Picking pumpkins
Time to start tidying up and prepping things. I pulled the last lot of carrots which got us…
Autumn suddenly arrives
You visit the plot and it feels just like summer, if not a bit cooler, you cling onto…
Last of the garden carrots
We have had the best year for carrots in the garden, something we normally struggle with. We have…
Picking dried beans
The borlotti plants on the plot have all died back so it was time to pick off the…
Tomatoes and Beans
I am pretty pleased with the tomatoes, with new ones turning red each day and ready for picking.…
Covering Swedes a Bit More
I covered the swedes last week in order to keep the birds off but it turns out it…
Pumpkins and tomatoes
With outdoor tomatoes I spent the beginning of summer wondering if tomatoes will actually start to appear and…
Garden sweetcorn
We have finally picked our first lot of sweetcorn cobs which has worked out really well in the…
Autumn already?
It certainly feels like it, shorter evenings and colder mornings. Have we eaten breakfast in the garden for…
Just need to cut the grass
The garden, I think, is looking really good and I pretty pleased with that we have done, I…
The day of the potatoes
A month later than I would had wanted, due to the bad weather, I finally dug up the…
Sweetcorn and tomatoes in the garden
I have high hopes for our tomatoes and sweetcorn currently growing in the garden. I’ve been removing leaves…
About time I did some weeding
Because in previous years I used to always go up to the plot super early in the morning…
Onions Out, Purple Sprouting In
It was forecast to be a wet week with super hot days in-between, I’d been waiting for a…
The Corn Jungle
Every day, the sweetcorn plants grow taller and we have started to see corn cobs growing on the…
Quick visits to the plot
The one day I had time to be at the plot the weather decided to modal mid winter…
Just the garden growing…
The peas came out this weekend, they finished a couple of weeks ago but some were still keeping…
Rain and warmth in the garden
Rain in the summer is annoying but if it’s warm too then plants will grow and sometimes very…
Courgettes and swedes
We have started to puck courgettes and with all the wet weather I am expecting them to grow…
New Shed
Back in 2022 we put up a shed at another plot, it was time for us to take…
Suddenly Summer
Lots of watering other the last week leaving the plot with a mixture of over wintered plants coming…
Not so windy in the garden
A super windy weekend which meant it wasn’t the best to spend a lot of time at the…
Windy visit
Super windy with cold and rain yesterday and sun with blue skies today. I was surprised to see…
Beans plant out, strawberries picked
I cut the grass paths between plots, and I built a bit more of the decking edging that…
Radish everywhere!
We are on a mission to eat as many radish as possible as the garden keeps providing enough…
Planting out squash & strawberry war victory
A mixed weather forecast of warm sunny and rainy days for the next week which made me think…
Garden beds filling up
Sunny early morning and so planted out: I sowed some more beetroot as the current line of plants…
Planting out beans and tomatoes
I sowed runner beans undercover last weekend and this weekend they were ready to plant out. This year…
The battle of the weeds
A mix of warm weather and rain meant the plot, and in fact the whole allotment site, had…
The battle of the peas
A mid week visit on the way home from work, it was sunny and warm during the day…
Sunny day in the garden
A bank holiday weekend started off sunny and I had a long list of plants that needed planting…
Netting for strawberries
I started this the other week, creating a frame and netting for the strawberries. The idea here is…
Evening visit, banking up potatoes
No longer working for home, for now, means I can’t finish work and be on the plot before…
Cutting bushes, planting out
Finally got round to cutting the bushes back to shape and trimming/hacking the tree. The off cuts I…
Strawberry netting and potatoes
A had a chance afternoon not at work during the week and so took the opportunity to spend…
Prepping for Courgettes
Cloudy early morning which soon turned to warm sun. I cycled up to the plot as the main…
Planting out onions
It may had been super windy up at the plot but in the garden we were sheltered from…
Parsnips in the wind
Blue sky and sun but very windy. Coming from the south and so hitting the plot head on.…
Potatoes planted
So far with Easter weather, promised to be windy and unsettled, has turned out to be warm with…
First sowing in the garden for 2024
Easter weekend, early this year at the end of March. So far this year it has been mostly…
Onions planted – beds prepped
Forecast for rain but when I woke up it was blue sky and sunny. I wasn’t planning anything…
Shop compost for the garden beds
We make compost at home but there is not enough waste to make a lot of it, so…
Enough home made compost to go around
After a bit of a rainy week and next week looking like much the same, Saturday started off…
More beans and no fruit cage
It must be the first day of the year where it has been cold but sunny, clear blue…
Cold and Wet
There was a brief bit of early morning sun and blue sky which made me think I could…
Chilli seedlings
Not much has happened on the plot for weeks because it’s been constantly raining all month. However, at…
Frozen broad beans
For the last couple of years we have not had any frost or sub-zero temperatures. We got a…
New year – new neighbour
2024 has (still) not given us flying cars but it has given us lots of rain and high…
A sunny day – prepping a bed
I had a midweek day off work and it turned out to be quite sunny and warm, I…
Tidying up, taking down the PoppaDomes
They served us well this year, I never knew they even existed until we got them. I was…