Harvests from the garden
The potatoes were first to be put into the garden and while we did dig a couple up…
Leeks and netting
Breakfast outside in the sun, by the evening it seemed cold, dark, and back to winter once again.…
Evening watering and currants
For a while it feels like it is the middle of winter and then the next week it…
Wintery evening of onions
Something Tom and myself look forward to is the summer evening “pulling of the onions”, but he had…
Problem with wind…
Monday last week it started and it has not stopped, wind is a bit of a problem. The…
Day of the currants and the poo
Super windy day but at least it was sunny unlike yesterday which was like a cold winter day.…
Night of the Potatoes
Just days before lockdown we quickly planted some seed potatoes… just weeks before lockdown is mostly lifted, we…
Tidying
A lot of focus has been made on the garden, and for good reason. Everything is busy growing…
Rain – Sun – Fruit
A lot of rain, a lot of sun, meaning a lot of growing has been happening, in particular…
Cutting down trees
Maybe not the whole tree but a certain amount of branches had to go from the trees that…
Bye celeriac, hello tomatoes
They didn’t last long, less than a week after months of looking after at home. All a bit…
An early morning
I feel like I am not on top of the allotment, visits have not been much this year…
Planting sprouts
It was suggested it would be raining later on in the day and so even though it was…
Cutting back
A walk up to the allotment in the afternoon showed that following the recent cold and windy weather…
Eating radish
The first lot of radish were sown at the beginning of March, then instead of being taken up…
Back to the Plot – for now
Let us not get over excited, all the talk by the media of relaxing lock down (have they…
French beans and parsnips
In the garden, a warm sunny morning has followed a number of rainy (but not cold) days has…
Obsessed with Parsnips!
All this staying at home, I’m starting to be obsessive about parsnips! Last year was a first try…
Growing at home
I have various in seed trays indoors: chillies – late to sow this year, probably ready to put…
Venturing Out into the Wild
Three weeks, or is it four weeks, it might even be five weeks – it seems like a…
Seedlings and peas
It had rained most of yesterday and bits during the night, the morning was not looking too promising…
Parsnips, carrots,a lot of seeds – and compost
It shows just how much we have done on the allotment with the soil, lots of organic matter…
Bringing things closer to home
We had planned to do something with the lawn this year, maybe a bit of paving to put…
Radish in a Pot
It is sunny and inviting outside, the clocks have changed, it seems an ideal morning to look at…
A Dash for the Leeks
I think of it as you “can” go to the allotment, but I think “should” you? I also…
Potatoes and Onions
We walked up to the allotment in the afternoon armed with bags of seed potatoes and onion sets.…
Getting things ready
With all the bad weather since Christmas it is hard to believe it is time to start doing…
Larger Strawberries…
I had a bit of a list to work through, it was the first non-cold, non-raining morning for…
2019 – The Stats
Everyone likes spreadsheets and numbers, here is 2019 in numbers… These figures are from the year’s worth of…
Sprouts, Swedes and Woodchip
Due to commitments and weather I have not been to the plot for a number of weeks. A…
The hop plant
Just over five years ago I was given a “grow your own beer” gift as a present, I…
Parsnips, Poo, and Frost
January can be pretty brutal when it wants to be, while at the same time it can be…
2019 Summary
A quick month-by-month summary of 2019…. January planted more garlic, possibly a bit late as quite a lot…
Broad Beans Take Two
Sowed six direct in the ground and they all came up, unfortunately mice found them and nibbled off…
Planting (more) Garlic
Traditionally on the shortest day of the year to be pulled on the longest. I planted in November…
Chopping Trees
Not quite, chopping branches off of trees instead, ones that come over from the field and shadow the…
Unexpected moving chairs
A “quick visit” to get some parsnips and things, turned out to be a couple of hours instead.…
Sprouts and Potatoes
A “quick” visit in the afternoon to fetch some bits for tea and to dig up the Christmas…
Fresh Poo
I picked up a number of bags of what looked like very fresh manure that has been delivered…
Fires and cabbages
Just quickly popping up to get some bits for tea, and how about burning some of the wood…
Broad beans and parsnips
In less than a week we have broad beans! Not quite ready to pick, infact only just showing…
Broad beans and cold weather
The main lot of winter planting is complete now with the planting of broad beans (Aquadulce Claudia). I’ve…
Planting Garlic
I have normally waited until just before Christmas to plant garlic and left it for six months. This…
Onions and Mushrooms
We use a lot of onions and so I thought I would have a go at putting in…
Soil and no more cucumbers
A random browse on Freegle and I noticed someone down the road from us was giving away a…
Slowing down
Normally I spend a good hour weeding each week but today it was done in just five minutes,…
Tidying up – autumn is coming
On Thursday you could still convince yourself it was summer, on Friday you knew that autumn would soon…
Tomatoes and Paths
They were saying it was going to be a really hot and sunny bank holiday weekend and so…
Swedes and potatoes
More wind, more rain means the runner beans have gone the same way as they did last year,…
Wind and Rain Damage?
There appears to actually be none apart from a snapped bean pole. After the load of wind and…