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Watching things grow at the plot
The middle of summer and while there is plenty to be done on the plot, at the same…
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The middle of summer and while there is plenty to be done on the plot, at the same…
I also built a bit more of the plot edging using the old decking from the garden, a…
A bit of a surprise with all the wind we have had this week. The beans have taken…
I quickly went up to the allotment in the evening when it was neither windy, rainy, or cold.…
A rare sunny and dry day, although windy, I thought we’d better dig up the potatoes. This was…
At long last I got to plant out the swedes, so far this year has been mostly catching…
After finishing ‘phase 3’ I continued to plant up the edge. We already had plants from the weekend…
I find that if you break up projects in ‘phases’ then it hides the fact that it has…
An afternoon of weeding where I filled two buckets full of bindweed, I also tied up the tomatoes…
It’s been super hot these last days, temperatures have not gone below 20c for a couple of days.…
I had not been to the plot for over a week, the weather had been a mix of…
Wind and rain and wind, and more wind…. In the end I thought I need to get the…
Suddenly it was mid year, longest day, time for the garlic to be pulled up. Until a week…
One bed is protected by the Popadomes, the other is covered in green netting. The steps needed to…
On my todo list I have “wire up raspberries” which is a reminder to put in place some…
I don’t know if we will get a good harvest as we put filled the potato buckets with…
Watering the plot has always been quite a major job, multiple trips to the water trough up and…
Still not really hitting 20c according to the temperature probe in the garden, but in the sun it…
Firstly, bindweed. I managed with ease to fill a small trug with it. Mostly it comes out easy…
The sprouts I sowed in seed tray, in coir, had grown well but were starting to show signs…
A late start and one where it was hot and sunny. I could had done more but I…
I thought I would go up to the plot to give the seeds a bit of a water.…
I found it hard to find borlotti bean seeds, I tracked them down as pinto beans. I’m not…
Still yet to reach 20c in the garden this year, I wonder if the cool temperatures and unsettled…
The bloke in the plot next to us was giving it up and offered for me to take…
Suddenly, Sunday afternoon it became sunny and warm. It’s not yet been hot yet this year, there has…
With one bed put over to onions (to give the plot a rest), it feels not much will…
A good four hours on the plot while Tom was at work, super early in the morning and…
Overwintering in the garden does not work well, the lack of light and the constant wetness…. I’ve talked…
Sun, a small bit of warmth, but plenty of rain means the plot and it’s bindweed was in…
I wanted to sow parsnips last week but the weather didn’t allow it. It was cloudy but warm…
Looking back, it is a year today that we redid the beds in the garden, split them into…
A boggy wet mess is mostly how our garden can be described for six months of the year,…
Easter weekend was set to be super sunny for the most part (BRITS SIZZLE IN EASTER HEATWAVE.. as…
This weekend would be the last time fires are permitted until the end of summer, so I was…
Finally got round to replacing the “decking” at the plot. It was originally made of pallets but after…
It is important to note for another year…. the garden is just too dark and wet for any…
Mostly sowing more seeds, which will start off indoors until they germinate and then go outside undercover. Last…
Suddenly… it was time to sow seeds for 2023 and with the prospect of it getting busy as…
Finally, I finish pruning/chopping the shrubs and trees in the garden for their yearly haircut. It seems to…
I’ve been recording outside temperatures for three years now (the computer does all the monitor, I just look…
It took longer than I was expecting, but I did end up doing some pretty deep digging in…
I dug up the remaining parsnips, not the best harvest but better than nothing. They will be chopped…
I got to the plot before sunrise this morning, it was a bit dark and certainly a lot…
A lack of plot visits for over the previous months mostly due to constant rain every weekend. It…
I knew there was woodchip available at the plot but I had not been able to get there…
A quick summary of 2022… a year that seemed to come and go way too quickly. It was…
I sometimes have so much time off around Christmas but the days are too short or the days…
A day off work and the first frost of the winter. I don’t think we have had frost…
One minute it was autumn, the next it was full blown biblical winter. Dark skies, rain, wind, floods…