14th July 2020 The last of the big harvest items, onions. The second lot of onions from the…

7th July 2020 A welcome return to french beans, we had success with these in our first year…

30th June 2020 The week of fruit and onions. Super pleased with the over wintered onions which were…

23rd June 2020 The week of the raspberries, every visit included a raspberry picking session. We have now…

16th June 2020 The start of the “big three” harvests with pulling of the garlic (the other two…

9th June 2020 No radish, maybe next week the long white icicle ones might be ready. We have…

2nd June 2020 It’s not yet time to pull the garlic, although it does look like I could…

26th May 2020 We are pulling a lot of radish each day at the moment, the first time…

19th May 2020 The advantage of having things growing at home is starting to pay off with lunch…

12th May 2020 Radish time. These were probably ready a week ago but we had no need to…

5th May 2020 I was pleased to be picking the first lot of broad beans for this year,…

21st April 2020 A quiet month for harvest not too affected by the lock down. Expenses however have…

31st March 2020 People seem to have decided that the allotment is a safe place that no virus…

17th March 2020 I couldn’t work out what the new green shoots that had appeared over the week…

3rd March 2020 Just a week of leeks, no photo but over 1kg of leeks which was a…

18th February 2020 A small break in the bad weather gave me a chance to do a harvest.…

28st January 2020 No work on the allotment this week apart from a walk to pick bits for…

21st January 2020 The cold day of the parsnips, I pulled up the remaining ones in the ground…

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…