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Rain and sun

SteveMay 10, 2021

Which means weeds have shot up during the week, I spent the first hour weeding, pulling up bindweed…

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The Longest (busiest) Day

SteveMay 2, 2021May 2, 2021

The list of things to do was long and it included a fruit cage and a greenhouse (the…

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Evening Visits

SteveApril 23, 2021April 22, 2021

Have started, a quick 30 minutes or so after work which might have turned into an hour, or…

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More potatoes and onions

SteveApril 19, 2021April 18, 2021

Overwintered onion seed plants are doing quite well on the plot although are noticeably behind the sets, which…

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More sowing at home

SteveApril 18, 2021April 18, 2021

While it was snowing last week, this week it is sunny and each day the back garden gets…

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So much rhubarb

SteveApril 11, 2021

We have been busy at home these last couple of weeks and I knew while we were absent…

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Potatoes are go…

SteveApril 1, 2021

Busy weekends coming up, and cold weather plus snow (I’ll believe it when I see it) forecast over…

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Onions and rhubarb

SteveMarch 27, 2021

I walked up to the plot early in the morning with a small bag of onion sets to…

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Just sowing…

SteveMarch 21, 2021

I have a long list of things to start sowing undercover which I am working through bit-by-bit. I…

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Prepping the beds

SteveMarch 14, 2021

Give it a couple of weeks or so and I’ll be planting potatoes and onions, I thought this…

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New Poo… and garden bed finished

SteveMarch 7, 2021

I’ve been looking at the half finished bed in the garden and thinking I’m going to have to…

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Repotting & Sun on the Plot

SteveMarch 2, 2021

Now that both the currants and the gooseberries are in the same area on the plot (and hopefully…

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Work continues at home

SteveFebruary 27, 2021

Back in September I worked on the bed at home and edging with ‘railway sleepers’, looking back at…

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Freezing weather and beans

SteveFebruary 20, 2021

The thermometer was gladly telling me that the high for the week had been 0c while the low…

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Pottering in the (no) snow

SteveFebruary 7, 2021

There was no real plan this morning apart from taking pictures of the allotment in the snow that…

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Cutting down the Hop

SteveFebruary 6, 2021

An annual job to cut down the hop bush. At this time of the year the garden is…

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Just a walk to get bits for tea…

SteveJanuary 31, 2021

There is not much to do at the plot, nor in the garden. Both are pretty wet and…

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No more cherry tree

SteveJanuary 23, 2021

I’m not sure how I feel about people who plant trees on allotment plots, they are such a…

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2020 Summary

SteveJanuary 17, 2021January 1, 2022

A quick summary of 2020… January I planted out some more broadbeans after mice/rats eat some of the…

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Deep freeze in the garden

SteveJanuary 10, 2021January 9, 2021

We don’t have frost that often, but when we do it stays in the garden for days. The…

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Zombies, coffee and cow poo

SteveJanuary 9, 2021

Let’s start with the coffee, and the zombies… It’s been an interesting week with a mixture of it…

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Frosty Parsnips and Gooseberries

SteveDecember 31, 2020December 31, 2020

It seems almost as exciting as snow these days, we don’t get much frost on the south coast…

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Digging the garden

SteveDecember 19, 2020

This is the year of “no no-dig” I feel. Part of growing for me is the digging, I…

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Pruning Things

SteveDecember 18, 2020

Not only did I have the afternoon off work, but it was (cold) sunny too. Knowing that it…

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Digging Weed Roots

SteveDecember 13, 2020

Finished off digging the space next to the gooseberries. The gooseberry bushes will move over the next month…

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A quarter of the parsnips

SteveDecember 6, 2020

Because I planted four rows on the plot and only about a quarter of them survived which was…

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More poo in the garden

SteveNovember 30, 2020November 29, 2020

I will need more bags of it too I fear. I emptied another three bags of rotted down…

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Beans and Cabbages

SteveNovember 29, 2020

The other week I sowed broad beans direct in the ground at the plot while also sowing some…

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Mini red cabbage and fennel

SteveNovember 22, 2020

The only reason for visiting the plot this morning was to take up some chopped up bush clippings…

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Just a winter late afternoon visit

SteveNovember 15, 2020

It was a bit windy, certainly a bit rainy and within an hour it would be dark, but…

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Fire time

SteveNovember 8, 2020November 8, 2020

Maybe once or twice a year we have a fire on the plot to get rid of general…

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Pulling carrots in the rain

SteveOctober 25, 2020

I sowed celeriac back in the spring, looked after the seedlings as they grew, kept them watered and…

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Making the most of the sun and the day light

SteveOctober 22, 2020

Probably the only sunny and clear day for a little while and certainly the last chance for an…

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Planting Garlic

SteveOctober 9, 2020October 10, 2020

We had so much garlic this year, not the best looking but quantity overruled quality it seems and…

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Pottering in the (early) autumn sun

SteveSeptember 26, 2020

No real plan this morning, but after a couple of days of rain I thought a visit in…

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Garden taking shape

SteveSeptember 23, 2020September 22, 2020

I’ve done as much as I can with edging the plot in the garden, half is done but…

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Climbing trees, again

SteveSeptember 16, 2020September 16, 2020

Our Wednesday evening visits to the plot with Tom continue, helped a lot by me finishing work a…

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Planting peas and beans

SteveSeptember 13, 2020

The first lot of planting at the plot for a while, peas and broad beans both a variety…

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Working in the Garden

SteveSeptember 6, 2020

After a summer of pondering and planning, I finally ordered the wood and it turned up, it was…

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Prepping Beds

SteveSeptember 5, 2020

There is not a lot going on at the plot, it’s all happening in the garden at home…

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Using our own compost

SteveAugust 31, 2020

Part of the idea of tidying up the compost area was to actually empty out the compost so…

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Starting to Tidy

SteveAugust 26, 2020

It has been on the list for months, tidying up the area around the compost bins. We still…

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Garden plans and strawberry beds

SteveAugust 23, 2020

When we dug over the lawn in the garden we had no real plan apart from having a…

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Evening visits in the heat

SteveAugust 19, 2020

All of last week was so super hot we ended up doing quite a lot of visits to…

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Super hot and it’s only 10am

SteveAugust 9, 2020

I purposely went up to the plot at 6am in order to beat the hot weather, my first…

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Late Night Poo

SteveAugust 5, 2020

It is noticeable that evenings are getting darker earlier, but the warm weather means it’s not a problem.…

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Watering and tidying

SteveAugust 2, 2020

Mostly this week we have been watering, either the garden with the water butt, or visits to the…

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Podcast

SteveJuly 30, 2020July 30, 2020

It was a good to catch up with Richard of The Veg Grower Podcast the other evening, on…

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Blackberries, swedes, courgettes – and paths

SteveJuly 27, 2020

A full day of rain of Saturday meant next day, hot and sunny, plants have liked it a…

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One last lot of carrots

SteveJuly 22, 2020

The carrots in the garden started off well, but they have been crowded and got quite wet and…

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