June 2025 No records broken for temperature in June although the heatwave alert did trigger near the end…

May 2025 Just a normal May with the weather, although a new record for the coldest May on…

April 2025 Another record breaking warm month, the end of April was like summer time as the temperate…

March 2025 March was both hot and cold. It matched 2023 as the coldest recorded at 1.1c and…

February 2025 I have not been keeping up with harvest stats too well this year, here is February…

January 2025 A new year and not a lot going on at the plot, not much to harvest…

November 2024 Not much going on at the moment, strong wind and rain for most if the month.…

October 2024 Big outgoings as it was time to pay for another year of the plot, now £70…

September 2024 Within the garden I’m currently only able to record the temperature which shows no records were…

August 2024 It certainly felt like August and it seemed autumn had come early during the second half…

July 2024 The good news is that we have just got hold of a rain meter, so once…

June 2024 June turned into the hottest month of the year and the hottest June since 2021 in…

May 2024 The final leeks pulled, a mix of mostly small leeks but much better than the nearly…

April 2024 After last year where we harvested next to no leeks, disappointing from one of our “big…

March 2024 A month of spending money, on seed potatoes (normal) and three new gooseberry bushes (a one…

14th January 2024 I wasn’t sure what to expect from the parsnips as they had struggled all year.…

November 2023 . 2023 B/F £271.42 IN OUT courgette – 0.196g £0.59 turnip – 467g £1.87 swede –…

31st October 2023 A month of hot sunny days and then dark rainy days… I was able to…

30th September 2023 The last of the tomatoes, another good 1kg+ and that’s it all done for the…

13th September 2023 Mostly tomatoes, the late hot weather has allowed them to ripen and we have been…

5th September 2023 I remember the year that we had so many cucumbers that I was giving them…

29th August 2023 We missed out on a lot of raspberries that came and went while we were…

24th August 2023 The good news has been the massive harvest of french and runner beans. The less…

13th August 2023 There are some harvests we did a while ago but have since been undercover drying,…

30th July 2023 Now all the peas have been picked it’s time for the french beans. Two massive…

19th July 2023 We started to pull spring onions right up until the french beans started to cover…

8th July 2023 Another month has gone by without talking about harvests…. although I have been logging them…

20th June 2023 Too many radish all appearing at the same time and lots going to seed, it’s…

30th May 2023 Not all in one go, this is for the month of May which for some…

29th April 2023 Much of the same, rhubarb and purple sprouting…. 2023 B/F £33.74 IN OUT purple sprouting…

19th April 2023 We gave away loads of rhubarb, big thick sticks, we could had picked a lot…

10th April2023 Purple sprouting is so deceptive, you think it’s just all leaf and never going to do…

26th March 2023 We have had two pickings of rhubarb, the plant has exploded over the last couple…

25th February 2023 Just a small picking of sprouts. I wish I had kept a bit more of…

8th February 2023 The parsnips have all been dug up, cleaned, cut up and put in the freezer.…

24th January 2023 The swedes came and went, we hardly noticed them this year. The seedlings came to…

8th January 2023 2022 was not a year for carrots on the plot, not many germinated and by…

28th December 2022 This could be the last harvest of 2022, and not much harvested these last couple…

29th November 2022 I grew the beetroot on the plot just to fill up space, we already had…

23rd November 2022 It’s mostly rain and windy, heavy rain and really strong wind… for nearly a month…

18th October 2022 It’s been a heavy week, everything is measured in kilos. The beetroot is past it’s…

13th October 2022 That is it for tomatoes this year, all plants have been pulled out and anything…

4th October 2022 One last lot of runner beans, which was a bit of a surprise. There are…

29th September 2022 Picking as many tomatoes as we can before the days get too short and cold.…

20th September 2022 No surprise that we have been picking (red) tomatoes, but a bit of a surprise…

13th September 2022 Tomatoes are still turning red, some of them are splitting but that doesn’t seem to…

7th September 2022 The weather was about to turn and so it seemed a good time to dig…

26th August 2022 I’ve been happy leaving the potatoes in the ground all the time it’s been really…

19th August 2022 Borlotti beans are something we have never grown, it was only because we got sent…