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Parsnips in the wind
Blue sky and sun but very windy. Coming from the south and so hitting the plot head on.…
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Blue sky and sun but very windy. Coming from the south and so hitting the plot head on.…
We also planted out some lettuce plants that have been growing in pots for the last month. I…
It’s been windy, cold and raining… we escaped out for a walk up to the plot, and it…
Overwintered onion seed plants are doing quite well on the plot although are noticeably behind the sets, which…
We have been busy at home these last couple of weeks and I knew while we were absent…
Due to commitments and weather I have not been to the plot for a number of weeks. A…
January can be pretty brutal when it wants to be, while at the same time it can be…
It was interesting to see if there had been any damage at the plot following two days of…
An evening visit with Tom to pull all the onions now they had died back. This included the…
The idea of digging up all the raspberries, deep weeding, replanting raspberries through cardboard and mulch…. I’ve been…
Tom and myself went for a quick visit on Friday night to see how the marigolds we planted…
It said it would be a sunny day and it was, which was ideal for the allotment and…
I thought it would take just a couple of days to get the path finished once I had…
I know spring does not start until the 20th March, but we can forgive a day or two…. …
With the waste wood off Freecycle we started laying the new wooden path. Taking up the paving I…
I plan to make a start on this over the weekend. The other week we managed to pick…
Lots of promise for 2011 but yet any to be lived out. So far work in the garden…
Not a lot going in here, infact the winter had seen the beds being used as a cat…
It has been very wet and damp these last weeks and now the sun is much lower during…
September means it is spider month, in the garden and in the house you bump into spiders all…
Probably the first and last chance to cut the grass before winter sets in. By this time only…
All the constant August rain has been my fault. At the beginning of the month we started work…
We have two plants, one taking up four squares in the beds and the other on its own…
Around the back of the house we have a small track which runs along the back of everyone’s…
You get used to looking at the same thing every day and it is only when you look…
I have never tried growing during the winter period, so thought now would be a good time while…
I took good precautions when starting out with the Square Foot Garden as I knew normally a cat…
Due to this and that, I never treated the decking with anything last year, something which is normally…
A long long term project all this, to tart up the side at the front. It started a…
Hidden behind the planks of wood (a future project… one day) are the wild strawberries and the tayberry…
The wild flowers in the front garden grass have all come out once again and made the front…
A bit late, like everything else… but I found some old sunflower seed and thought I would give…
It is planned to have all these planted out this weekend and so all this week I have…
These are actually looking quite good and with the rain and the sun these last days they are…
No time to “do the paperwork” but planting has been going on loads since the weekend. Yet to…
June has come rather fast! We have had a lot of sun this last week while we have…
From our cookery book for pumpkin tart we had four seeds to make a start (long term cooking!) …
A tale of two seeds, or infact two lots of seeds. Two different squares were planted with the…
This is where it all happens and one day I might even finish the spreadsheet! Currently it is…
I thought we had seen the last of our passion flower when after the winter it just stayed…
They just grow and grow, the sacks are now completely full, all that is left is to water…
On time… the late planted onion sets are starting to show signs of sprouting. The weather has been…
I have never thought of doing this before until I read about it and really it makes a…
Do not be alarmed, I know too well that it is cutting it a bit fine to start…
For this Square Foot Gardening I am keep plans up-to-date on a spreadsheet, something I may share at…
A bit late for doing this, but I saw red onion sets for sale at Wilkinsons and so…
It was been mostly cold and wet these last days which has meant we had not been out…
The cats have kept off the potato bags and green shoots are starting to be seen. Tonight we…
After a week of sunny days we seem to have started a phase of cold and rain, which…
Tom and Jack have a cooking book which is quite clever (given to them from their Aunty Christine…