
Day of the carrots – and radish
We investigated the carrots last week, and they didn’t look too bad, today with picked a load more…
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We investigated the carrots last week, and they didn’t look too bad, today with picked a load more…
Not much on the list of things to do this morning, so I generally pottered about and weeded. …
It’s dark in the evenings now which means our mid week evening visits have probably come to an…
The Christmas potatoes had all come up and so I filled in the trench that they are planted…
We went away for just the weekend, but when we came back the plot looked a lot different,…
A quick visit this evening as it was Wednesday, we had a small list of things to do…
I don’t like cabbage, but I’m determined to like it by the end of winter as we are…
After all the prep, this morning I planted the potatoes that might just do something in time for…
Could this be our last mid week evening visit, there is not much daylight left in the evenings…
Some serious rain over the last couple of days, I know only too well as I was cycling…
This time last week it was windy and rainy, just for the day; early start today before the…
It did finally rain, for a whole day, which was nice. Then, during the night the wind and…
We nearly got through July without a spot of rain, parts of the country seemed to have been…
Just a quick visit this morning to get in some early morning watering, although ‘quick’ is an interesting…
I was actually quite excited and had waited all day, this evening we would lift all the onions…
Hot summer days means people are on their plots early in the morning, previous times it was just…
Maybe I have left it a bit late to plant the kale plants out from their pots in…
We shall all surely die, it hasn’t rained for years (or maybe just days/weeks) and the prospect of…
Plant on the shortest day, harvest on the longest day – in order to keep to this we…
Tom and myself went for a quick visit on Friday night to see how the marigolds we planted…
We sowed seed and nothing happened, so we sowed some more, not much happened. We did this on…
The calabrese has been hardening off outside in pots at home for a good month now, I have…
Not us, but something has, nothing major but a lot of nibbling of strawberries, rocket, french and runner…
Long curly stems stared to appear on the garlic which I thought must be it starting to flower. …
Wednesday evening me and Tom go to the plot to weed, water, and generally potter about. This week…
Eight years ago I finally met “the mushroom man”, the mystery person in Horam who I had gone…
Tomatoes and peppers by the window, turning our bedroom into a green house. I’m still not sure what…
On Wednesday evening we had complete plants, by Saturday morning something had spent some time nibbling. I noticed…
An evening trip with Tom to check the state of the wigwams and to do some watering. Since…
Bamboo canes were hard to find, they had a Costa coffee shop but the first garden centre was…
Time to play with the worms again in our wormery which must be nearly 20 years old and…
The sprouts and the calabrese that have been in small pots on the window sill for the last…
Winter rain and winds on Monday, mid year warmth and sun by the bank holiday weekend. I wondered…
Broad beans planted in pots indoors over the last weeks have been wanting to be outside for for…
It seems like it is the middle of summer, with temperatures that has got the Daily Mail all…
The plastic sheeting that has covered the plot since around Christmas time was fully removed today showing for…
We have planted some seeds indoors and others under cover of fleece outside on the plot – see First…
A quick visit this weekend to make sure all was ok on the plot. I spotted not only…
Easter means potato planting time, and it might as well mean onion set planting time too. On the…
Rain all weekend but none of it ever came, resulting in quite pleasant weather and time spent both…
It’s been a “snow day”, or as I’m no longer a child I can say it’s “been snowing…
I picked up some strawberries the other week and this weekend I was going to plant them in…
Got up and it was raining…. waited an hour and it was still raining, so I decided to…
While the country is under metres and metres of snow, in the south we are just about coping…
The final bit of pruning, this time the blackcurrant bushes, it will be interesting to see how they…
A break in the constant cold, wind and rain, I arrived early and spent a long time pruning…
I’ve decided that as long as it continues to rain every day of the week it is simply…
There is still half the plot to dig over from grass, but with a week of rain and…
It said it would be a sunny day and it was, which was ideal for the allotment and…
Been waiting for weeks to go back and cover the plot in the plastic sheeting we bought before…