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 It was originally made of pallets but after…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…
Starting to sow seeds
Suddenly… it was time to sow seeds for 2023 and with the prospect of it getting busy as…
Fire and Trees
Finally, I finish pruning/chopping the shrubs and trees in the garden for their yearly haircut. It seems to…
Shredded bushes and raspberry supports
I’ve been recording outside temperatures for three years now (the computer does all the monitor, I just look…
New Raspberry Bed Complete
It took longer than I was expecting, but I did end up doing some pretty deep digging in…
Parsnips and Raspberries
I dug up the remaining parsnips, not the best harvest but better than nothing. They will be chopped…
Sunrise, frost and raspberries
I got to the plot before sunrise this morning, it was a bit dark and certainly a lot…
Muddy Mud and Woodchip
A lack of plot visits for over the previous months mostly due to constant rain every weekend. It…
New year – new woodchip for paths
I knew there was woodchip available at the plot but I had not been able to get there…
2022 Summary
A quick summary of 2022… a year that seemed to come and go way too quickly. It was…
Getting Wet
I sometimes have so much time off around Christmas but the days are too short or the days…
Frost and Poo
A day off work and the first frost of the winter. I don’t think we have had frost…
Suddenly… I get to the Plot
One minute it was autumn, the next it was full blown biblical winter. Dark skies, rain, wind, floods…
Cutting Down Field Beans
With bad weather and other commitments getting in the way, I had my first visit the plot for…
Carrots out, Garlic in…
Hard to believe that there was a row of carrots between the parsnips and the beetroot on the…
Onions in the Garden
To give the plot a break from allium leaf minor I decided to grow all our onions in…
Sorting out the Sprouts
It’s been a busy weekend, no time to go to the plot and so I went after work…
Pumpkins, Edging, Field Beans
For quite a while we had two pumpkins growing off of the one plant, one grew larger each…
Heavy Rain
Lots of rain and it was heavy. I wondered how the netting I had put over the brassicas…
Keep Cutting the Grass
I cut the grass and then five minutes (or maybe one week) later it had regrown and was…
Shorter Days
Suddenly it feels like autumn when only the other week we were in the middle of a drought.…
Tomatoes and Butternut Squash
Most of the garden is filled with tomatoes and butternut squash. I keep spotting small squashes forming and…
Field Beans – Green Manure
I’ve tried overwintered green manure before but have always done it a little too late meaning they had…
Rain!
It was starting to get a bit tedious, constant watering every other day which by the time you…
Swede plants
We have never bought plants, we have always grown from seed. Buying in small seedlings is just too…
Planting out purple sprouting
I thought I had left it a bit late, but looking back at notes from last year I…
Beetroot and beans in the garden
An advantage of having some of the food growing in the garden is that it is not only…
Sprouts and more watering
During the summer months there is not much to do apart from watering, weeding, and harvesting. Most of…
The Hottest Day Ever
We didn’t get temperatures of 40c but we were around 30c for most of the day, maxing at…
Summer time – lots of watering
The potatoes on the plot certainly were in need of water when I visited in the evening, hopefully…
Tomatoes, Squash, Decking
Lots going on both at home and at the plot. At home I pulled the over wintered onions…
Garlic and Onion Harvest
Suddenly, both the garlic and the overwintered onions looked ready, they had both died back. I did have…
Kitchen Garden – Summer Time
The last week has been very hot and summer like, it ended with thunder, heavy rain and very…
Sun – Rain – Sun – Mice
We have had hot days of 24c and then lots of heavy rain in between, good weather for…
Early morning watering
Nice warm weather means early morning the the garden, watering and weeding – then sitting down with toast…
Planting out at the plot
An early 7am start, up to the plot in the car with various things to plant out. I…
Lots of planting in the garden
Only when you look at photos from the week before do you notice just how much things have…
A little bit of rain in the garden
Not much on the plot this weekend. Saturday was like a summer’s day, blue sky and hot, Sunday…
Left over potatoes and cutting grass
A hot and sunny afternoon doing small bits around the plot. I planted some borlotti beans, seeds given…
Lots of Weeding – no Rain
It didn’t rain in April and so I have been watering both at home and at the plot.…
Peas in the Garden
I was just going out in the garden to sow some runner and french bean seeds, but to…
Earthing Up Potatoes – sowing carrots
A quick visit to the plot to sow a row of carrots and beetroot. While there I noticed…
Grass in the Garden
We ran out of time over Easter, the finishing touch to the two new beds in the garden…
Sowing seeds in the Garden
We also planted out some lettuce plants that have been growing in pots for the last month. I…