
Picking dried beans
The borlotti plants on the plot have all died back so it was time to pick off the…
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The borlotti plants on the plot have all died back so it was time to pick off the…
I am pretty pleased with the tomatoes, with new ones turning red each day and ready for picking.…
I covered the swedes last week in order to keep the birds off but it turns out it…
With outdoor tomatoes I spent the beginning of summer wondering if tomatoes will actually start to appear and…
We have finally picked our first lot of sweetcorn cobs which has worked out really well in the…
It certainly feels like it, shorter evenings and colder mornings. Have we eaten breakfast in the garden for…
The garden, I think, is looking really good and I pretty pleased with that we have done, I…
A month later than I would had wanted, due to the bad weather, I finally dug up the…
I have high hopes for our tomatoes and sweetcorn currently growing in the garden. I’ve been removing leaves…
Because in previous years I used to always go up to the plot super early in the morning…
It was forecast to be a wet week with super hot days in-between, I’d been waiting for a…
Every day, the sweetcorn plants grow taller and we have started to see corn cobs growing on the…
The one day I had time to be at the plot the weather decided to modal mid winter…
The peas came out this weekend, they finished a couple of weeks ago but some were still keeping…
Rain in the summer is annoying but if it’s warm too then plants will grow and sometimes very…
We have started to puck courgettes and with all the wet weather I am expecting them to grow…
Back in 2022 we put up a shed at another plot, it was time for us to take…
Lots of watering other the last week leaving the plot with a mixture of over wintered plants coming…
A super windy weekend which meant it wasn’t the best to spend a lot of time at the…
Super windy with cold and rain yesterday and sun with blue skies today. I was surprised to see…
I cut the grass paths between plots, and I built a bit more of the decking edging that…
We are on a mission to eat as many radish as possible as the garden keeps providing enough…
A mixed weather forecast of warm sunny and rainy days for the next week which made me think…
Sunny early morning and so planted out: I sowed some more beetroot as the current line of plants…
I sowed runner beans undercover last weekend and this weekend they were ready to plant out. This year…
A mix of warm weather and rain meant the plot, and in fact the whole allotment site, had…
A mid week visit on the way home from work, it was sunny and warm during the day…
A bank holiday weekend started off sunny and I had a long list of plants that needed planting…
I started this the other week, creating a frame and netting for the strawberries. The idea here is…
No longer working for home, for now, means I can’t finish work and be on the plot before…
Finally got round to cutting the bushes back to shape and trimming/hacking the tree. The off cuts I…
A had a chance afternoon not at work during the week and so took the opportunity to spend…
Cloudy early morning which soon turned to warm sun. I cycled up to the plot as the main…
It may had been super windy up at the plot but in the garden we were sheltered from…
Blue sky and sun but very windy. Coming from the south and so hitting the plot head on.…
So far with Easter weather, promised to be windy and unsettled, has turned out to be warm with…
Easter weekend, early this year at the end of March. So far this year it has been mostly…
Forecast for rain but when I woke up it was blue sky and sunny. I wasn’t planning anything…
We make compost at home but there is not enough waste to make a lot of it, so…
After a bit of a rainy week and next week looking like much the same, Saturday started off…
It must be the first day of the year where it has been cold but sunny, clear blue…
There was a brief bit of early morning sun and blue sky which made me think I could…
Not much has happened on the plot for weeks because it’s been constantly raining all month. However, at…
For the last couple of years we have not had any frost or sub-zero temperatures. We got a…
2024 has (still) not given us flying cars but it has given us lots of rain and high…
I had a midweek day off work and it turned out to be quite sunny and warm, I…
They served us well this year, I never knew they even existed until we got them. I was…
According to the weather, today will be the last day of the year when it won’t be wet,…
The last time I was at the plot, there were leaves on the trees and everything was looking…
I have not been to the plot for nearly a month, a mixture of being busy and bad…