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Starting to sow seeds

SteveMarch 12, 2023

Suddenly… it was time to sow seeds for 2023 and with the prospect of it getting busy as…

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Fire and Trees

SteveMarch 5, 2023March 5, 2023

Finally, I finish pruning/chopping the shrubs and trees in the garden for their yearly haircut. It seems to…

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Shredded bushes and raspberry supports

SteveFebruary 26, 2023

I’ve been recording outside temperatures for three years now (the computer does all the monitor, I just look…

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New Raspberry Bed Complete

SteveFebruary 12, 2023February 12, 2023

It took longer than I was expecting, but I did end up doing some pretty deep digging in…

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Parsnips and Raspberries

SteveJanuary 29, 2023

I dug up the remaining parsnips, not the best harvest but better than nothing. They will be chopped…

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Sunrise, frost and raspberries

SteveJanuary 22, 2023

I got to the plot before sunrise this morning, it was a bit dark and certainly a lot…

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Muddy Mud and Woodchip

SteveJanuary 14, 2023

A lack of plot visits for over the previous months mostly due to constant rain every weekend. It…

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New year – new woodchip for paths

SteveJanuary 2, 2023

I knew there was woodchip available at the plot but I had not been able to get there…

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2022 Summary

SteveDecember 31, 2022

A quick summary of 2022… a year that seemed to come and go way too quickly. It was…

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Getting Wet

SteveDecember 22, 2022

I sometimes have so much time off around Christmas but the days are too short or the days…

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Frost and Poo

SteveDecember 9, 2022

A day off work and the first frost of the winter. I don’t think we have had frost…

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Suddenly… I get to the Plot

SteveNovember 27, 2022November 27, 2022

One minute it was autumn, the next it was full blown biblical winter. Dark skies, rain, wind, floods…

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Cutting Down Field Beans

SteveNovember 13, 2022

With bad weather and other commitments getting in the way, I had my first visit the plot for…

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Carrots out, Garlic in…

SteveOctober 10, 2022October 9, 2022

Hard to believe that there was a row of carrots between the parsnips and the beetroot on the…

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Onions in the Garden

SteveOctober 9, 2022

To give the plot a break from allium leaf minor I decided to grow all our onions in…

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Sorting out the Sprouts

SteveOctober 5, 2022October 4, 2022

It’s been a busy weekend, no time to go to the plot and so I went after work…

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Pumpkins, Edging, Field Beans

SteveSeptember 19, 2022September 19, 2022

For quite a while we had two pumpkins growing off of the one plant, one grew larger each…

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Heavy Rain

SteveSeptember 13, 2022September 11, 2022

Lots of rain and it was heavy. I wondered how the netting I had put over the brassicas…

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Keep Cutting the Grass

SteveSeptember 12, 2022September 11, 2022

I cut the grass and then five minutes (or maybe one week) later it had regrown and was…

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Shorter Days

SteveSeptember 8, 2022September 8, 2022

Suddenly it feels like autumn when only the other week we were in the middle of a drought.…

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Tomatoes and Butternut Squash

SteveAugust 28, 2022August 27, 2022

Most of the garden is filled with tomatoes and butternut squash. I keep spotting small squashes forming and…

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Field Beans – Green Manure

SteveAugust 27, 2022

I’ve tried overwintered green manure before but have always done it a little too late meaning they had…

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Rain!

SteveAugust 20, 2022

It was starting to get a bit tedious, constant watering every other day which by the time you…

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Swede plants

SteveAugust 9, 2022

We have never bought plants, we have always grown from seed. Buying in small seedlings is just too…

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Planting out purple sprouting

SteveJuly 31, 2022

I thought I had left it a bit late, but looking back at notes from last year I…

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Beetroot and beans in the garden

SteveJuly 29, 2022July 27, 2022

An advantage of having some of the food growing in the garden is that it is not only…

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Sprouts and more watering

SteveJuly 28, 2022July 27, 2022

During the summer months there is not much to do apart from watering, weeding, and harvesting. Most of…

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The Hottest Day Ever

SteveJuly 22, 2022

We didn’t get temperatures of 40c but we were around 30c for most of the day, maxing at…

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Summer time – lots of watering

SteveJuly 7, 2022July 7, 2022

The potatoes on the plot certainly were in need of water when I visited in the evening, hopefully…

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Tomatoes, Squash, Decking

SteveJune 26, 2022

Lots going on both at home and at the plot. At home I pulled the over wintered onions…

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Garlic and Onion Harvest

SteveJune 20, 2022June 19, 2022

Suddenly, both the garlic and the overwintered onions looked ready, they had both died back. I did have…

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Kitchen Garden – Summer Time

SteveJune 19, 2022June 19, 2022

The last week has been very hot and summer like, it ended with thunder, heavy rain and very…

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Sun – Rain – Sun – Mice

SteveJune 8, 2022

We have had hot days of 24c and then lots of heavy rain in between, good weather for…

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Early morning watering

SteveMay 28, 2022

Nice warm weather means early morning the the garden, watering and weeding – then sitting down with toast…

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Planting out at the plot

SteveMay 22, 2022

An early 7am start, up to the plot in the car with various things to plant out. I…

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Lots of planting in the garden

SteveMay 21, 2022

Only when you look at photos from the week before do you notice just how much things have…

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A little bit of rain in the garden

SteveMay 15, 2022

Not much on the plot this weekend. Saturday was like a summer’s day, blue sky and hot, Sunday…

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Left over potatoes and cutting grass

SteveMay 8, 2022

A hot and sunny afternoon doing small bits around the plot. I planted some borlotti beans, seeds given…

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Lots of Weeding – no Rain

SteveMay 2, 2022May 2, 2022

It didn’t rain in April and so I have been watering both at home and at the plot.…

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Peas in the Garden

SteveMay 1, 2022May 2, 2022

I was just going out in the garden to sow some runner and french bean seeds, but to…

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Earthing Up Potatoes – sowing carrots

SteveApril 25, 2022April 24, 2022

A quick visit to the plot to sow a row of carrots and beetroot. While there I noticed…

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Grass in the Garden

SteveApril 24, 2022

We ran out of time over Easter, the finishing touch to the two new beds in the garden…

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Sowing seeds in the Garden

SteveApril 18, 2022April 17, 2022

We also planted out some lettuce plants that have been growing in pots for the last month. I…

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Potatoes all in…

SteveApril 17, 2022April 16, 2022

An early morning start at the plot, and why not with the good Easter weather we were having.…

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Garden beds ready

SteveApril 16, 2022April 16, 2022

I had hoped to had spent the evenings during the week finishing off the second bed, but the…

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Change in the Garden

SteveApril 10, 2022April 10, 2022

The garden is annoying in that it is not on a hill and yet it is on a…

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Potatoes and Parsnips

SteveMarch 27, 2022

A freaky warm week, blue skies and sun. I spent an early morning at the plot and it…

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Late night digging

SteveMarch 22, 2022March 21, 2022

On week to go until the clocks change, suddenly evening visits become possible. Even this week, with recent…

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Building a Shed not on our plot

SteveMarch 21, 2022

No our plot, we aren’t allowed sheds on our plot. Myself and Tom built a shed, well Tom…

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Compost and onions

SteveMarch 13, 2022March 13, 2022

It was blue skies and sun, cold but warm when the sun was on you. That was the…

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