5th January 2020 The first expense for a while in the shape of bags of spent mushroom compost.…

31st December 2019 Just bringing back ingredients for soup for later on in the day… I’ve now nearly…

24th December 2019 A family visit to the plot to fetch veg for Christmas day. The highlights were…

10th December 2019 It is all about leeks and sprouts, and parsnips. I found some more coloured carrots…

3rd December 2019 It’s all about quick visits in the cold, rain, and mud. Winter is nearly here…

26th November 2019 A quick visit to collect food for tea, which meant taking home the first lot…

19th November 2019 Money wise there is a big drop suddenly in November, but it is more because…

12th November 2019 Just picking vegetables for tea and I came home with a nice long parsnip and…

5th November 2019 A quick visit to tidy up and bring home carrots and some ‘leaves’ for tea.…

29th October 2019 The first ever pulling of a celeriac plant, and eating afterwards. The verdict is a…

17th October 2019 The week of the green tomatoes, this must be the last pickings of tomatoes. I’ve…

8th October 2019 Over 1kg of tomatoes, stripping the plants of all I could find (leaving one or…

1st October 2019 No visit to the allotment this week, but I did manage to pick some tomatoes…

24th September There is noticeably a lot less to pick each week now, although tomatoes have liked the…

17th September We have run out of new cucumbers meaning tomatoes have replaced them for the big crop…

10th September . Lots of beetroot with the idea that I will pickle some of them as currently…

3rd September Not much this week as we have been away, but I knew there would be a…

27th August Finally we have had tomatoes, all it needed was some actual warm and sunny days and…

20th August After the week of the cucumbers… they came back for another week – I’ve been giving…

13th August Last visit I picked all the cucumbers I could see, today there were 13 new ones…

30th July Cucumbers all over the place, each time we visit there is a load more and it…

23th July I’ve been watching the onions slowly dying back over the last month and each time thinking…

16th July I wasn’t sure if the peas were ready last week, I was pretty sure they were…

9th July The week of the potatoes, we dug them all up, dried them off, and now they…

2nd July The over winter onions were not planned, someone gave them to us late in the season…

25th June The week of the strawberries, nearly 1kg of them and a lot of them didn’t make…

18th June Our first lot of potatoes and constant supply of strawberries and broad beans. I won’t forget…

11th June Not much harvested due to going away, but we have had a full punnet of strawberries…

4th June It’s about time we mentioned the chilies growing at home, we have been picking them this…

28th May So many large broad bean pods to pick, our first lot of strawberries, large and full…

21st May Over wintered broad beans filling out and now getting large beans from pickings. Rhubarb is hold…

14th May The last lot of the March sown radish, which had grown a bit large over the…

22nd April The last of the leeks, pulled up the remaining lot. The first radish! Seed compost that…