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…
Pathways and weeding SteveAugust 3, 2019April 5, 2020 It was interesting to see if there had been any damage at the plot following two days of…
Super Hot SteveJuly 27, 2019 The night time temperature was mid 20c and by the morning it was back up to 30. It…
Night of the Onions SteveJuly 21, 2019April 5, 2020 An evening visit with Tom to pull all the onions now they had died back. This included the…
Night of the Peas SteveJuly 13, 2019July 14, 2019 After the attack of the little black beetles the other month, the remaining carrots have survived under the…
Potatoes SteveJuly 6, 2019 We dug up the first half last week, this week we were late in the evening digging up…
Weekend of Fruit SteveJune 30, 2019 The hot weather has helped with the soft fruit, which I had planned to pick a load off…
Garlic and rain than lots of sun SteveJune 24, 2019 All a bit behind, I’ve had sprout and calabrese plants under cover in pots really wanting to be…
Wind, Rain, Slugs, Flea Beetles? SteveJune 15, 2019June 15, 2019 We had only been away for a week but since then we had gone through various extreme seasons,…
Suddenly… everything needed planting SteveJune 2, 2019 An attempt to empty the pots and plant out anything that looked like it would rather be in…
Celeriac and strawberries SteveMay 27, 2019 Mid week afternoon visit and surprised how dry and needing a watering everything was. I gave everything a…
Planting Out SteveMay 19, 2019 A super sunny weekend which promised likewise for the weekend but turned out not to be. That was…
Hailstones and sun SteveMay 11, 2019May 11, 2019 I thought it wise to wait until the afternoon when it said it would stop looking so miserable…
Stopping Birds SteveMay 6, 2019May 21, 2019 Last year we had two gooseberries before the birds found them and overnight stripped the bushes of everything,…
Hannah and leeks SteveApril 28, 2019April 28, 2019 The day before, I left (storm) Hannah alone at the plot while I transplanted seedlings into larger pots.…
Banking up potatoes SteveApril 20, 2019April 20, 2019 A super early start because it was forecast to be super hot all day, and because I thought…
Sow Sow Sow SteveApril 14, 2019April 14, 2019 It’s it not moving then I sowed it, if it wasn’t moving fast enough then I probably had…
Broad beans and radish SteveApril 6, 2019April 6, 2019 After sowing and putting outside undercover, one lot in the small plastic greenhouse and the other round the…
Seeds SteveMarch 30, 2019March 30, 2019 Not much on the plot but lots of seed sowing at home, including: turnips calabrese peas cabbage Also…
Potatoes, onions and sowing seed SteveMarch 24, 2019March 24, 2019 An early morning planting onions and potatoes, mixed with a bit of weeding. I put in millions of…
Just Pottering SteveMarch 9, 2019March 10, 2019 There was no need to go to the plot, apart from to pull up some leeks as we…
Early Sowing 2019 SteveMarch 2, 2019March 2, 2019 I planted chili seeds last week and today they had come up and ready to be moved from…
Mulching Gooseberries SteveFebruary 23, 2019February 23, 2019 A sunny winters day with blue skies…. I didn’t have much need to go to the allotment but…
2018 – The Good & the Bad SteveFebruary 18, 2019February 18, 2019 A lot of different to last time when we had an allotment, in 2001 we took on a…
Sprouts and Wind… SteveFebruary 9, 2019February 9, 2019 While sunny, it was windy and the forecast was that it was going to get worse throughout the…
Put off for long enough SteveJanuary 26, 2019April 5, 2020 The idea of digging up all the raspberries, deep weeding, replanting raspberries through cardboard and mulch…. I’ve been…
Changed Plans SteveJanuary 13, 2019January 13, 2019 The idea this morning was to dig up all the raspberry canes, cover with cardboard and manure, then…
Just collecting bits for tea.. SteveJanuary 6, 2019January 6, 2019 Yesterday I picked up 15 bags of manure which I hope to spread over the remainder of the…
A bit more garlic SteveJanuary 1, 2019January 1, 2019 We succeeded in growing garlic last year and we used each bulb we dug up, so going from…
Keeping warm with a fire SteveDecember 27, 2018December 27, 2018 Not so many plots allow you to have fires which is a pity. We had plenty of woody…
Collecting Food SteveDecember 24, 2018March 11, 2019 It felt good during summer to be picking things we had grown and making full meals out of…
Garlic and Potatoes SteveDecember 20, 2018March 11, 2019 An escape for myself and Tom from the frustrations of computers and technology, we went off to plant…
The Morning After SteveDecember 16, 2018March 11, 2019 I got up early and waited until it was light enough to go out, but by that time…
Tidying raspberries & first ever swede SteveDecember 9, 2018December 9, 2018 A quick visit between it stopping raining and it getting dark, I thought I would start tidying up…
One Year – celebrating with sprouts SteveDecember 2, 2018December 2, 2018 The two exciting things for today was to see the sprouts, although small, are very much viable and…
Muddy veg SteveNovember 24, 2018 Rain and drizzle, darkness and damp – so nothing much planned other than collecting bits for tea. We…
Winter Veg SteveNovember 18, 2018 Just pulling and digging various winter veg this weekend, a quick visit as the sun was setting on…
Overwintering broad beans SteveNovember 11, 2018November 11, 2018 A forecast of wind, rain and cold meant I wasn’t planning to do much, but it turned out…
Pottering and Podcasts SteveNovember 4, 2018November 4, 2018 No real plan apart from taking up some of the bags of free manure and cardboard boxes. I…
No more raised beds SteveOctober 28, 2018 The clocks have changed, it is cold, wet and windy…. The plan today was to remove the last…
Goodbye runner beans SteveOctober 22, 2018October 22, 2018 We didn’t have much luck with runner beans, but they did have a bit of a second life…
The day of the turnips SteveOctober 14, 2018 A quick visit to mulch around the rest of the current bushes with cardboard and manure. There…
A bit of No Dig SteveOctober 7, 2018 The excitement of last week’s manure find as bought to conclusion today with actually using it on the…
Poo SteveSeptember 30, 2018September 30, 2018 I was going to drive over to see the mushroom man in Yapton and buy some bags of…
Keeping Records SteveSeptember 29, 2018 Tracking data and planning is sometimes more fun than doing, watching plans work out is even better; I…
Rain and Rust SteveSeptember 23, 2018 First day of autumn and the first morning of a dark cloudy cold rainy day as if it…
Day of the carrots – and radish SteveSeptember 16, 2018September 16, 2018 We investigated the carrots last week, and they didn’t look too bad, today with picked a load more…