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…
Poo on the plot
According to the weather, today will be the last day of the year when it won’t be wet,…
Clearing up leaves
The last time I was at the plot, there were leaves on the trees and everything was looking…
Winter time, winter veg
I have not been to the plot for nearly a month, a mixture of being busy and bad…
Beetroot and Butternut remaining
Tidying the garden, starting with cutting the grass which after all the dry and warm weather had become…
Digging up the paths
Not me, the local wildlife…. We get this every so often where upon arriving I find a lot…
Turnip harvest means it’s Autumn
I’m glad I decided to grow turnips this year as I really fancied a meal with turnips, maybe…
Tidying the garden for the winter
This time last week it was super hot and sunny, a bit of an extension to a summer…
Quick tidy up
A short afternoon visit, after all the wind and rain during the week some fresh air was needed…
The garden in the shade
Not fully in the shade but give it a couple of weeks and that will be it until…
Tomatoes out – Onions in
I received an email the other week from the allotment committee telling us that we must all destroy…
Cutting grass and thinking it’s too hot
Three days where the temperature has reached 25c which makes it a heatwave. That is where we have…
Super sunny morning at the plot
It was still all a bit misty when I arrived early in the morning and a bit cold.…
Pots in the Garden
We were given a present of a voucher for the garden centre and so decided to redo the…
Climbing trees, making netting
It seems like ages since I have gone to the plot first thing in the morning and spent…
Tomatoes in the garden
While those on the plot have suffered from the wind and the rain throughout the summer (I expect…
Watching things grow at the plot
The middle of summer and while there is plenty to be done on the plot, at the same…
More sun, more weeding
I also built a bit more of the plot edging using the old decking from the garden, a…
In the garden, beans still standing
A bit of a surprise with all the wind we have had this week. The beans have taken…
A break in the rain for some weeding
I quickly went up to the allotment in the evening when it was neither windy, rainy, or cold.…
The windy day of potatoes – and sprouts
A rare sunny and dry day, although windy, I thought we’d better dig up the potatoes. This was…
An evening of potatoes and swedes
At long last I got to plant out the swedes, so far this year has been mostly catching…
Garden Planting
After finishing ‘phase 3’ I continued to plant up the edge. We already had plants from the weekend…
Garden Paving – Phase3 completion
I find that if you break up projects in ‘phases’ then it hides the fact that it has…
Lots of weeding, planting out cucumbers
An afternoon of weeding where I filled two buckets full of bindweed, I also tied up the tomatoes…
Raining in the garden
It’s been super hot these last days, temperatures have not gone below 20c for a couple of days.…
The night of the peas and courgettes
I had not been to the plot for over a week, the weather had been a mix of…
Onions out, Butternut Squash in
Wind and rain and wind, and more wind…. In the end I thought I need to get the…
Garlic and tomatoes
Suddenly it was mid year, longest day, time for the garlic to be pulled up. Until a week…
Letting the Beans Out
One bed is protected by the Popadomes, the other is covered in green netting. The steps needed to…
Wires for the Raspberries
On my todo list I have “wire up raspberries” which is a reminder to put in place some…