Swede plants
We have never bought plants, we have always grown from seed. Buying in small seedlings is just too…
Category: allotment
Planting out purple sprouting
I thought I had left it a bit late, but looking back at notes from last year I…
Sprouts and more watering
During the summer months there is not much to do apart from watering, weeding, and harvesting. Most of…
The Hottest Day Ever
We didn’t get temperatures of 40c but we were around 30c for most of the day, maxing at…
Summer time – lots of watering
The potatoes on the plot certainly were in need of water when I visited in the evening, hopefully…
Tomatoes, Squash, Decking
Lots going on both at home and at the plot. At home I pulled the over wintered onions…
Garlic and Onion Harvest
Suddenly, both the garlic and the overwintered onions looked ready, they had both died back. I did have…
2021 – The Stats
Summary A bit late (halfway through 2022!) but time to look at the stats for 2021. Highlights include:…
Sun – Rain – Sun – Mice
We have had hot days of 24c and then lots of heavy rain in between, good weather for…
Planting out at the plot
An early 7am start, up to the plot in the car with various things to plant out. I…
Left over potatoes and cutting grass
A hot and sunny afternoon doing small bits around the plot. I planted some borlotti beans, seeds given…
Lots of Weeding – no Rain
It didn’t rain in April and so I have been watering both at home and at the plot.…
Earthing Up Potatoes – sowing carrots
A quick visit to the plot to sow a row of carrots and beetroot. While there I noticed…
Potatoes all in…
An early morning start at the plot, and why not with the good Easter weather we were having.…
Potatoes and Parsnips
A freaky warm week, blue skies and sun. I spent an early morning at the plot and it…
Late night digging
On week to go until the clocks change, suddenly evening visits become possible. Even this week, with recent…
Building a Shed not on our plot
No our plot, we aren’t allowed sheds on our plot. Myself and Tom built a shed, well Tom…
Compost and onions
It was blue skies and sun, cold but warm when the sun was on you. That was the…
After the Storm
I wasn’t too worried, although I knew I had not really secured the netting very well last week…
Looking after the Purple Sprouting
Sown months and months ago, these take a very long time to mature and give something to harvest.…
Parsnips from the plot
Most of the parsnips I direct sowed in the garden and so far each one we have dug…
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…