
Climbing trees, again
Our Wednesday evening visits to the plot with Tom continue, helped a lot by me finishing work a…
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Our Wednesday evening visits to the plot with Tom continue, helped a lot by me finishing work a…
The first lot of planting at the plot for a while, peas and broad beans both a variety…
There is not a lot going on at the plot, it’s all happening in the garden at home…
Part of the idea of tidying up the compost area was to actually empty out the compost so…
It has been on the list for months, tidying up the area around the compost bins. We still…
When we dug over the lawn in the garden we had no real plan apart from having a…
All of last week was so super hot we ended up doing quite a lot of visits to…
I purposely went up to the plot at 6am in order to beat the hot weather, my first…
It is noticeable that evenings are getting darker earlier, but the warm weather means it’s not a problem.…
Mostly this week we have been watering, either the garden with the water butt, or visits to the…
It was a good to catch up with Richard of The Veg Grower Podcast the other evening, on…
A full day of rain of Saturday meant next day, hot and sunny, plants have liked it a…
The carrots in the garden started off well, but they have been crowded and got quite wet and…
Breakfast outside in the sun, by the evening it seemed cold, dark, and back to winter once again.…
For a while it feels like it is the middle of winter and then the next week it…
Something Tom and myself look forward to is the summer evening “pulling of the onions”, but he had…
Monday last week it started and it has not stopped, wind is a bit of a problem. The…
Super windy day but at least it was sunny unlike yesterday which was like a cold winter day.…
Just days before lockdown we quickly planted some seed potatoes… just weeks before lockdown is mostly lifted, we…
A lot of focus has been made on the garden, and for good reason. Everything is busy growing…
A lot of rain, a lot of sun, meaning a lot of growing has been happening, in particular…
Maybe not the whole tree but a certain amount of branches had to go from the trees that…
They didn’t last long, less than a week after months of looking after at home. All a bit…
I feel like I am not on top of the allotment, visits have not been much this year…
It was suggested it would be raining later on in the day and so even though it was…
A walk up to the allotment in the afternoon showed that following the recent cold and windy weather…
The first lot of radish were sown at the beginning of March, then instead of being taken up…
Let us not get over excited, all the talk by the media of relaxing lock down (have they…
Three weeks, or is it four weeks, it might even be five weeks – it seems like a…
It is sunny and inviting outside, the clocks have changed, it seems an ideal morning to look at…
I think of it as you “can” go to the allotment, but I think “should” you? I also…
We walked up to the allotment in the afternoon armed with bags of seed potatoes and onion sets.…
With all the bad weather since Christmas it is hard to believe it is time to start doing…
I had a bit of a list to work through, it was the first non-cold, non-raining morning for…
Everyone likes spreadsheets and numbers, here is 2019 in numbers… These figures are from the year’s worth of…
Due to commitments and weather I have not been to the plot for a number of weeks. A…
January can be pretty brutal when it wants to be, while at the same time it can be…
A quick month-by-month summary of 2019…. January planted more garlic, possibly a bit late as quite a lot…
Sowed six direct in the ground and they all came up, unfortunately mice found them and nibbled off…
Traditionally on the shortest day of the year to be pulled on the longest. I planted in November…
Not quite, chopping branches off of trees instead, ones that come over from the field and shadow the…
A “quick visit” to get some parsnips and things, turned out to be a couple of hours instead.…
A “quick” visit in the afternoon to fetch some bits for tea and to dig up the Christmas…
I picked up a number of bags of what looked like very fresh manure that has been delivered…
Just quickly popping up to get some bits for tea, and how about burning some of the wood…
In less than a week we have broad beans! Not quite ready to pick, infact only just showing…
The main lot of winter planting is complete now with the planting of broad beans (Aquadulce Claudia). I’ve…
I have normally waited until just before Christmas to plant garlic and left it for six months. This…
We use a lot of onions and so I thought I would have a go at putting in…
A random browse on Freegle and I noticed someone down the road from us was giving away a…