25th June 2022 It’s so nice to have a year with strawberries, we have missed them for the…

14th June 2022 Nice to see some strawberries turning red, even nicer that we are getting to a…

30th May 2022 We are racing against time to eat all the radish before they bolt. We have…

26th May 2022 Picking lots of radish. They have all gone now from the plot, but just in…

18th May 2022 Last year we didn’t really get any lettuce growing, it was eaten by slugs before…

3rd May 2022 The leeks are looking a bit past it, which they are really seeing as it’s…

26th April 2022 The same again…. it really must now be the last big picking of purple sprouting,…

19th April 2022 Much the same, although this is probably the last week we will have loads of…

12th April 2022 It will be a sad day when the purple sprouting finally stops providing, we are…

5th April 2022 Just a small harvest, a quick trip up to the plot to get bits for…

22th March 2022 I have noticed onion looking things growing where we had carrots last year, I assumed…

15th March 2022 It was good to have purple sprouting on my last visit, I was hoping for…

22nd February 2022 Something new, we have never grown cress, we had our first ‘pot’ of cress this…

15th February 2022 I pulled the last of the swede and probably did a last picking of sprouts…

8th February 2022 No visit to the plot, busy weekends and there’s not much that can be done…

1st February 2022 We picked a lot of the sprouts, some for eating and some for freezing. We…

25th January 2022 The normal suspects for winter time and casseroles. We have plenty of parsnips from last…

18th January 2022 We did pull the parsnips from the plot this week. This is the left overs…

4th January 2022 There is plenty on the plot for the start of a new year. All the…

12st December 2021 Finally pulled the last of the beetroot, both at the plot and at home. The…

14th December 2021 There has yet to be a bad parsnip day, each time I dig them up…

7th December 2021 I really fancied mashed potato with leeks and kale, so I went to the plot…

30th November 2021 Very pleased with the parsnips from the garden, happy I have brought the fork from…

23rd November 2021 We have started using the parsnips from the garden, forgetting just how difficult it is…

2nd November 2021 .Finally pulled up the carrots, a mix of good large ones and a load of…

19th October 2021 The week of the squashes, I’m not sure what to do with them now we…

13th October 2021 I’ve started to pull the carrots, it will soon be too wet and damp for…

5th October 2021 October is always allotment fee month, so that’s £60s that goes straight away. It has…

28th September 2021 Finally we start pulling a lot of beetroot. Some we eat straight away, some we…

21st September 2021 A bit of a lack of photos… We pulled a load of small carrots from…

14th September 2021 Summer plants are coming to an end, we are picking the last lot of runner…

7th September 2021 It’s suddenly a rather late hot summer, for at least four days. Courgettes have slowed…

31st August 2021 We finally dug the potatoes in the garden and the harvest was a good as…

24th August 2021 The rest of the potatoes on the plot did not disappoint. The number of courgette…

10th August 2021 A positive start some actual red tomatoes growing well, and being picked, in the garden.…

3rd August 2021 It’s a week of millions of courgettes from just two plants, and a week of…

27th July 2021 The “big four” includes onions, the the summer onions have not been great. I pulled…

20th July 2021 Another one of the “big four” harvests, this time potatoes. Only one row at the…

13th July 2021 The harvests have really started, better late than never. I pulled the winter onions, one…

6th July2021 June was mostly cold, wet and windy, so far July is continuing. With such bad weather…

29th June 2021 The middle of summer, and yet most days are wet, windy and cold – harvests…

22nd June 2021 We return to mid winter, wind rain and cold temperatures. We might have had harvested…

15th June 2021 It is quite a relief that the radish phase is over for now, we couldn’t…

9th June 2021 An expensive week as the netting I bought the other month finally had to be…