Parsnips from the plot
Most of the parsnips I direct sowed in the garden and so far each one we have dug…
Category: allotment
2021 Summary
A quick summary of 2021… January The year started with zombies, coffee, and cow poo. I was amazed…
Dark and wet days – moving rhubarb
We seem to take days off work over Christmas when it’s dark and wet and not much going…
More onions and less fence
Short days, mostly just drizzle, damp, and cloud, but sometimes the odd bit of sun too. I took…
Blackberry Planted
An unexpected sunny (cold) afternoon with a couple of hours to spare, so I thought I would plant…
Knives and Birthdays
A quick visit to the plot, it was my birthday and I had a new Hori Hori knife…
Hammer and Blackberries
We braved the wind and the cold to venture out to Hurstpierpoint to buy a second hoe so…
Leaves everywhere
I was faced with a thick sea of leaves when I arrived at the plot late in the…
Woodchip and poo
Every year it comes to about now and I start pondering about where to get hold of cheap…
Quick visit for carrots
Rain and wind, that’s it until March time maybe. I had left carrots in the ground long enough…
Strawberries Moved
I pondered about it, I thought I’d leave it to next year, I did some small bits of…
Strawberries and onions
I took advantage of a couple of days this week where I was working in the afternoon and…
Strawberries and fence
A surprise sunny afternoon, I spent it putting up the next bit of ‘fence’ and continuing to tidy…
An autumn feeling
With a bit of summer still hanging on, in the shape of one late red strawberry in the…
Compost and the Shredder 2000
An exciting day is one that we bought the ‘Shredder 2000’…. It was actually a Ryobi contact shredder…
Turnip Time
I had to go up to the plot the next day to remind myself what I had done…
Lots of jobs done
Bank holiday weather turned out to be grey cloudy and not that inviting. I wanted to go up…
Quick visit to fetch courgettes
Not because we really needed some, more because if I didn’t pick them then they would take over…
Potatoes and Fences
I pulled up the tomato plants at the plot, rescuing a small number of green tomatoes along the…
Planting out things
Not much to say about the storms the day before, I had tied things up the night before…
Picking up tomato plants
It had been windy and rainy all week, but one evening at least the rain stopped. I thought…
Summer Evenings
It’s only been hot summer weather for the last week, but that’s enough for words like “heatwave”, “drought”…
The Night of the Potatoes – lots of them
One of the “big four” harvests came in this week, the potatoes or at least the start of…
It’s Summer Time
Saturday was like winter time, wet and cold. Sunday (morning) was like summer, Sunday afternoon was back to…
Wind damaged tomatoes
Strong winds in the summer are a bit worse than strong winds in the winter, the tomato plants…
A bit of calm before all the storms
It’s maybe worth taking photos on the odd warm and still day, it’s doesn’t seem to happen much…
Cloudy, murky, but warm(ish)
Over wintered broad beans, we have been giving them away, we have so many and the freezer just…
Weeding after the rain
Actually, there is more rain to come, but a small break allowed me to spend some time weeding.…
An evening of planting
It’s about time, a bit late this year. The final set of squash plants planted out at the…
Leeks, Sprouts & Squashes
Not much happened in May, it was too cold, nothing was growing. All it needs is sun and…
Sun!
A visit in the evening on a rare non-raining, non-windy day, not the warmest but quite calming all…
The Day After Tomorrow
I’m surprised not more was made of it on the news, we had super strong wind blowing day…
Planting out Parsnips
The first year we grew parsnips I started them off undercover in loo rolls and planted them out…
The night of the netting
The fruit cage was never destined to be covered in bright blue scaffold netting, I was waiting for…
Rain and sun
Which means weeds have shot up during the week, I spent the first hour weeding, pulling up bindweed…
The Longest (busiest) Day
The list of things to do was long and it included a fruit cage and a greenhouse (the…
Evening Visits
Have started, a quick 30 minutes or so after work which might have turned into an hour, or…
More potatoes and onions
Overwintered onion seed plants are doing quite well on the plot although are noticeably behind the sets, which…
So much rhubarb
We have been busy at home these last couple of weeks and I knew while we were absent…
2020 The Stats
Summary I might as well start with the obvious – Zombies. This whole Covid stuff meant we prepared…
Potatoes are go…
Busy weekends coming up, and cold weather plus snow (I’ll believe it when I see it) forecast over…
Onions and rhubarb
I walked up to the plot early in the morning with a small bag of onion sets to…
Just sowing…
I have a long list of things to start sowing undercover which I am working through bit-by-bit. I…
Prepping the beds
Give it a couple of weeks or so and I’ll be planting potatoes and onions, I thought this…
Repotting & Sun on the Plot
Now that both the currants and the gooseberries are in the same area on the plot (and hopefully…
Freezing weather and beans
The thermometer was gladly telling me that the high for the week had been 0c while the low…
Pottering in the (no) snow
There was no real plan this morning apart from taking pictures of the allotment in the snow that…
Just a walk to get bits for tea…
There is not much to do at the plot, nor in the garden. Both are pretty wet and…
No more cherry tree
I’m not sure how I feel about people who plant trees on allotment plots, they are such a…