A Dash for the Leeks SteveMarch 25, 2020 I think of it as you “can” go to the allotment, but I think “should” you? I also…
Potatoes and Onions SteveMarch 22, 2020 We walked up to the allotment in the afternoon armed with bags of seed potatoes and onion sets.…
Getting things ready SteveMarch 15, 2020March 15, 2020 With all the bad weather since Christmas it is hard to believe it is time to start doing…
Larger Strawberries… SteveMarch 8, 2020 I had a bit of a list to work through, it was the first non-cold, non-raining morning for…
2019 – The Stats SteveMarch 4, 2020March 4, 2020 Everyone likes spreadsheets and numbers, here is 2019 in numbers… These figures are from the year’s worth of…
Sprouts, Swedes and Woodchip SteveFebruary 15, 2020April 5, 2020 Due to commitments and weather I have not been to the plot for a number of weeks. A…
The hop plant SteveFebruary 2, 2020February 2, 2020 Just over five years ago I was given a “grow your own beer” gift as a present, I…
Parsnips, Poo, and Frost SteveJanuary 18, 2020April 5, 2020 January can be pretty brutal when it wants to be, while at the same time it can be…
2019 Summary SteveJanuary 8, 2020January 1, 2022 A quick month-by-month summary of 2019…. January planted more garlic, possibly a bit late as quite a lot…
Broad Beans Take Two SteveJanuary 5, 2020 Sowed six direct in the ground and they all came up, unfortunately mice found them and nibbled off…
Planting (more) Garlic SteveDecember 21, 2019 Traditionally on the shortest day of the year to be pulled on the longest. I planted in November…
Chopping Trees SteveDecember 19, 2019December 19, 2019 Not quite, chopping branches off of trees instead, ones that come over from the field and shadow the…
Unexpected moving chairs SteveDecember 8, 2019December 12, 2019 A “quick visit” to get some parsnips and things, turned out to be a couple of hours instead.…
Sprouts and Potatoes SteveNovember 30, 2019 A “quick” visit in the afternoon to fetch some bits for tea and to dig up the Christmas…
Fresh Poo SteveNovember 17, 2019November 18, 2019 I picked up a number of bags of what looked like very fresh manure that has been delivered…
Fires and cabbages SteveNovember 10, 2019 Just quickly popping up to get some bits for tea, and how about burning some of the wood…
Broad beans and parsnips SteveNovember 3, 2019 In less than a week we have broad beans! Not quite ready to pick, infact only just showing…
Broad beans and cold weather SteveOctober 28, 2019October 28, 2019 The main lot of winter planting is complete now with the planting of broad beans (Aquadulce Claudia). I’ve…
Planting Garlic SteveOctober 12, 2019October 12, 2019 I have normally waited until just before Christmas to plant garlic and left it for six months. This…
Onions and Mushrooms SteveOctober 5, 2019October 6, 2019 We use a lot of onions and so I thought I would have a go at putting in…
Soil and no more cucumbers SteveSeptember 21, 2019September 29, 2019 A random browse on Freegle and I noticed someone down the road from us was giving away a…
Slowing down SteveSeptember 14, 2019September 17, 2019 Normally I spend a good hour weeding each week but today it was done in just five minutes,…
Tidying up – autumn is coming SteveSeptember 7, 2019September 7, 2019 On Thursday you could still convince yourself it was summer, on Friday you knew that autumn would soon…
Tomatoes and Paths SteveAugust 25, 2019 They were saying it was going to be a really hot and sunny bank holiday weekend and so…
Swedes and potatoes SteveAugust 17, 2019 More wind, more rain means the runner beans have gone the same way as they did last year,…
Wind and Rain Damage? SteveAugust 13, 2019August 13, 2019 There appears to actually be none apart from a snapped bean pole. After the load of wind and…
Pathways and weeding SteveAugust 3, 2019April 5, 2020 It was interesting to see if there had been any damage at the plot following two days of…
Super Hot SteveJuly 27, 2019 The night time temperature was mid 20c and by the morning it was back up to 30. It…
Night of the Onions SteveJuly 21, 2019April 5, 2020 An evening visit with Tom to pull all the onions now they had died back. This included the…
Night of the Peas SteveJuly 13, 2019July 14, 2019 After the attack of the little black beetles the other month, the remaining carrots have survived under the…
Potatoes SteveJuly 6, 2019 We dug up the first half last week, this week we were late in the evening digging up…
Weekend of Fruit SteveJune 30, 2019 The hot weather has helped with the soft fruit, which I had planned to pick a load off…
Garlic and rain than lots of sun SteveJune 24, 2019 All a bit behind, I’ve had sprout and calabrese plants under cover in pots really wanting to be…
Wind, Rain, Slugs, Flea Beetles? SteveJune 15, 2019June 15, 2019 We had only been away for a week but since then we had gone through various extreme seasons,…
Suddenly… everything needed planting SteveJune 2, 2019 An attempt to empty the pots and plant out anything that looked like it would rather be in…
Celeriac and strawberries SteveMay 27, 2019 Mid week afternoon visit and surprised how dry and needing a watering everything was. I gave everything a…
Planting Out SteveMay 19, 2019 A super sunny weekend which promised likewise for the weekend but turned out not to be. That was…
Hailstones and sun SteveMay 11, 2019May 11, 2019 I thought it wise to wait until the afternoon when it said it would stop looking so miserable…
Stopping Birds SteveMay 6, 2019May 21, 2019 Last year we had two gooseberries before the birds found them and overnight stripped the bushes of everything,…
Hannah and leeks SteveApril 28, 2019April 28, 2019 The day before, I left (storm) Hannah alone at the plot while I transplanted seedlings into larger pots.…
Banking up potatoes SteveApril 20, 2019April 20, 2019 A super early start because it was forecast to be super hot all day, and because I thought…
Sow Sow Sow SteveApril 14, 2019April 14, 2019 It’s it not moving then I sowed it, if it wasn’t moving fast enough then I probably had…
Broad beans and radish SteveApril 6, 2019April 6, 2019 After sowing and putting outside undercover, one lot in the small plastic greenhouse and the other round the…
Seeds SteveMarch 30, 2019March 30, 2019 Not much on the plot but lots of seed sowing at home, including: turnips calabrese peas cabbage Also…
Potatoes, onions and sowing seed SteveMarch 24, 2019March 24, 2019 An early morning planting onions and potatoes, mixed with a bit of weeding. I put in millions of…
Just Pottering SteveMarch 9, 2019March 10, 2019 There was no need to go to the plot, apart from to pull up some leeks as we…
Early Sowing 2019 SteveMarch 2, 2019March 2, 2019 I planted chili seeds last week and today they had come up and ready to be moved from…
Mulching Gooseberries SteveFebruary 23, 2019February 23, 2019 A sunny winters day with blue skies…. I didn’t have much need to go to the allotment but…
2018 – The Good & the Bad SteveFebruary 18, 2019February 18, 2019 A lot of different to last time when we had an allotment, in 2001 we took on a…
Sprouts and Wind… SteveFebruary 9, 2019February 9, 2019 While sunny, it was windy and the forecast was that it was going to get worse throughout the…