Finally a sunny day
It’s either been raining, or windy, or raining and windy… today was the first day for a while…
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Picking pumpkins
Time to start tidying up and prepping things. I pulled the last lot of carrots which got us…
Autumn already?
It certainly feels like it, shorter evenings and colder mornings. Have we eaten breakfast in the garden for…
Parsnips in the wind
Blue sky and sun but very windy. Coming from the south and so hitting the plot head on.…
Sowing seeds in the Garden
We also planted out some lettuce plants that have been growing in pots for the last month. I…
Another year of green tomatoes
It’s been windy, cold and raining… we escaped out for a walk up to the plot, and it…
More potatoes and onions
Overwintered onion seed plants are doing quite well on the plot although are noticeably behind the sets, which…
So much rhubarb
We have been busy at home these last couple of weeks and I knew while we were absent…
Sprouts, Swedes and Woodchip
Due to commitments and weather I have not been to the plot for a number of weeks. A…
Parsnips, Poo, and Frost
January can be pretty brutal when it wants to be, while at the same time it can be…
Pathways and weeding
It was interesting to see if there had been any damage at the plot following two days of…
Night of the Onions
An evening visit with Tom to pull all the onions now they had died back. This included 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…
Sprouts, leeks, decking
Tom and myself went for a quick visit on Friday night to see how the marigolds we planted…
Dig dig digging
It said it would be a sunny day and it was, which was ideal for the allotment and…
The Path Plods On
I thought it would take just a couple of days to get the path finished once I had…
Spring has sprung!
I know spring does not start until the 20th March, but we can forgive a day or two…. …
We start the path…
With the waste wood off Freecycle we started laying the new wooden path. Taking up the paving I…
Free wood leads to new project
I plan to make a start on this over the weekend. The other week we managed to pick…
Slow slow start to 2011
Lots of promise for 2011 but yet any to be lived out. So far work in the garden…
Square Foot Garden in the Snow
Not a lot going in here, infact the winter had seen the beds being used as a cat…
Wet and Damp – and some Fails
It has been very wet and damp these last weeks and now the sun is much lower during…
Spooky Spiders
September means it is spider month, in the garden and in the house you bump into spiders all…
September 2010
Probably the first and last chance to cut the grass before winter sets in. By this time only…
Garage Doors Finally Painted
All the constant August rain has been my fault. At the beginning of the month we started work…
Courgette Flowers -but no courgettes yet
We have two plants, one taking up four squares in the beds and the other on its own…
Blackberry Picking
Around the back of the house we have a small track which runs along the back of everyone’s…
Work starts on garage door
You get used to looking at the same thing every day and it is only when you look…
Broad Beans and Onions
I have never tried growing during the winter period, so thought now would be a good time while…
Spring Onion Cats!
I took good precautions when starting out with the Square Foot Garden as I knew normally a cat…
Decking Renewed
Due to this and that, I never treated the decking with anything last year, something which is normally…
Pulling out grass
A long long term project all this, to tart up the side at the front. It started a…
Berries in the front garden
Hidden behind the planks of wood (a future project… one day) are the wild strawberries and the tayberry…
Wild Flowers
The wild flowers in the front garden grass have all come out once again and made the front…
Found some sunflowers
A bit late, like everything else… but I found some old sunflower seed and thought I would give…
Sweetcorn come out for the sun
It is planned to have all these planted out this weekend and so all this week I have…
Potato Growth
These are actually looking quite good and with the rain and the sun these last days they are…
Loads of planting been going on
No time to “do the paperwork” but planting has been going on loads since the weekend. Yet to…
Snapshot June 2010
June has come rather fast! We have had a lot of sun this last week while we have…
Seedlings in the Utility Room
From our cookery book for pumpkin tart we had four seeds to make a start (long term cooking!) …
Pre-Sprouting Seeds
A tale of two seeds, or infact two lots of seeds. Two different squares were planted with the…
Garden Planning
This is where it all happens and one day I might even finish the spreadsheet! Currently it is…
Back from the Dead
I thought we had seen the last of our passion flower when after the winter it just stayed…
Potato Sacks Now Full
They just grow and grow, the sacks are now completely full, all that is left is to water…
Onion Sets starting off
On time… the late planted onion sets are starting to show signs of sprouting. The weather has been…
Sprouting Seeds
I have never thought of doing this before until I read about it and really it makes a…
Sweetcorn planted in two different ways
Do not be alarmed, I know too well that it is cutting it a bit fine to start…
14 Days Later… We Have a Carrot!
For this Square Foot Gardening I am keep plans up-to-date on a spreadsheet, something I may share at…
Red Onions Planted 2010
A bit late for doing this, but I saw red onion sets for sale at Wilkinsons and so…
Square Foot Bed Two Mixed
It was been mostly cold and wet these last days which has meant we had not been out…