Garden plans and strawberry beds SteveAugust 23, 2020 When we dug over the lawn in the garden we had no real plan apart from having a…
Evening visits in the heat SteveAugust 19, 2020 All of last week was so super hot we ended up doing quite a lot of visits to…
Super hot and it’s only 10am SteveAugust 9, 2020 I purposely went up to the plot at 6am in order to beat the hot weather, my first…
Late Night Poo SteveAugust 5, 2020 It is noticeable that evenings are getting darker earlier, but the warm weather means it’s not a problem.…
Watering and tidying SteveAugust 2, 2020 Mostly this week we have been watering, either the garden with the water butt, or visits to the…
Podcast SteveJuly 30, 2020July 30, 2020 It was a good to catch up with Richard of The Veg Grower Podcast the other evening, on…
Blackberries, swedes, courgettes – and paths SteveJuly 27, 2020 A full day of rain of Saturday meant next day, hot and sunny, plants have liked it a…
One last lot of carrots SteveJuly 22, 2020 The carrots in the garden started off well, but they have been crowded and got quite wet and…
Leeks and netting SteveJuly 15, 2020 Breakfast outside in the sun, by the evening it seemed cold, dark, and back to winter once again.…
Evening watering and currants SteveJuly 13, 2020 For a while it feels like it is the middle of winter and then the next week it…
Wintery evening of onions SteveJuly 12, 2020July 13, 2020 Something Tom and myself look forward to is the summer evening “pulling of the onions”, but he had…
Problem with wind… SteveJuly 5, 2020 Monday last week it started and it has not stopped, wind is a bit of a problem. The…
Day of the currants and the poo SteveJune 28, 2020 Super windy day but at least it was sunny unlike yesterday which was like a cold winter day.…
Night of the Potatoes SteveJune 24, 2020 Just days before lockdown we quickly planted some seed potatoes… just weeks before lockdown is mostly lifted, we…
Tidying SteveJune 22, 2020 A lot of focus has been made on the garden, and for good reason. Everything is busy growing…
Rain – Sun – Fruit SteveJune 21, 2020 A lot of rain, a lot of sun, meaning a lot of growing has been happening, in particular…
Cutting down trees SteveJune 15, 2020 Maybe not the whole tree but a certain amount of branches had to go from the trees that…
Bye celeriac, hello tomatoes SteveJune 6, 2020June 6, 2020 They didn’t last long, less than a week after months of looking after at home. All a bit…
An early morning SteveMay 31, 2020June 3, 2020 I feel like I am not on top of the allotment, visits have not been much this year…
Planting sprouts SteveMay 25, 2020May 25, 2020 It was suggested it would be raining later on in the day and so even though it was…
Cutting back SteveMay 17, 2020May 18, 2020 A walk up to the allotment in the afternoon showed that following the recent cold and windy weather…
Eating radish SteveMay 10, 2020 The first lot of radish were sown at the beginning of March, then instead of being taken up…
Back to the Plot – for now SteveMay 3, 2020May 6, 2020 Let us not get over excited, all the talk by the media of relaxing lock down (have they…
Venturing Out into the Wild SteveApril 26, 2020 Three weeks, or is it four weeks, it might even be five weeks – it seems like a…
Radish in a Pot SteveMarch 29, 2020 It is sunny and inviting outside, the clocks have changed, it seems an ideal morning to look at…
A Dash for the Leeks SteveMarch 25, 2020 I think of it as you “can” go to the allotment, but I think “should” you? I also…
Potatoes and Onions SteveMarch 22, 2020 We walked up to the allotment in the afternoon armed with bags of seed potatoes and onion sets.…
Getting things ready SteveMarch 15, 2020March 15, 2020 With all the bad weather since Christmas it is hard to believe it is time to start doing…
Larger Strawberries… SteveMarch 8, 2020 I had a bit of a list to work through, it was the first non-cold, non-raining morning for…
2019 – The Stats SteveMarch 4, 2020March 4, 2020 Everyone likes spreadsheets and numbers, here is 2019 in numbers… These figures are from the year’s worth of…
Sprouts, Swedes and Woodchip SteveFebruary 15, 2020April 5, 2020 Due to commitments and weather I have not been to the plot for a number of weeks. A…
Parsnips, Poo, and Frost SteveJanuary 18, 2020April 5, 2020 January can be pretty brutal when it wants to be, while at the same time it can be…
2019 Summary SteveJanuary 8, 2020January 1, 2022 A quick month-by-month summary of 2019…. January planted more garlic, possibly a bit late as quite a lot…
Broad Beans Take Two SteveJanuary 5, 2020 Sowed six direct in the ground and they all came up, unfortunately mice found them and nibbled off…
Planting (more) Garlic SteveDecember 21, 2019 Traditionally on the shortest day of the year to be pulled on the longest. I planted in November…
Chopping Trees SteveDecember 19, 2019December 19, 2019 Not quite, chopping branches off of trees instead, ones that come over from the field and shadow the…
Unexpected moving chairs SteveDecember 8, 2019December 12, 2019 A “quick visit” to get some parsnips and things, turned out to be a couple of hours instead.…
Sprouts and Potatoes SteveNovember 30, 2019 A “quick” visit in the afternoon to fetch some bits for tea and to dig up the Christmas…
Fresh Poo SteveNovember 17, 2019November 18, 2019 I picked up a number of bags of what looked like very fresh manure that has been delivered…
Fires and cabbages SteveNovember 10, 2019 Just quickly popping up to get some bits for tea, and how about burning some of the wood…
Broad beans and parsnips SteveNovember 3, 2019 In less than a week we have broad beans! Not quite ready to pick, infact only just showing…
Broad beans and cold weather SteveOctober 28, 2019October 28, 2019 The main lot of winter planting is complete now with the planting of broad beans (Aquadulce Claudia). I’ve…
Planting Garlic SteveOctober 12, 2019October 12, 2019 I have normally waited until just before Christmas to plant garlic and left it for six months. This…
Onions and Mushrooms SteveOctober 5, 2019October 6, 2019 We use a lot of onions and so I thought I would have a go at putting in…
Soil and no more cucumbers SteveSeptember 21, 2019September 29, 2019 A random browse on Freegle and I noticed someone down the road from us was giving away a…
Slowing down SteveSeptember 14, 2019September 17, 2019 Normally I spend a good hour weeding each week but today it was done in just five minutes,…
Tidying up – autumn is coming SteveSeptember 7, 2019September 7, 2019 On Thursday you could still convince yourself it was summer, on Friday you knew that autumn would soon…
Tomatoes and Paths SteveAugust 25, 2019 They were saying it was going to be a really hot and sunny bank holiday weekend and so…
Swedes and potatoes SteveAugust 17, 2019 More wind, more rain means the runner beans have gone the same way as they did last year,…
Wind and Rain Damage? SteveAugust 13, 2019August 13, 2019 There appears to actually be none apart from a snapped bean pole. After the load of wind and…