Keeping Records
Tracking data and planning is sometimes more fun than doing, watching plans work out is even better; I…
Category: allotment
Rain and Rust
First day of autumn and the first morning of a dark cloudy cold rainy day as if it…
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…
Carrots and paths
Not much on the list of things to do this morning, so I generally pottered about and weeded. …
Last mid week evening visit?
It’s dark in the evenings now which means our mid week evening visits have probably come to an…
Millions of Tomatoes
The Christmas potatoes had all come up and so I filled in the trench that they are planted…
How long were we away?
We went away for just the weekend, but when we came back the plot looked a lot different,…
All of a sudden… courgettes
A quick visit this evening as it was Wednesday, we had a small list of things to do…
Cabbage cabbage cabbage
I don’t like cabbage, but I’m determined to like it by the end of winter as we are…
Christmas Potatoes
After all the prep, this morning I planted the potatoes that might just do something in time for…
Ready for Potatoes
Could this be our last mid week evening visit, there is not much daylight left in the evenings…
Turnips and Beetroot
Some serious rain over the last couple of days, I know only too well as I was cycling…
Sprouts get a new home
This time last week it was windy and rainy, just for the day; early start today before the…
Wind and rain
It did finally rain, for a whole day, which was nice. Then, during the night the wind and…
A small bit of rain
We nearly got through July without a spot of rain, parts of the country seemed to have been…
Spotted: Calabrese
Just a quick visit this morning to get in some early morning watering, although ‘quick’ is an interesting…
The night of the onions
I was actually quite excited and had waited all day, this evening we would lift all the onions…
Hose Pipes and Talking to People
Hot summer days means people are on their plots early in the morning, previous times it was just…
Late evening kale
Maybe I have left it a bit late to plant the kale plants out from their pots in…
A life with no Water
We shall all surely die, it hasn’t rained for years (or maybe just days/weeks) and the prospect of…
Garlic Harvest
Plant on the shortest day, harvest on the longest day – in order to keep to this we…
Sprouts, leeks, decking
Tom and myself went for a quick visit on Friday night to see how the marigolds we planted…
Leeks all over the place
We sowed seed and nothing happened, so we sowed some more, not much happened. We did this on…
Brasica netting on the cheap
The calabrese has been hardening off outside in pots at home for a good month now, I have…
Who’s been eating?
Not us, but something has, nothing major but a lot of nibbling of strawberries, rocket, french and runner…
First harvest – garlic scapes
Long curly stems stared to appear on the garlic which I thought must be it starting to flower. …
Midweek evening – no need to water
Wednesday evening me and Tom go to the plot to weed, water, and generally potter about. This week…
Found Mushrooms – life is complete!
Eight years ago I finally met “the mushroom man”, the mystery person in Horam who I had gone…
Indoor progress
Tomatoes and peppers by the window, turning our bedroom into a green house. I’m still not sure what…
Going undercover
On Wednesday evening we had complete plants, by Saturday morning something had spent some time nibbling. I noticed…
Evening watering and gooseberry spotting
An evening trip with Tom to check the state of the wigwams and to do some watering. Since…
Wigwams
Bamboo canes were hard to find, they had a Costa coffee shop but the first garden centre was…
We have new worms
Time to play with the worms again in our wormery which must be nearly 20 years old and…
Re-potting Seedlings
The sprouts and the calabrese that have been in small pots on the window sill for the last…
A Hot Day
Winter rain and winds on Monday, mid year warmth and sun by the bank holiday weekend. I wondered…
Broad beans and seedlings
Broad beans planted in pots indoors over the last weeks have been wanting to be outside for for…
Sowing the seeds
It seems like it is the middle of summer, with temperatures that has got the Daily Mail all…
Uncovered
The plastic sheeting that has covered the plot since around Christmas time was fully removed today showing for…
Indoor Seedlings Progress
We have planted some seeds indoors and others under cover of fleece outside on the plot – see First…
Signs of sprouts and onions
A quick visit this weekend to make sure all was ok on the plot. I spotted not only…
Potatoes and Onions
Easter means potato planting time, and it might as well mean onion set planting time too. On the…
Strawberries and sowing undercover
Rain all weekend but none of it ever came, resulting in quite pleasant weather and time spent both…
First Sowing – indoors
It’s been a “snow day”, or as I’m no longer a child I can say it’s “been snowing…
Last raised bed
I picked up some strawberries the other week and this weekend I was going to plant them in…
Getting Muddy
Got up and it was raining…. waited an hour and it was still raining, so I decided to…
Last bit of digging
While the country is under metres and metres of snow, in the south we are just about coping…
Blackcurrants and burning
The final bit of pruning, this time the blackcurrant bushes, it will be interesting to see how they…
Raspberries.. raspberries
A break in the constant cold, wind and rain, I arrived early and spent a long time pruning…
Pruning Raspberries Part One
I’ve decided that as long as it continues to rain every day of the week it is simply…
Gooseberries in the rain
There is still half the plot to dig over from grass, but with a week of rain and…