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After the Storm

SteveFebruary 19, 2022

I wasn’t too worried, although I knew I had not really secured the netting very well last week…

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Poo in the Garden

SteveFebruary 12, 2022

Most weekends so far this year have been wet and miserable, not much going on in the garden…

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Looking after the Purple Sprouting

SteveFebruary 12, 2022February 13, 2022

Sown months and months ago, these take a very long time to mature and give something to harvest.…

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Parsnips from the plot

SteveJanuary 15, 2022January 15, 2022

Most of the parsnips I direct sowed in the garden and so far each one we have dug…

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2021 Summary

SteveDecember 31, 2021January 1, 2022

A quick summary of 2021… January The year started with zombies, coffee, and cow poo. I was amazed…

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Dark and wet days – moving rhubarb

SteveDecember 30, 2021

We seem to take days off work over Christmas when it’s dark and wet and not much going…

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More onions and less fence

SteveDecember 20, 2021

Short days, mostly just drizzle, damp, and cloud, but sometimes the odd bit of sun too. I took…

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Blackberry Planted

SteveDecember 11, 2021

An unexpected sunny (cold) afternoon with a couple of hours to spare, so I thought I would plant…

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Knives and Birthdays

SteveDecember 5, 2021

A quick visit to the plot, it was my birthday and I had a new Hori Hori knife…

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Parsnips from the garden

SteveNovember 28, 2021

It was cold but it was very sunny, which seemed like a good time to do bits in…

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Hammer and Blackberries

SteveNovember 27, 2021

We braved the wind and the cold to venture out to Hurstpierpoint to buy a second hoe so…

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Leaves everywhere

SteveNovember 21, 2021

I was faced with a thick sea of leaves when I arrived at the plot late in the…

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Woodchip and poo

SteveNovember 7, 2021

Every year it comes to about now and I start pondering about where to get hold of cheap…

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Quick visit for carrots

SteveOctober 31, 2021

Rain and wind, that’s it until March time maybe. I had left carrots in the ground long enough…

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Plot Tour 2021

SteveOctober 31, 2021October 31, 2021
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Strawberries Moved

SteveOctober 23, 2021

I pondered about it, I thought I’d leave it to next year, I did some small bits of…

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Strawberries and onions

SteveOctober 17, 2021

I took advantage of a couple of days this week where I was working in the afternoon and…

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Clearing and netting in the garden

SteveOctober 10, 2021

Time to clear some of the squash plants and pull up the rest of the carrots from the…

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Strawberries and fence

SteveOctober 9, 2021

A surprise sunny afternoon, I spent it putting up the next bit of ‘fence’ and continuing to tidy…

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An autumn feeling

SteveSeptember 26, 2021

With a bit of summer still hanging on, in the shape of one late red strawberry in the…

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Compost and the Shredder 2000

SteveSeptember 13, 2021September 14, 2021

An exciting day is one that we bought the ‘Shredder 2000’…. It was actually a Ryobi contact shredder…

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Garden Flowers & Squash

SteveSeptember 6, 2021

Suddenly, it is summer time, for at least three days – the garden is making the most of…

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Turnip Time

SteveSeptember 6, 2021

I had to go up to the plot the next day to remind myself what I had done…

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Lots of jobs done

SteveAugust 30, 2021

Bank holiday weather turned out to be grey cloudy and not that inviting. I wanted to go up…

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Garden Potatoes

SteveAugust 30, 2021

With being in the ground for quite a long time, I was not surprised to loose a number…

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Quick visit to fetch courgettes

SteveAugust 21, 2021

Not because we really needed some, more because if I didn’t pick them then they would take over…

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Potatoes and Fences

SteveAugust 14, 2021

I pulled up the tomato plants at the plot, rescuing a small number of green tomatoes along the…

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Discovering the Leeks

SteveAugust 14, 2021

I was just going to plant out some spinach in a gap I found in the garden but…

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Another year of green tomatoes

SteveAugust 9, 2021

It’s been windy, cold and raining… we escaped out for a walk up to the plot, and it…

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Planting out things

SteveAugust 1, 2021

Not much to say about the storms the day before, I had tied things up the night before…

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Picking up tomato plants

SteveJuly 30, 2021

It had been windy and rainy all week, but one evening at least the rain stopped. I thought…

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Summer Evenings

SteveJuly 24, 2021

It’s only been hot summer weather for the last week, but that’s enough for words like “heatwave”, “drought”…

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The Night of the Potatoes – lots of them

SteveJuly 18, 2021

One of the “big four” harvests came in this week, the potatoes or at least the start of…

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Squash plants in the garden

SteveJuly 15, 2021

The potatoes are still growing and they are taking up way too much space at home. I’ve tied…

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It’s Summer Time

SteveJuly 14, 2021

Saturday was like winter time, wet and cold. Sunday (morning) was like summer, Sunday afternoon was back to…

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Tidying the garden

SteveJuly 9, 2021

Left for just a week and it is like a jungle. The potatoes went wild over shadowing everything,…

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Wind damaged tomatoes

SteveJuly 8, 2021

Strong winds in the summer are a bit worse than strong winds in the winter, the tomato plants…

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A bit of calm before all the storms

SteveJuly 6, 2021July 6, 2021

It’s maybe worth taking photos on the odd warm and still day, it’s doesn’t seem to happen much…

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Cloudy, murky, but warm(ish)

SteveJune 27, 2021

Over wintered broad beans, we have been giving them away, we have so many and the freezer just…

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Weeding after the rain

SteveJune 20, 2021

Actually, there is more rain to come, but a small break allowed me to spend some time weeding.…

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Squash plants do like the rain

SteveJune 19, 2021

After a week of lots of sun and long evenings, we have had non stop heavy rain for…

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An evening of planting

SteveJune 12, 2021June 15, 2021

It’s about time, a bit late this year. The final set of squash plants planted out at the…

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Leeks, Sprouts & Squashes

SteveJune 8, 2021

Not much happened in May, it was too cold, nothing was growing. All it needs is sun and…

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How does your garden grow?

SteveJune 2, 2021May 31, 2021

After a bit of sun after all this rain and cold, it grows very well. The sunny bank…

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Sun!

SteveMay 31, 2021

A visit in the evening on a rare non-raining, non-windy day, not the warmest but quite calming all…

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The Day After Tomorrow

SteveMay 23, 2021

I’m surprised not more was made of it on the news, we had super strong wind blowing day…

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Planting out Parsnips

SteveMay 20, 2021

The first year we grew parsnips I started them off undercover in loo rolls and planted them out…

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Good Growing Weather

SteveMay 19, 2021

It’s not the warm spring days we enjoyed this time last year, sometimes it feels like the middle…

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The night of the netting

SteveMay 13, 2021May 12, 2021

The fruit cage was never destined to be covered in bright blue scaffold netting, I was waiting for…

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A bit of warmth & the garden grows

SteveMay 12, 2021May 11, 2021

Let’s not get too excited, it’s only been three nice sunny days without too much rain. It has…

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