
2020 The Stats
Summary I might as well start with the obvious – Zombies. This whole Covid stuff meant we prepared…
#plot110_sussex
Summary I might as well start with the obvious – Zombies. This whole Covid stuff meant we prepared…
Busy weekends coming up, and cold weather plus snow (I’ll believe it when I see it) forecast over…
I walked up to the plot early in the morning with a small bag of onion sets to…
I have a long list of things to start sowing undercover which I am working through bit-by-bit. I…
Give it a couple of weeks or so and I’ll be planting potatoes and onions, I thought this…
Now that both the currants and the gooseberries are in the same area on the plot (and hopefully…
The thermometer was gladly telling me that the high for the week had been 0c while the low…
There was no real plan this morning apart from taking pictures of the allotment in the snow that…
There is not much to do at the plot, nor in the garden. Both are pretty wet and…
I’m not sure how I feel about people who plant trees on allotment plots, they are such a…
A quick summary of 2020… January I planted out some more broadbeans after mice/rats eat some of the…
Let’s start with the coffee, and the zombies… It’s been an interesting week with a mixture of it…
It seems almost as exciting as snow these days, we don’t get much frost on the south coast…
Not only did I have the afternoon off work, but it was (cold) sunny too. Knowing that it…
Finished off digging the space next to the gooseberries. The gooseberry bushes will move over the next month…
Because I planted four rows on the plot and only about a quarter of them survived which was…
The other week I sowed broad beans direct in the ground at the plot while also sowing some…
The only reason for visiting the plot this morning was to take up some chopped up bush clippings…
It was a bit windy, certainly a bit rainy and within an hour it would be dark, but…
Maybe once or twice a year we have a fire on the plot to get rid of general…
I sowed celeriac back in the spring, looked after the seedlings as they grew, kept them watered and…
Probably the only sunny and clear day for a little while and certainly the last chance for an…
We had so much garlic this year, not the best looking but quantity overruled quality it seems and…
No real plan this morning, but after a couple of days of rain I thought a visit in…
Our Wednesday evening visits to the plot with Tom continue, helped a lot by me finishing work a…
The first lot of planting at the plot for a while, peas and broad beans both a variety…
There is not a lot going on at the plot, it’s all happening in the garden at home…
Part of the idea of tidying up the compost area was to actually empty out the compost so…
It has been on the list for months, tidying up the area around the compost bins. We still…
When we dug over the lawn in the garden we had no real plan apart from having a…
All of last week was so super hot we ended up doing quite a lot of visits to…
I purposely went up to the plot at 6am in order to beat the hot weather, my first…
It is noticeable that evenings are getting darker earlier, but the warm weather means it’s not a problem.…
Mostly this week we have been watering, either the garden with the water butt, or visits to the…
It was a good to catch up with Richard of The Veg Grower Podcast the other evening, on…
A full day of rain of Saturday meant next day, hot and sunny, plants have liked it a…
The carrots in the garden started off well, but they have been crowded and got quite wet and…
Breakfast outside in the sun, by the evening it seemed cold, dark, and back to winter once again.…
For a while it feels like it is the middle of winter and then the next week it…
Something Tom and myself look forward to is the summer evening “pulling of the onions”, but he had…
Monday last week it started and it has not stopped, wind is a bit of a problem. The…
Super windy day but at least it was sunny unlike yesterday which was like a cold winter day.…
Just days before lockdown we quickly planted some seed potatoes… just weeks before lockdown is mostly lifted, we…
A lot of focus has been made on the garden, and for good reason. Everything is busy growing…
A lot of rain, a lot of sun, meaning a lot of growing has been happening, in particular…
Maybe not the whole tree but a certain amount of branches had to go from the trees that…
They didn’t last long, less than a week after months of looking after at home. All a bit…
I feel like I am not on top of the allotment, visits have not been much this year…
It was suggested it would be raining later on in the day and so even though it was…
A walk up to the allotment in the afternoon showed that following the recent cold and windy weather…