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It took longer than I was expecting, but I did end up doing some pretty deep digging in…
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It took longer than I was expecting, but I did end up doing some pretty deep digging in…
I dug up the remaining parsnips, not the best harvest but better than nothing. They will be chopped…
I got to the plot before sunrise this morning, it was a bit dark and certainly a lot…
A lack of plot visits for over the previous months mostly due to constant rain every weekend. It…
I knew there was woodchip available at the plot but I had not been able to get there…
A quick summary of 2022… a year that seemed to come and go way too quickly. It was…
I sometimes have so much time off around Christmas but the days are too short or the days…
One minute it was autumn, the next it was full blown biblical winter. Dark skies, rain, wind, floods…
With bad weather and other commitments getting in the way, I had my first visit the plot for…
Hard to believe that there was a row of carrots between the parsnips and the beetroot on the…
It’s been a busy weekend, no time to go to the plot and so I went after work…
For quite a while we had two pumpkins growing off of the one plant, one grew larger each…
Lots of rain and it was heavy. I wondered how the netting I had put over the brassicas…
Suddenly it feels like autumn when only the other week we were in the middle of a drought.…
I’ve tried overwintered green manure before but have always done it a little too late meaning they had…
It was starting to get a bit tedious, constant watering every other day which by the time you…
We have never bought plants, we have always grown from seed. Buying in small seedlings is just too…
I thought I had left it a bit late, but looking back at notes from last year I…
During the summer months there is not much to do apart from watering, weeding, and harvesting. Most of…
We didn’t get temperatures of 40c but we were around 30c for most of the day, maxing at…
The potatoes on the plot certainly were in need of water when I visited in the evening, hopefully…
Lots going on both at home and at the plot. At home I pulled the over wintered onions…
Suddenly, both the garlic and the overwintered onions looked ready, they had both died back. I did have…
Summary A bit late (halfway through 2022!) but time to look at the stats for 2021. Highlights include:…
We have had hot days of 24c and then lots of heavy rain in between, good weather for…
An early 7am start, up to the plot in the car with various things to plant out. I…
A hot and sunny afternoon doing small bits around the plot. I planted some borlotti beans, seeds given…
It didn’t rain in April and so I have been watering both at home and at the plot.…
A quick visit to the plot to sow a row of carrots and beetroot. While there I noticed…
An early morning start at the plot, and why not with the good Easter weather we were having.…
A freaky warm week, blue skies and sun. I spent an early morning at the plot and it…
On week to go until the clocks change, suddenly evening visits become possible. Even this week, with recent…
No our plot, we aren’t allowed sheds on our plot. Myself and Tom built a shed, well Tom…
It was blue skies and sun, cold but warm when the sun was on you. That was the…
I wasn’t too worried, although I knew I had not really secured the netting very well last week…
Sown months and months ago, these take a very long time to mature and give something to harvest.…
Most of the parsnips I direct sowed in the garden and so far each one we have dug…
A quick summary of 2021… January The year started with zombies, coffee, and cow poo. I was amazed…
We seem to take days off work over Christmas when it’s dark and wet and not much going…
Short days, mostly just drizzle, damp, and cloud, but sometimes the odd bit of sun too. I took…
An unexpected sunny (cold) afternoon with a couple of hours to spare, so I thought I would plant…
A quick visit to the plot, it was my birthday and I had a new Hori Hori knife…
We braved the wind and the cold to venture out to Hurstpierpoint to buy a second hoe so…
I was faced with a thick sea of leaves when I arrived at the plot late in the…
Every year it comes to about now and I start pondering about where to get hold of cheap…
Rain and wind, that’s it until March time maybe. I had left carrots in the ground long enough…
I pondered about it, I thought I’d leave it to next year, I did some small bits of…
I took advantage of a couple of days this week where I was working in the afternoon and…
A surprise sunny afternoon, I spent it putting up the next bit of ‘fence’ and continuing to tidy…