Good Growing Weather
It’s not the warm spring days we enjoyed this time last year, sometimes it feels like the middle…
The night of the netting
The fruit cage was never destined to be covered in bright blue scaffold netting, I was waiting for…
A bit of warmth & the garden grows
Let’s not get too excited, it’s only been three nice sunny days without too much rain. It has…
Rain and sun
Which means weeds have shot up during the week, I spent the first hour weeding, pulling up bindweed…
The Longest (busiest) Day
The list of things to do was long and it included a fruit cage and a greenhouse (the…
Evening Visits
Have started, a quick 30 minutes or so after work which might have turned into an hour, or…
More potatoes and onions
Overwintered onion seed plants are doing quite well on the plot although are noticeably behind the sets, which…
More sowing at home
While it was snowing last week, this week it is sunny and each day the back garden gets…
So much rhubarb
We have been busy at home these last couple of weeks and I knew while we were absent…
Potatoes are go…
Busy weekends coming up, and cold weather plus snow (I’ll believe it when I see it) forecast over…
Onions and rhubarb
I walked up to the plot early in the morning with a small bag of onion sets to…
Just sowing…
I have a long list of things to start sowing undercover which I am working through bit-by-bit. I…
Prepping the beds
Give it a couple of weeks or so and I’ll be planting potatoes and onions, I thought this…
New Poo… and garden bed finished
I’ve been looking at the half finished bed in the garden and thinking I’m going to have to…
Repotting & Sun on the Plot
Now that both the currants and the gooseberries are in the same area on the plot (and hopefully…
Work continues at home
Back in September I worked on the bed at home and edging with ‘railway sleepers’, looking back at…
Freezing weather and beans
The thermometer was gladly telling me that the high for the week had been 0c while the low…
Pottering in the (no) snow
There was no real plan this morning apart from taking pictures of the allotment in the snow that…
Cutting down the Hop
An annual job to cut down the hop bush. At this time of the year the garden is…
Just a walk to get bits for tea…
There is not much to do at the plot, nor in the garden. Both are pretty wet and…
No more cherry tree
I’m not sure how I feel about people who plant trees on allotment plots, they are such a…
2020 Summary
A quick summary of 2020… January I planted out some more broadbeans after mice/rats eat some of the…
Deep freeze in the garden
We don’t have frost that often, but when we do it stays in the garden for days. The…
Zombies, coffee and cow poo
Let’s start with the coffee, and the zombies… It’s been an interesting week with a mixture of it…
Frosty Parsnips and Gooseberries
It seems almost as exciting as snow these days, we don’t get much frost on the south coast…
Digging the garden
This is the year of “no no-dig” I feel. Part of growing for me is the digging, I…
Pruning Things
Not only did I have the afternoon off work, but it was (cold) sunny too. Knowing that it…
Digging Weed Roots
Finished off digging the space next to the gooseberries. The gooseberry bushes will move over the next month…
A quarter of the parsnips
Because I planted four rows on the plot and only about a quarter of them survived which was…
More poo in the garden
I will need more bags of it too I fear. I emptied another three bags of rotted down…
Beans and Cabbages
The other week I sowed broad beans direct in the ground at the plot while also sowing some…
Mini red cabbage and fennel
The only reason for visiting the plot this morning was to take up some chopped up bush clippings…
Just a winter late afternoon visit
It was a bit windy, certainly a bit rainy and within an hour it would be dark, but…
Fire time
Maybe once or twice a year we have a fire on the plot to get rid of general…
Pulling carrots in the rain
I sowed celeriac back in the spring, looked after the seedlings as they grew, kept them watered and…
Making the most of the sun and the day light
Probably the only sunny and clear day for a little while and certainly the last chance for an…
Planting Garlic
We had so much garlic this year, not the best looking but quantity overruled quality it seems and…
Pottering in the (early) autumn sun
No real plan this morning, but after a couple of days of rain I thought a visit in…
Garden taking shape
I’ve done as much as I can with edging the plot in the garden, half is done but…
Climbing trees, again
Our Wednesday evening visits to the plot with Tom continue, helped a lot by me finishing work a…
Planting peas and beans
The first lot of planting at the plot for a while, peas and broad beans both a variety…
Working in the Garden
After a summer of pondering and planning, I finally ordered the wood and it turned up, it was…
Prepping Beds
There is not a lot going on at the plot, it’s all happening in the garden at home…
Using our own compost
Part of the idea of tidying up the compost area was to actually empty out the compost so…
Starting to Tidy
It has been on the list for months, tidying up the area around the compost bins. We still…
Garden plans and strawberry beds
When we dug over the lawn in the garden we had no real plan apart from having a…
Evening visits in the heat
All of last week was so super hot we ended up doing quite a lot of visits to…
Super hot and it’s only 10am
I purposely went up to the plot at 6am in order to beat the hot weather, my first…
Late Night Poo
It is noticeable that evenings are getting darker earlier, but the warm weather means it’s not a problem.…
Watering and tidying
Mostly this week we have been watering, either the garden with the water butt, or visits to the…