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…
Potatoes in the garden
I don’t know if we will get a good harvest as we put filled the potato buckets with…
Hose pipes and leeks
Watering the plot has always been quite a major job, multiple trips to the water trough up and…
Hot(ish) Days
Still not really hitting 20c according to the temperature probe in the garden, but in the sun it…
Everything is growing
Firstly, bindweed. I managed with ease to fill a small trug with it. Mostly it comes out easy…
The evening of the sprout plants
The sprouts I sowed in seed tray, in coir, had grown well but were starting to show signs…
Just weeding
A late start and one where it was hot and sunny. I could had done more but I…
Cutting the grass, again
I thought I would go up to the plot to give the seeds a bit of a water.…
Peas and Potatoes
I found it hard to find borlotti bean seeds, I tracked them down as pinto beans. I’m not…
Slow in the garden
Still yet to reach 20c in the garden this year, I wonder if the cool temperatures and unsettled…
Popadomes!
The bloke in the plot next to us was giving it up and offered for me to take…
Sunny afternoon at the plot
Suddenly, Sunday afternoon it became sunny and warm. It’s not yet been hot yet this year, there has…
Everything sown in the garden
With one bed put over to onions (to give the plot a rest), it feels not much will…
Early sunny morning – lots done
A good four hours on the plot while Tom was at work, super early in the morning and…
Bringing soil back to life in the garden
Overwintering in the garden does not work well, the lack of light and the constant wetness…. I’ve talked…
Last row of potatoes before it rains
Sun, a small bit of warmth, but plenty of rain means the plot and it’s bindweed was in…
Parsnips and Purple Sprouting
I wanted to sow parsnips last week but the weather didn’t allow it. It was cloudy but warm…
Planting and sowing
Looking back, it is a year today that we redid the beds in the garden, split them into…
The garden waking up
A boggy wet mess is mostly how our garden can be described for six months of the year,…
Potatoes In
Easter weekend was set to be super sunny for the most part (BRITS SIZZLE IN EASTER HEATWAVE.. as…
Tidying up – last fire of the year
This weekend would be the last time fires are permitted until the end of summer, so I was…
New decking, more sowing, some repotting
Finally got round to replacing the “decking” at the plot. It was originally made of pallets but after…
Filling in gaps in the onions
It is important to note for another year…. the garden is just too dark and wet for any…
More seeds
Mostly sowing more seeds, which will start off indoors until they germinate and then go outside undercover. Last…