
An autumn feeling
With a bit of summer still hanging on, in the shape of one late red strawberry in the…
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With a bit of summer still hanging on, in the shape of one late red strawberry in the…
An exciting day is one that we bought the ‘Shredder 2000’…. It was actually a Ryobi contact shredder…
I had to go up to the plot the next day to remind myself what I had done…
Bank holiday weather turned out to be grey cloudy and not that inviting. I wanted to go up…
Not because we really needed some, more because if I didn’t pick them then they would take over…
I pulled up the tomato plants at the plot, rescuing a small number of green tomatoes along the…
Not much to say about the storms the day before, I had tied things up the night before…
It had been windy and rainy all week, but one evening at least the rain stopped. I thought…
It’s only been hot summer weather for the last week, but that’s enough for words like “heatwave”, “drought”…
One of the “big four” harvests came in this week, the potatoes or at least the start of…
Saturday was like winter time, wet and cold. Sunday (morning) was like summer, Sunday afternoon was back to…
Strong winds in the summer are a bit worse than strong winds in the winter, the tomato plants…
It’s maybe worth taking photos on the odd warm and still day, it’s doesn’t seem to happen much…
Over wintered broad beans, we have been giving them away, we have so many and the freezer just…
Actually, there is more rain to come, but a small break allowed me to spend some time weeding.…
It’s about time, a bit late this year. The final set of squash plants planted out at the…
Not much happened in May, it was too cold, nothing was growing. All it needs is sun and…
A visit in the evening on a rare non-raining, non-windy day, not the warmest but quite calming all…
I’m surprised not more was made of it on the news, we had super strong wind blowing day…
The first year we grew parsnips I started them off undercover in loo rolls and planted them out…
The fruit cage was never destined to be covered in bright blue scaffold netting, I was waiting for…
Which means weeds have shot up during the week, I spent the first hour weeding, pulling up bindweed…
The list of things to do was long and it included a fruit cage and a greenhouse (the…
Have started, a quick 30 minutes or so after work which might have turned into an hour, or…
Overwintered onion seed plants are doing quite well on the plot although are noticeably behind the sets, which…
We have been busy at home these last couple of weeks and I knew while we were absent…
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…