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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…

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Carrots and paths

SteveSeptember 9, 2018September 9, 2018

Not much on the list of things to do this morning, so I generally pottered about and weeded. …

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Last mid week evening visit?

SteveSeptember 5, 2018

It’s dark in the evenings now which means our mid week evening visits have probably come to an…

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Millions of Tomatoes

SteveSeptember 2, 2018

The Christmas potatoes had all come up and so I filled in the trench that they are planted…

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How long were we away?

SteveAugust 29, 2018August 29, 2018

We went away for just the weekend, but when we came back the plot looked a lot different,…

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All of a sudden… courgettes

SteveAugust 22, 2018

A quick visit this evening as it was Wednesday, we had a small list of things to do…

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Cabbage cabbage cabbage

SteveAugust 19, 2018August 19, 2018

I don’t like cabbage, but I’m determined to like it by the end of winter as we are…

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Christmas Potatoes

SteveAugust 18, 2018

After all the prep, this morning I planted the potatoes that might just do something in time for…

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Ready for Potatoes

SteveAugust 15, 2018

Could this be our last mid week evening visit, there is not much daylight left in the evenings…

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Turnips and Beetroot

SteveAugust 12, 2018August 12, 2018

Some serious rain over the last couple of days, I know only too well as I was cycling…

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Sprouts get a new home

SteveAugust 5, 2018

This time last week it was windy and rainy, just for the day;  early start today before the…

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Wind and rain

SteveAugust 2, 2018August 2, 2018

It did finally rain, for a whole day, which was nice.  Then, during the night the wind and…

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A small bit of rain

SteveJuly 28, 2018July 28, 2018

We nearly got through July without a spot of rain, parts of the country seemed to have been…

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Spotted: Calabrese

SteveJuly 22, 2018

Just a quick visit this morning to get in some early morning watering, although ‘quick’ is an interesting…

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The night of the onions

SteveJuly 18, 2018

I was actually quite excited and had waited all day, this evening we would lift all the onions…

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Hose Pipes and Talking to People

SteveJuly 14, 2018

Hot summer days means people are on their plots early in the morning, previous times it was just…

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Late evening kale

SteveJuly 11, 2018

Maybe I have left it a bit late to plant the kale plants out from their pots in…

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A life with no Water

SteveJuly 8, 2018

We shall all surely die, it hasn’t rained for years (or maybe just days/weeks) and the prospect of…

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Garlic Harvest

SteveJune 24, 2018June 24, 2018

Plant on the shortest day, harvest on the longest day – in order to keep to this we…

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Sprouts, leeks, decking

SteveJune 16, 2018April 5, 2020

Tom and myself went for a quick visit on Friday night to see how the marigolds we planted…

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Leeks all over the place

SteveJune 14, 2018June 14, 2018

We sowed seed and nothing happened, so we sowed some more, not much happened.   We did this on…

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Brasica netting on the cheap

SteveJune 10, 2018

The calabrese has been hardening off outside in pots at home for a good month now, I have…

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Who’s been eating?

SteveJune 6, 2018

Not us, but something has, nothing major but a lot of nibbling of strawberries, rocket, french and runner…

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First harvest – garlic scapes

SteveJune 3, 2018

Long curly stems stared to appear on the garlic which I thought must be it starting to flower. …

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Midweek evening – no need to water

SteveMay 31, 2018May 31, 2018

Wednesday evening me and Tom go to the plot to weed, water, and generally potter about.   This week…

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Found Mushrooms – life is complete!

SteveMay 27, 2018May 27, 2018

Eight years ago I finally met “the mushroom man”, the mystery person in Horam who I had gone…

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Indoor progress

SteveMay 21, 2018May 21, 2018

Tomatoes and peppers by the window, turning our bedroom into a green house.  I’m still not sure what…

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Going undercover

SteveMay 19, 2018May 19, 2018

On Wednesday evening we had complete plants, by Saturday morning something had spent some time nibbling.  I noticed…

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Evening watering and gooseberry spotting

SteveMay 16, 2018May 16, 2018

An evening trip with Tom to check the state of the wigwams and to do some watering.   Since…

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Wigwams

SteveMay 13, 2018May 13, 2018

Bamboo canes were hard to find, they had a Costa coffee shop but the first garden centre was…

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We have new worms

SteveMay 10, 2018

Time to play with the worms again in our wormery which must be nearly 20 years old and…

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Re-potting Seedlings

SteveMay 6, 2018

The sprouts and the calabrese that have been in small pots on the window sill for the last…

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A Hot Day

SteveMay 5, 2018

Winter rain and winds on Monday, mid year warmth and sun by the bank holiday weekend.   I wondered…

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Broad beans and seedlings

SteveApril 28, 2018

Broad beans planted in pots indoors over the last weeks have been wanting to be outside for for…

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Sowing the seeds

SteveApril 22, 2018

It seems like it is the middle of summer, with temperatures that has got the Daily Mail all…

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Uncovered

SteveApril 14, 2018April 14, 2018

The plastic sheeting that has covered the plot since around Christmas time was fully removed today showing for…

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Indoor Seedlings Progress

SteveApril 11, 2018

We have planted some seeds indoors and others under cover of fleece outside on the plot – see First…

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Signs of sprouts and onions

SteveApril 8, 2018

A quick visit this weekend to make sure all was ok on the plot.  I spotted not only…

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Potatoes and Onions

SteveApril 1, 2018April 1, 2018

Easter means potato planting time, and it might as well mean onion set planting time too.   On the…

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Strawberries and sowing undercover

SteveMarch 25, 2018

Rain all weekend but none of it ever came, resulting in quite pleasant weather and time spent both…

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First Sowing – indoors

SteveMarch 18, 2018

It’s been a “snow day”, or as I’m no longer a child I can say it’s “been snowing…

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Last raised bed

SteveMarch 17, 2018

I picked up some strawberries the other week and this weekend I was going to plant them in…

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Getting Muddy

SteveMarch 10, 2018March 10, 2018

Got up and it was raining….  waited an hour and it was still raining, so I decided to…

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Last bit of digging

SteveMarch 3, 2018

While the country is under metres and metres of snow, in the south we are just about coping…

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Blackcurrants and burning

SteveFebruary 24, 2018February 25, 2018

The final bit of pruning, this time the blackcurrant bushes, it will be interesting to see how they…

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Raspberries.. raspberries

SteveFebruary 17, 2018

A break in the constant cold, wind and rain, I arrived early and spent a long time pruning…

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Pruning Raspberries Part One

SteveJanuary 28, 2018

I’ve decided that as long as it continues to rain every day of the week it is simply…

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Gooseberries in the rain

SteveJanuary 20, 2018

There is still half the plot to dig over from grass, but with a week of rain and…

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Dig dig digging

SteveJanuary 14, 2018April 5, 2020

It said it would be a sunny day and it was, which was ideal for the allotment and…

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First day of no rain

SteveJanuary 6, 2018January 6, 2018

Been waiting for weeks to go back and cover the plot in the plastic sheeting we bought before…

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