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An autumn feeling

SteveSeptember 26, 2021

With a bit of summer still hanging on, in the shape of one late red strawberry in the…

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Compost and the Shredder 2000

SteveSeptember 13, 2021September 14, 2021

An exciting day is one that we bought the ‘Shredder 2000’…. It was actually a Ryobi contact shredder…

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Turnip Time

SteveSeptember 6, 2021

I had to go up to the plot the next day to remind myself what I had done…

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Lots of jobs done

SteveAugust 30, 2021

Bank holiday weather turned out to be grey cloudy and not that inviting. I wanted to go up…

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Quick visit to fetch courgettes

SteveAugust 21, 2021

Not because we really needed some, more because if I didn’t pick them then they would take over…

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Potatoes and Fences

SteveAugust 14, 2021

I pulled up the tomato plants at the plot, rescuing a small number of green tomatoes along the…

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Planting out things

SteveAugust 1, 2021

Not much to say about the storms the day before, I had tied things up the night before…

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Picking up tomato plants

SteveJuly 30, 2021

It had been windy and rainy all week, but one evening at least the rain stopped. I thought…

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Summer Evenings

SteveJuly 24, 2021

It’s only been hot summer weather for the last week, but that’s enough for words like “heatwave”, “drought”…

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The Night of the Potatoes – lots of them

SteveJuly 18, 2021

One of the “big four” harvests came in this week, the potatoes or at least the start of…

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It’s Summer Time

SteveJuly 14, 2021

Saturday was like winter time, wet and cold. Sunday (morning) was like summer, Sunday afternoon was back to…

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Wind damaged tomatoes

SteveJuly 8, 2021

Strong winds in the summer are a bit worse than strong winds in the winter, the tomato plants…

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A bit of calm before all the storms

SteveJuly 6, 2021July 6, 2021

It’s maybe worth taking photos on the odd warm and still day, it’s doesn’t seem to happen much…

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Cloudy, murky, but warm(ish)

SteveJune 27, 2021

Over wintered broad beans, we have been giving them away, we have so many and the freezer just…

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Weeding after the rain

SteveJune 20, 2021

Actually, there is more rain to come, but a small break allowed me to spend some time weeding.…

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An evening of planting

SteveJune 12, 2021June 15, 2021

It’s about time, a bit late this year. The final set of squash plants planted out at the…

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Leeks, Sprouts & Squashes

SteveJune 8, 2021

Not much happened in May, it was too cold, nothing was growing. All it needs is sun and…

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Sun!

SteveMay 31, 2021

A visit in the evening on a rare non-raining, non-windy day, not the warmest but quite calming all…

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The Day After Tomorrow

SteveMay 23, 2021

I’m surprised not more was made of it on the news, we had super strong wind blowing day…

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Planting out Parsnips

SteveMay 20, 2021

The first year we grew parsnips I started them off undercover in loo rolls and planted them out…

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The night of the netting

SteveMay 13, 2021May 12, 2021

The fruit cage was never destined to be covered in bright blue scaffold netting, I was waiting for…

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Rain and sun

SteveMay 10, 2021

Which means weeds have shot up during the week, I spent the first hour weeding, pulling up bindweed…

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The Longest (busiest) Day

SteveMay 2, 2021May 2, 2021

The list of things to do was long and it included a fruit cage and a greenhouse (the…

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Evening Visits

SteveApril 23, 2021April 22, 2021

Have started, a quick 30 minutes or so after work which might have turned into an hour, or…

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More potatoes and onions

SteveApril 19, 2021April 18, 2021

Overwintered onion seed plants are doing quite well on the plot although are noticeably behind the sets, which…

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So much rhubarb

SteveApril 11, 2021

We have been busy at home these last couple of weeks and I knew while we were absent…

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2020 The Stats

SteveApril 2, 2021January 1, 2022

Summary I might as well start with the obvious – Zombies. This whole Covid stuff meant we prepared…

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Potatoes are go…

SteveApril 1, 2021

Busy weekends coming up, and cold weather plus snow (I’ll believe it when I see it) forecast over…

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Onions and rhubarb

SteveMarch 27, 2021

I walked up to the plot early in the morning with a small bag of onion sets to…

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Just sowing…

SteveMarch 21, 2021

I have a long list of things to start sowing undercover which I am working through bit-by-bit. I…

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Prepping the beds

SteveMarch 14, 2021

Give it a couple of weeks or so and I’ll be planting potatoes and onions, I thought this…

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Repotting & Sun on the Plot

SteveMarch 2, 2021

Now that both the currants and the gooseberries are in the same area on the plot (and hopefully…

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Freezing weather and beans

SteveFebruary 20, 2021

The thermometer was gladly telling me that the high for the week had been 0c while the low…

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Pottering in the (no) snow

SteveFebruary 7, 2021

There was no real plan this morning apart from taking pictures of the allotment in the snow that…

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Just a walk to get bits for tea…

SteveJanuary 31, 2021

There is not much to do at the plot, nor in the garden. Both are pretty wet and…

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No more cherry tree

SteveJanuary 23, 2021

I’m not sure how I feel about people who plant trees on allotment plots, they are such a…

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2020 Summary

SteveJanuary 17, 2021January 1, 2022

A quick summary of 2020… January I planted out some more broadbeans after mice/rats eat some of the…

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Zombies, coffee and cow poo

SteveJanuary 9, 2021

Let’s start with the coffee, and the zombies… It’s been an interesting week with a mixture of it…

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Frosty Parsnips and Gooseberries

SteveDecember 31, 2020December 31, 2020

It seems almost as exciting as snow these days, we don’t get much frost on the south coast…

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Pruning Things

SteveDecember 18, 2020

Not only did I have the afternoon off work, but it was (cold) sunny too. Knowing that it…

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Digging Weed Roots

SteveDecember 13, 2020

Finished off digging the space next to the gooseberries. The gooseberry bushes will move over the next month…

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A quarter of the parsnips

SteveDecember 6, 2020

Because I planted four rows on the plot and only about a quarter of them survived which was…

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Beans and Cabbages

SteveNovember 29, 2020

The other week I sowed broad beans direct in the ground at the plot while also sowing some…

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Mini red cabbage and fennel

SteveNovember 22, 2020

The only reason for visiting the plot this morning was to take up some chopped up bush clippings…

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Just a winter late afternoon visit

SteveNovember 15, 2020

It was a bit windy, certainly a bit rainy and within an hour it would be dark, but…

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Fire time

SteveNovember 8, 2020November 8, 2020

Maybe once or twice a year we have a fire on the plot to get rid of general…

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Pulling carrots in the rain

SteveOctober 25, 2020

I sowed celeriac back in the spring, looked after the seedlings as they grew, kept them watered and…

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Making the most of the sun and the day light

SteveOctober 22, 2020

Probably the only sunny and clear day for a little while and certainly the last chance for an…

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Planting Garlic

SteveOctober 9, 2020October 10, 2020

We had so much garlic this year, not the best looking but quantity overruled quality it seems and…

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Pottering in the (early) autumn sun

SteveSeptember 26, 2020

No real plan this morning, but after a couple of days of rain I thought a visit in…

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