
Starting to sow seeds
Suddenly… it was time to sow seeds for 2023 and with the prospect of it getting busy as…
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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…
With bad weather and other commitments getting in the way, I had my first visit the plot for…
Hard to believe that there was a row of carrots between the parsnips and the beetroot on the…
To give the plot a break from allium leaf minor I decided to grow all our onions in…
It’s been a busy weekend, no time to go to the plot and so I went after work…
For quite a while we had two pumpkins growing off of the one plant, one grew larger each…
Lots of rain and it was heavy. I wondered how the netting I had put over the brassicas…
I cut the grass and then five minutes (or maybe one week) later it had regrown and was…
Suddenly it feels like autumn when only the other week we were in the middle of a drought.…
Most of the garden is filled with tomatoes and butternut squash. I keep spotting small squashes forming and…
I’ve tried overwintered green manure before but have always done it a little too late meaning they had…
It was starting to get a bit tedious, constant watering every other day which by the time you…
We have never bought plants, we have always grown from seed. Buying in small seedlings is just too…
I thought I had left it a bit late, but looking back at notes from last year I…
An advantage of having some of the food growing in the garden is that it is not only…
During the summer months there is not much to do apart from watering, weeding, and harvesting. Most of…
We didn’t get temperatures of 40c but we were around 30c for most of the day, maxing at…
The potatoes on the plot certainly were in need of water when I visited in the evening, hopefully…
Lots going on both at home and at the plot. At home I pulled the over wintered onions…
Suddenly, both the garlic and the overwintered onions looked ready, they had both died back. I did have…
The last week has been very hot and summer like, it ended with thunder, heavy rain and very…
We have had hot days of 24c and then lots of heavy rain in between, good weather for…
Nice warm weather means early morning the the garden, watering and weeding – then sitting down with toast…
An early 7am start, up to the plot in the car with various things to plant out. I…
Only when you look at photos from the week before do you notice just how much things have…
Not much on the plot this weekend. Saturday was like a summer’s day, blue sky and hot, Sunday…
A hot and sunny afternoon doing small bits around the plot. I planted some borlotti beans, seeds given…
It didn’t rain in April and so I have been watering both at home and at the plot.…
I was just going out in the garden to sow some runner and french bean seeds, but to…
A quick visit to the plot to sow a row of carrots and beetroot. While there I noticed…
We ran out of time over Easter, the finishing touch to the two new beds in the garden…
We also planted out some lettuce plants that have been growing in pots for the last month. I…
An early morning start at the plot, and why not with the good Easter weather we were having.…
I had hoped to had spent the evenings during the week finishing off the second bed, but the…
The garden is annoying in that it is not on a hill and yet it is on a…
A freaky warm week, blue skies and sun. I spent an early morning at the plot and it…
On week to go until the clocks change, suddenly evening visits become possible. Even this week, with recent…
No our plot, we aren’t allowed sheds on our plot. Myself and Tom built a shed, well Tom…
It was blue skies and sun, cold but warm when the sun was on you. That was the…