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Garden Potatoes

SteveAugust 30, 2021

With being in the ground for quite a long time, I was not surprised to loose a number…

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Quick visit to fetch courgettes

SteveAugust 21, 2021

Not because we really needed some, more because if I didn’t pick them then they would take over…

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Potatoes and Fences

SteveAugust 14, 2021

I pulled up the tomato plants at the plot, rescuing a small number of green tomatoes along the…

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Discovering the Leeks

SteveAugust 14, 2021

I was just going to plant out some spinach in a gap I found in the garden but…

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Another year of green tomatoes

SteveAugust 9, 2021

It’s been windy, cold and raining… we escaped out for a walk up to the plot, and it…

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Planting out things

SteveAugust 1, 2021

Not much to say about the storms the day before, I had tied things up the night before…

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Picking up tomato plants

SteveJuly 30, 2021

It had been windy and rainy all week, but one evening at least the rain stopped. I thought…

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Summer Evenings

SteveJuly 24, 2021

It’s only been hot summer weather for the last week, but that’s enough for words like “heatwave”, “drought”…

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The Night of the Potatoes – lots of them

SteveJuly 18, 2021

One of the “big four” harvests came in this week, the potatoes or at least the start of…

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Squash plants in the garden

SteveJuly 15, 2021

The potatoes are still growing and they are taking up way too much space at home. I’ve tied…

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It’s Summer Time

SteveJuly 14, 2021

Saturday was like winter time, wet and cold. Sunday (morning) was like summer, Sunday afternoon was back to…

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Tidying the garden

SteveJuly 9, 2021

Left for just a week and it is like a jungle. The potatoes went wild over shadowing everything,…

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Wind damaged tomatoes

SteveJuly 8, 2021

Strong winds in the summer are a bit worse than strong winds in the winter, the tomato plants…

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A bit of calm before all the storms

SteveJuly 6, 2021July 6, 2021

It’s maybe worth taking photos on the odd warm and still day, it’s doesn’t seem to happen much…

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Cloudy, murky, but warm(ish)

SteveJune 27, 2021

Over wintered broad beans, we have been giving them away, we have so many and the freezer just…

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Weeding after the rain

SteveJune 20, 2021

Actually, there is more rain to come, but a small break allowed me to spend some time weeding.…

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Squash plants do like the rain

SteveJune 19, 2021

After a week of lots of sun and long evenings, we have had non stop heavy rain for…

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An evening of planting

SteveJune 12, 2021June 15, 2021

It’s about time, a bit late this year. The final set of squash plants planted out at the…

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Leeks, Sprouts & Squashes

SteveJune 8, 2021

Not much happened in May, it was too cold, nothing was growing. All it needs is sun and…

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How does your garden grow?

SteveJune 2, 2021May 31, 2021

After a bit of sun after all this rain and cold, it grows very well. The sunny bank…

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Sun!

SteveMay 31, 2021

A visit in the evening on a rare non-raining, non-windy day, not the warmest but quite calming all…

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The Day After Tomorrow

SteveMay 23, 2021

I’m surprised not more was made of it on the news, we had super strong wind blowing day…

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Planting out Parsnips

SteveMay 20, 2021

The first year we grew parsnips I started them off undercover in loo rolls and planted them out…

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Good Growing Weather

SteveMay 19, 2021

It’s not the warm spring days we enjoyed this time last year, sometimes it feels like the middle…

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The night of the netting

SteveMay 13, 2021May 12, 2021

The fruit cage was never destined to be covered in bright blue scaffold netting, I was waiting for…

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A bit of warmth & the garden grows

SteveMay 12, 2021May 11, 2021

Let’s not get too excited, it’s only been three nice sunny days without too much rain. It has…

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Rain and sun

SteveMay 10, 2021

Which means weeds have shot up during the week, I spent the first hour weeding, pulling up bindweed…

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The Longest (busiest) Day

SteveMay 2, 2021May 2, 2021

The list of things to do was long and it included a fruit cage and a greenhouse (the…

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Evening Visits

SteveApril 23, 2021April 22, 2021

Have started, a quick 30 minutes or so after work which might have turned into an hour, or…

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More potatoes and onions

SteveApril 19, 2021April 18, 2021

Overwintered onion seed plants are doing quite well on the plot although are noticeably behind the sets, which…

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More sowing at home

SteveApril 18, 2021April 18, 2021

While it was snowing last week, this week it is sunny and each day the back garden gets…

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So much rhubarb

SteveApril 11, 2021

We have been busy at home these last couple of weeks and I knew while we were absent…

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Potatoes are go…

SteveApril 1, 2021

Busy weekends coming up, and cold weather plus snow (I’ll believe it when I see it) forecast over…

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Onions and rhubarb

SteveMarch 27, 2021

I walked up to the plot early in the morning with a small bag of onion sets to…

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Just sowing…

SteveMarch 21, 2021

I have a long list of things to start sowing undercover which I am working through bit-by-bit. I…

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Prepping the beds

SteveMarch 14, 2021

Give it a couple of weeks or so and I’ll be planting potatoes and onions, I thought this…

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New Poo… and garden bed finished

SteveMarch 7, 2021

I’ve been looking at the half finished bed in the garden and thinking I’m going to have to…

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Repotting & Sun on the Plot

SteveMarch 2, 2021

Now that both the currants and the gooseberries are in the same area on the plot (and hopefully…

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Work continues at home

SteveFebruary 27, 2021

Back in September I worked on the bed at home and edging with ‘railway sleepers’, looking back at…

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Freezing weather and beans

SteveFebruary 20, 2021

The thermometer was gladly telling me that the high for the week had been 0c while the low…

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Pottering in the (no) snow

SteveFebruary 7, 2021

There was no real plan this morning apart from taking pictures of the allotment in the snow that…

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Cutting down the Hop

SteveFebruary 6, 2021

An annual job to cut down the hop bush. At this time of the year the garden is…

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Just a walk to get bits for tea…

SteveJanuary 31, 2021

There is not much to do at the plot, nor in the garden. Both are pretty wet and…

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No more cherry tree

SteveJanuary 23, 2021

I’m not sure how I feel about people who plant trees on allotment plots, they are such a…

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2020 Summary

SteveJanuary 17, 2021January 1, 2022

A quick summary of 2020… January I planted out some more broadbeans after mice/rats eat some of the…

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Deep freeze in the garden

SteveJanuary 10, 2021January 9, 2021

We don’t have frost that often, but when we do it stays in the garden for days. The…

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Zombies, coffee and cow poo

SteveJanuary 9, 2021

Let’s start with the coffee, and the zombies… It’s been an interesting week with a mixture of it…

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Frosty Parsnips and Gooseberries

SteveDecember 31, 2020December 31, 2020

It seems almost as exciting as snow these days, we don’t get much frost on the south coast…

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Digging the garden

SteveDecember 19, 2020

This is the year of “no no-dig” I feel. Part of growing for me is the digging, I…

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Pruning Things

SteveDecember 18, 2020

Not only did I have the afternoon off work, but it was (cold) sunny too. Knowing that it…

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