The battle of the peas
A mid week visit on the way home from work, it was sunny and warm during the day…
Category: allotment
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…
Lots of weeding, planting out cucumbers
An afternoon of weeding where I filled two buckets full of bindweed, I also tied up the tomatoes…
The night of the peas and courgettes
I had not been to the plot for over a week, the weather had been a mix of…
Garlic and tomatoes
Suddenly it was mid year, longest day, time for the garlic to be pulled up. Until a week…
Wires for the Raspberries
On my todo list I have “wire up raspberries” which is a reminder to put in place some…
Hose pipes and leeks
Watering the plot has always been quite a major job, multiple trips to the water trough up and…
Hot(ish) Days
Still not really hitting 20c according to the temperature probe in the garden, but in the sun it…
Everything is growing
Firstly, bindweed. I managed with ease to fill a small trug with it. Mostly it comes out easy…
The evening of the sprout plants
The sprouts I sowed in seed tray, in coir, had grown well but were starting to show signs…
Just weeding
A late start and one where it was hot and sunny. I could had done more but I…
Cutting the grass, again
I thought I would go up to the plot to give the seeds a bit of a water.…
Peas and Potatoes
I found it hard to find borlotti bean seeds, I tracked them down as pinto beans. I’m not…
Sunny afternoon at the plot
Suddenly, Sunday afternoon it became sunny and warm. It’s not yet been hot yet this year, there has…
Early sunny morning – lots done
A good four hours on the plot while Tom was at work, super early in the morning and…
Last row of potatoes before it rains
Sun, a small bit of warmth, but plenty of rain means the plot and it’s bindweed was in…
Parsnips and Purple Sprouting
I wanted to sow parsnips last week but the weather didn’t allow it. It was cloudy but warm…
Potatoes In
Easter weekend was set to be super sunny for the most part (BRITS SIZZLE IN EASTER HEATWAVE.. as…
Tidying up – last fire of the year
This weekend would be the last time fires are permitted until the end of summer, so I was…
New decking, more sowing, some repotting
Finally got round to replacing the “decking” at the plot. It was originally made of pallets but after…
More seeds
Mostly sowing more seeds, which will start off indoors until they germinate and then go outside undercover. Last…
Starting to sow seeds
Suddenly… it was time to sow seeds for 2023 and with the prospect of it getting busy as…