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Climbing trees, again

SteveSeptember 16, 2020September 16, 2020

Our Wednesday evening visits to the plot with Tom continue, helped a lot by me finishing work a…

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Planting peas and beans

SteveSeptember 13, 2020

The first lot of planting at the plot for a while, peas and broad beans both a variety…

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Prepping Beds

SteveSeptember 5, 2020

There is not a lot going on at the plot, it’s all happening in the garden at home…

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Using our own compost

SteveAugust 31, 2020

Part of the idea of tidying up the compost area was to actually empty out the compost so…

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Starting to Tidy

SteveAugust 26, 2020

It has been on the list for months, tidying up the area around the compost bins. We still…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.…

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Watering and tidying

SteveAugust 2, 2020

Mostly this week we have been watering, either the garden with the water butt, or visits to the…

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Podcast

SteveJuly 30, 2020July 30, 2020

It was a good to catch up with Richard of The Veg Grower Podcast the other evening, on…

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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…

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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…

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Leeks and netting

SteveJuly 15, 2020

Breakfast outside in the sun, by the evening it seemed cold, dark, and back to winter once again.…

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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…

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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…

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Problem with wind…

SteveJuly 5, 2020

Monday last week it started and it has not stopped, wind is a bit of a problem. The…

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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.…

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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…

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Tidying

SteveJune 22, 2020

A lot of focus has been made on the garden, and for good reason. Everything is busy growing…

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Rain – Sun – Fruit

SteveJune 21, 2020

A lot of rain, a lot of sun, meaning a lot of growing has been happening, in particular…

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Cutting down trees

SteveJune 15, 2020

Maybe not the whole tree but a certain amount of branches had to go from the trees that…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Eating radish

SteveMay 10, 2020

The first lot of radish were sown at the beginning of March, then instead of being taken up…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Potatoes and Onions

SteveMarch 22, 2020

We walked up to the allotment in the afternoon armed with bags of seed potatoes and onion sets.…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Planting (more) Garlic

SteveDecember 21, 2019

Traditionally on the shortest day of the year to be pulled on the longest. I planted in November…

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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…

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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.…

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Sprouts and Potatoes

SteveNovember 30, 2019

A “quick” visit in the afternoon to fetch some bits for tea and to dig up the Christmas…

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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…

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Fires and cabbages

SteveNovember 10, 2019

Just quickly popping up to get some bits for tea, and how about burning some of the wood…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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