
After the Storm
I wasn’t too worried, although I knew I had not really secured the netting very well last week…
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I wasn’t too worried, although I knew I had not really secured the netting very well last week…
Most weekends so far this year have been wet and miserable, not much going on in the garden…
Sown months and months ago, these take a very long time to mature and give something to harvest.…
Most of the parsnips I direct sowed in the garden and so far each one we have dug…
A quick summary of 2021… January The year started with zombies, coffee, and cow poo. I was amazed…
We seem to take days off work over Christmas when it’s dark and wet and not much going…
Short days, mostly just drizzle, damp, and cloud, but sometimes the odd bit of sun too. I took…
An unexpected sunny (cold) afternoon with a couple of hours to spare, so I thought I would plant…
A quick visit to the plot, it was my birthday and I had a new Hori Hori knife…
It was cold but it was very sunny, which seemed like a good time to do bits in…
We braved the wind and the cold to venture out to Hurstpierpoint to buy a second hoe so…
I was faced with a thick sea of leaves when I arrived at the plot late in the…
Every year it comes to about now and I start pondering about where to get hold of cheap…
Rain and wind, that’s it until March time maybe. I had left carrots in the ground long enough…
I pondered about it, I thought I’d leave it to next year, I did some small bits of…
I took advantage of a couple of days this week where I was working in the afternoon and…
Time to clear some of the squash plants and pull up the rest of the carrots from the…
A surprise sunny afternoon, I spent it putting up the next bit of ‘fence’ and continuing to tidy…
With a bit of summer still hanging on, in the shape of one late red strawberry in the…
An exciting day is one that we bought the ‘Shredder 2000’…. It was actually a Ryobi contact shredder…
Suddenly, it is summer time, for at least three days – the garden is making the most of…
I had to go up to the plot the next day to remind myself what I had done…
Bank holiday weather turned out to be grey cloudy and not that inviting. I wanted to go up…
With being in the ground for quite a long time, I was not surprised to loose a number…
Not because we really needed some, more because if I didn’t pick them then they would take over…
I pulled up the tomato plants at the plot, rescuing a small number of green tomatoes along the…
I was just going to plant out some spinach in a gap I found in the garden but…
It’s been windy, cold and raining… we escaped out for a walk up to the plot, and it…
Not much to say about the storms the day before, I had tied things up the night before…
It had been windy and rainy all week, but one evening at least the rain stopped. I thought…
It’s only been hot summer weather for the last week, but that’s enough for words like “heatwave”, “drought”…
One of the “big four” harvests came in this week, the potatoes or at least the start of…
The potatoes are still growing and they are taking up way too much space at home. I’ve tied…
Saturday was like winter time, wet and cold. Sunday (morning) was like summer, Sunday afternoon was back to…
Left for just a week and it is like a jungle. The potatoes went wild over shadowing everything,…
Strong winds in the summer are a bit worse than strong winds in the winter, the tomato plants…
It’s maybe worth taking photos on the odd warm and still day, it’s doesn’t seem to happen much…
Over wintered broad beans, we have been giving them away, we have so many and the freezer just…
Actually, there is more rain to come, but a small break allowed me to spend some time weeding.…
After a week of lots of sun and long evenings, we have had non stop heavy rain for…
It’s about time, a bit late this year. The final set of squash plants planted out at the…
Not much happened in May, it was too cold, nothing was growing. All it needs is sun and…
After a bit of sun after all this rain and cold, it grows very well. The sunny bank…
A visit in the evening on a rare non-raining, non-windy day, not the warmest but quite calming all…
I’m surprised not more was made of it on the news, we had super strong wind blowing day…
The first year we grew parsnips I started them off undercover in loo rolls and planted them out…
It’s not the warm spring days we enjoyed this time last year, sometimes it feels like the middle…
The fruit cage was never destined to be covered in bright blue scaffold netting, I was waiting for…
Let’s not get too excited, it’s only been three nice sunny days without too much rain. It has…