Slowing down
Normally I spend a good hour weeding each week but today it was done in just five minutes,…
Category: allotment
Tidying up – autumn is coming
On Thursday you could still convince yourself it was summer, on Friday you knew that autumn would soon…
Tomatoes and Paths
They were saying it was going to be a really hot and sunny bank holiday weekend and so…
Swedes and potatoes
More wind, more rain means the runner beans have gone the same way as they did last year,…
Wind and Rain Damage?
There appears to actually be none apart from a snapped bean pole. After the load of wind and…
Pathways and weeding
It was interesting to see if there had been any damage at the plot following two days of…
Super Hot
The night time temperature was mid 20c and by the morning it was back up to 30. It…
Night of the Onions
An evening visit with Tom to pull all the onions now they had died back. This included the…
Night of the Peas
After the attack of the little black beetles the other month, the remaining carrots have survived under the…
Potatoes
We dug up the first half last week, this week we were late in the evening digging up…
Weekend of Fruit
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
All a bit behind, I’ve had sprout and calabrese plants under cover in pots really wanting to be…
Wind, Rain, Slugs, Flea Beetles?
We had only been away for a week but since then we had gone through various extreme seasons,…
Suddenly… everything needed planting
An attempt to empty the pots and plant out anything that looked like it would rather be in…
Celeriac and strawberries
Mid week afternoon visit and surprised how dry and needing a watering everything was. I gave everything a…
Planting Out
A super sunny weekend which promised likewise for the weekend but turned out not to be. That was…
Hailstones and sun
I thought it wise to wait until the afternoon when it said it would stop looking so miserable…
Stopping Birds
Last year we had two gooseberries before the birds found them and overnight stripped the bushes of everything,…
Hannah and leeks
The day before, I left (storm) Hannah alone at the plot while I transplanted seedlings into larger pots.…
Banking up potatoes
A super early start because it was forecast to be super hot all day, and because I thought…
Sow Sow Sow
It’s it not moving then I sowed it, if it wasn’t moving fast enough then I probably had…
Broad beans and radish
After sowing and putting outside undercover, one lot in the small plastic greenhouse and the other round the…
Seeds
Not much on the plot but lots of seed sowing at home, including: turnips calabrese peas cabbage Also…
Potatoes, onions and sowing seed
An early morning planting onions and potatoes, mixed with a bit of weeding. I put in millions of…
Just Pottering
There was no need to go to the plot, apart from to pull up some leeks as we…
Early Sowing 2019
I planted chili seeds last week and today they had come up and ready to be moved from…
Mulching Gooseberries
A sunny winters day with blue skies…. I didn’t have much need to go to the allotment but…
2018 – The Good & the Bad
A lot of different to last time when we had an allotment, in 2001 we took on a…
Sprouts and Wind…
While sunny, it was windy and the forecast was that it was going to get worse throughout the…
Put off for long enough
The idea of digging up all the raspberries, deep weeding, replanting raspberries through cardboard and mulch…. I’ve been…
Changed Plans
The idea this morning was to dig up all the raspberry canes, cover with cardboard and manure, then…
Just collecting bits for tea..
Yesterday I picked up 15 bags of manure which I hope to spread over the remainder of the…
A bit more garlic
We succeeded in growing garlic last year and we used each bulb we dug up, so going from…
Keeping warm with a fire
Not so many plots allow you to have fires which is a pity. We had plenty of woody…
Collecting Food
It felt good during summer to be picking things we had grown and making full meals out of…
Garlic and Potatoes
An escape for myself and Tom from the frustrations of computers and technology, we went off to plant…
The Morning After
I got up early and waited until it was light enough to go out, but by that time…
Tidying raspberries & first ever swede
A quick visit between it stopping raining and it getting dark, I thought I would start tidying up…
One Year – celebrating with sprouts
The two exciting things for today was to see the sprouts, although small, are very much viable and…
Muddy veg
Rain and drizzle, darkness and damp – so nothing much planned other than collecting bits for tea. We…
Winter Veg
Just pulling and digging various winter veg this weekend, a quick visit as the sun was setting on…
Overwintering broad beans
A forecast of wind, rain and cold meant I wasn’t planning to do much, but it turned out…
Pottering and Podcasts
No real plan apart from taking up some of the bags of free manure and cardboard boxes. I…
No more raised beds
The clocks have changed, it is cold, wet and windy…. The plan today was to remove the last…
Goodbye runner beans
We didn’t have much luck with runner beans, but they did have a bit of a second life…
The day of the turnips
A quick visit to mulch around the rest of the current bushes with cardboard and manure. There…
A bit of No Dig
The excitement of last week’s manure find as bought to conclusion today with actually using it on the…
Poo
I was going to drive over to see the mushroom man in Yapton and buy some bags of…
Keeping Records
Tracking data and planning is sometimes more fun than doing, watching plans work out is even better; I…
Rain and Rust
First day of autumn and the first morning of a dark cloudy cold rainy day as if it…