Fire and Trees
Finally, I finish pruning/chopping the shrubs and trees in the garden for their yearly haircut. It seems to…
Category: allotment
Shredded bushes and raspberry supports
I’ve been recording outside temperatures for three years now (the computer does all the monitor, I just look…
New Raspberry Bed Complete
It took longer than I was expecting, but I did end up doing some pretty deep digging in…
Parsnips and Raspberries
I dug up the remaining parsnips, not the best harvest but better than nothing. They will be chopped…
Sunrise, frost and raspberries
I got to the plot before sunrise this morning, it was a bit dark and certainly a lot…
Muddy Mud and Woodchip
A lack of plot visits for over the previous months mostly due to constant rain every weekend. It…
New year – new woodchip for paths
I knew there was woodchip available at the plot but I had not been able to get there…
2022 Summary
A quick summary of 2022… a year that seemed to come and go way too quickly. It was…
Getting Wet
I sometimes have so much time off around Christmas but the days are too short or the days…
Suddenly… I get to the Plot
One minute it was autumn, the next it was full blown biblical winter. Dark skies, rain, wind, floods…
Cutting Down Field Beans
With bad weather and other commitments getting in the way, I had my first visit the plot for…
Carrots out, Garlic in…
Hard to believe that there was a row of carrots between the parsnips and the beetroot on the…
Sorting out the Sprouts
It’s been a busy weekend, no time to go to the plot and so I went after work…
Pumpkins, Edging, Field Beans
For quite a while we had two pumpkins growing off of the one plant, one grew larger each…
Heavy Rain
Lots of rain and it was heavy. I wondered how the netting I had put over the brassicas…
Shorter Days
Suddenly it feels like autumn when only the other week we were in the middle of a drought.…
Field Beans – Green Manure
I’ve tried overwintered green manure before but have always done it a little too late meaning they had…
Rain!
It was starting to get a bit tedious, constant watering every other day which by the time you…
Swede plants
We have never bought plants, we have always grown from seed. Buying in small seedlings is just too…
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…