
Garden Potatoes
With being in the ground for quite a long time, I was not surprised to loose a number…
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With being in the ground for quite a long time, I was not surprised to loose a number…
Not because we really needed some, more because if I didn’t pick them then they would take over…
I pulled up the tomato plants at the plot, rescuing a small number of green tomatoes along the…
I was just going to plant out some spinach in a gap I found in the garden but…
It’s been windy, cold and raining… we escaped out for a walk up to the plot, and it…
Not much to say about the storms the day before, I had tied things up the night before…
It had been windy and rainy all week, but one evening at least the rain stopped. I thought…
It’s only been hot summer weather for the last week, but that’s enough for words like “heatwave”, “drought”…
One of the “big four” harvests came in this week, the potatoes or at least the start of…
The potatoes are still growing and they are taking up way too much space at home. I’ve tied…
Saturday was like winter time, wet and cold. Sunday (morning) was like summer, Sunday afternoon was back to…
Left for just a week and it is like a jungle. The potatoes went wild over shadowing everything,…
Strong winds in the summer are a bit worse than strong winds in the winter, the tomato plants…
It’s maybe worth taking photos on the odd warm and still day, it’s doesn’t seem to happen much…
Over wintered broad beans, we have been giving them away, we have so many and the freezer just…
Actually, there is more rain to come, but a small break allowed me to spend some time weeding.…
After a week of lots of sun and long evenings, we have had non stop heavy rain for…
It’s about time, a bit late this year. The final set of squash plants planted out at the…
Not much happened in May, it was too cold, nothing was growing. All it needs is sun and…
After a bit of sun after all this rain and cold, it grows very well. The sunny bank…
A visit in the evening on a rare non-raining, non-windy day, not the warmest but quite calming all…
I’m surprised not more was made of it on the news, we had super strong wind blowing day…
The first year we grew parsnips I started them off undercover in loo rolls and planted them out…
It’s not the warm spring days we enjoyed this time last year, sometimes it feels like the middle…
The fruit cage was never destined to be covered in bright blue scaffold netting, I was waiting for…
Let’s not get too excited, it’s only been three nice sunny days without too much rain. It has…
Which means weeds have shot up during the week, I spent the first hour weeding, pulling up bindweed…
The list of things to do was long and it included a fruit cage and a greenhouse (the…
Have started, a quick 30 minutes or so after work which might have turned into an hour, or…
Overwintered onion seed plants are doing quite well on the plot although are noticeably behind the sets, which…
While it was snowing last week, this week it is sunny and each day the back garden gets…
We have been busy at home these last couple of weeks and I knew while we were absent…
Busy weekends coming up, and cold weather plus snow (I’ll believe it when I see it) forecast over…
I walked up to the plot early in the morning with a small bag of onion sets to…
I have a long list of things to start sowing undercover which I am working through bit-by-bit. I…
Give it a couple of weeks or so and I’ll be planting potatoes and onions, I thought this…
I’ve been looking at the half finished bed in the garden and thinking I’m going to have to…
Now that both the currants and the gooseberries are in the same area on the plot (and hopefully…
Back in September I worked on the bed at home and edging with ‘railway sleepers’, looking back at…
The thermometer was gladly telling me that the high for the week had been 0c while the low…
There was no real plan this morning apart from taking pictures of the allotment in the snow that…
An annual job to cut down the hop bush. At this time of the year the garden is…
There is not much to do at the plot, nor in the garden. Both are pretty wet and…
I’m not sure how I feel about people who plant trees on allotment plots, they are such a…
A quick summary of 2020… January I planted out some more broadbeans after mice/rats eat some of the…
We don’t have frost that often, but when we do it stays in the garden for days. The…
Let’s start with the coffee, and the zombies… It’s been an interesting week with a mixture of it…
It seems almost as exciting as snow these days, we don’t get much frost on the south coast…
This is the year of “no no-dig” I feel. Part of growing for me is the digging, I…
Not only did I have the afternoon off work, but it was (cold) sunny too. Knowing that it…