
Rain and sun
Which means weeds have shot up during the week, I spent the first hour weeding, pulling up bindweed…
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Which means weeds have shot up during the week, I spent the first hour weeding, pulling up bindweed…
The list of things to do was long and it included a fruit cage and a greenhouse (the…
Have started, a quick 30 minutes or so after work which might have turned into an hour, or…
Overwintered onion seed plants are doing quite well on the plot although are noticeably behind the sets, which…
While it was snowing last week, this week it is sunny and each day the back garden gets…
We have been busy at home these last couple of weeks and I knew while we were absent…
Busy weekends coming up, and cold weather plus snow (I’ll believe it when I see it) forecast over…
I walked up to the plot early in the morning with a small bag of onion sets to…
I have a long list of things to start sowing undercover which I am working through bit-by-bit. I…
Give it a couple of weeks or so and I’ll be planting potatoes and onions, I thought this…
I’ve been looking at the half finished bed in the garden and thinking I’m going to have to…
Now that both the currants and the gooseberries are in the same area on the plot (and hopefully…
Back in September I worked on the bed at home and edging with ‘railway sleepers’, looking back at…
The thermometer was gladly telling me that the high for the week had been 0c while the low…
There was no real plan this morning apart from taking pictures of the allotment in the snow that…
An annual job to cut down the hop bush. At this time of the year the garden is…
There is not much to do at the plot, nor in the garden. Both are pretty wet and…
I’m not sure how I feel about people who plant trees on allotment plots, they are such a…
A quick summary of 2020… January I planted out some more broadbeans after mice/rats eat some of the…
We don’t have frost that often, but when we do it stays in the garden for days. The…
Let’s start with the coffee, and the zombies… It’s been an interesting week with a mixture of it…
It seems almost as exciting as snow these days, we don’t get much frost on the south coast…
This is the year of “no no-dig” I feel. Part of growing for me is the digging, I…
Not only did I have the afternoon off work, but it was (cold) sunny too. Knowing that it…
Finished off digging the space next to the gooseberries. The gooseberry bushes will move over the next month…
Because I planted four rows on the plot and only about a quarter of them survived which was…
I will need more bags of it too I fear. I emptied another three bags of rotted down…
The other week I sowed broad beans direct in the ground at the plot while also sowing some…
The only reason for visiting the plot this morning was to take up some chopped up bush clippings…
It was a bit windy, certainly a bit rainy and within an hour it would be dark, but…
Maybe once or twice a year we have a fire on the plot to get rid of general…
I sowed celeriac back in the spring, looked after the seedlings as they grew, kept them watered and…
Probably the only sunny and clear day for a little while and certainly the last chance for an…
We had so much garlic this year, not the best looking but quantity overruled quality it seems and…
No real plan this morning, but after a couple of days of rain I thought a visit in…
I’ve done as much as I can with edging the plot in the garden, half is done but…
Our Wednesday evening visits to the plot with Tom continue, helped a lot by me finishing work a…
The first lot of planting at the plot for a while, peas and broad beans both a variety…
After a summer of pondering and planning, I finally ordered the wood and it turned up, it was…
There is not a lot going on at the plot, it’s all happening in the garden at home…
Part of the idea of tidying up the compost area was to actually empty out the compost so…
It has been on the list for months, tidying up the area around the compost bins. We still…
When we dug over the lawn in the garden we had no real plan apart from having a…
All of last week was so super hot we ended up doing quite a lot of visits to…
I purposely went up to the plot at 6am in order to beat the hot weather, my first…
It is noticeable that evenings are getting darker earlier, but the warm weather means it’s not a problem.…
Mostly this week we have been watering, either the garden with the water butt, or visits to the…
It was a good to catch up with Richard of The Veg Grower Podcast the other evening, on…
A full day of rain of Saturday meant next day, hot and sunny, plants have liked it a…
The carrots in the garden started off well, but they have been crowded and got quite wet and…