
Frozen broad beans
For the last couple of years we have not had any frost or sub-zero temperatures. We got a…
New year – new neighbour
2024 has (still) not given us flying cars but it has given us lots of rain and high…
A sunny day – prepping a bed
I had a midweek day off work and it turned out to be quite sunny and warm, I…
Poo on the plot
According to the weather, today will be the last day of the year when it won’t be wet,…
Clearing up leaves
The last time I was at the plot, there were leaves on the trees and everything was looking…
Winter time, winter veg
I have not been to the plot for nearly a month, a mixture of being busy and bad…
Digging up the paths
Not me, the local wildlife…. We get this every so often where upon arriving I find a lot…
Turnip harvest means it’s Autumn
I’m glad I decided to grow turnips this year as I really fancied a meal with turnips, maybe…
Quick tidy up
A short afternoon visit, after all the wind and rain during the week some fresh air was needed…
Tomatoes out – Onions in
I received an email the other week from the allotment committee telling us that we must all destroy…
Cutting grass and thinking it’s too hot
Three days where the temperature has reached 25c which makes it a heatwave. That is where we have…
Super sunny morning at the plot
It was still all a bit misty when I arrived early in the morning and a bit cold.…
Climbing trees, making netting
It seems like ages since I have gone to the plot first thing in the morning and spent…
Watching things grow at the plot
The middle of summer and while there is plenty to be done on the plot, at the same…
More sun, more weeding
I also built a bit more of the plot edging using the old decking from the garden, a…
A break in the rain for some weeding
I quickly went up to the allotment in the evening when it was neither windy, rainy, or cold.…
The windy day of potatoes – and sprouts
A rare sunny and dry day, although windy, I thought we’d better dig up the potatoes. This was…
An evening of potatoes and swedes
At long last I got to plant out the swedes, so far this year has been mostly catching…