Left over potatoes and cutting grass
A hot and sunny afternoon doing small bits around the plot. I planted some borlotti beans, seeds given…
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Lots of Weeding – no Rain
It didn’t rain in April and so I have been watering both at home and at the plot.…
Peas in the Garden
I was just going out in the garden to sow some runner and french bean seeds, but to…
Earthing Up Potatoes – sowing carrots
A quick visit to the plot to sow a row of carrots and beetroot. While there I noticed…
Potatoes all in…
An early morning start at the plot, and why not with the good Easter weather we were having.…
More potatoes and onions
Overwintered onion seed plants are doing quite well on the plot although are noticeably behind the sets, which…
Harvests from the garden
The potatoes were first to be put into the garden and while we did dig a couple up…
Night of the Potatoes
Just days before lockdown we quickly planted some seed potatoes… just weeks before lockdown is mostly lifted, we…
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.…
Sprouts and Potatoes
A “quick” visit in the afternoon to fetch some bits for tea and to dig up the Christmas…
Swedes and potatoes
More wind, more rain means the runner beans have gone the same way as they did last year,…
Potatoes
We dug up the first half last week, this week we were late in the evening digging up…
Banking up potatoes
A super early start because it was forecast to be super hot all day, and because I thought…
Potatoes, onions and sowing seed
An early morning planting onions and potatoes, mixed with a bit of weeding. I put in millions of…
Garlic and Potatoes
An escape for myself and Tom from the frustrations of computers and technology, we went off to plant…
The Morning After
I got up early and waited until it was light enough to go out, but by that time…
The day of the turnips
A quick visit to mulch around the rest of the current bushes with cardboard and manure. There…
Carrots and paths
Not much on the list of things to do this morning, so I generally pottered about and weeded. …
Millions of Tomatoes
The Christmas potatoes had all come up and so I filled in the trench that they are planted…
How long were we away?
We went away for just the weekend, but when we came back the plot looked a lot different,…
Christmas Potatoes
After all the prep, this morning I planted the potatoes that might just do something in time for…
Ready for Potatoes
Could this be our last mid week evening visit, there is not much daylight left in the evenings…
Turnips and Beetroot
Some serious rain over the last couple of days, I know only too well as I was cycling…
Hose Pipes and Talking to People
Hot summer days means people are on their plots early in the morning, previous times it was just…
Late evening kale
Maybe I have left it a bit late to plant the kale plants out from their pots in…
A life with no Water
We shall all surely die, it hasn’t rained for years (or maybe just days/weeks) and the prospect of…
Uncovered
The plastic sheeting that has covered the plot since around Christmas time was fully removed today showing for…
Potatoes and Onions
Easter means potato planting time, and it might as well mean onion set planting time too. On the…
Christmas Potatoes Planted
We did this last year using old supermarket potatoes we found in the back of the cupboard, and…
Potato Harvest for 2010
These were early potatoes but we planted them a month late and so it made sense that we…
Going to Seed?
We have had a very hot July so far which has meant watering first thing in the morning…
Potato Growth
These are actually looking quite good and with the rain and the sun these last days they are…
Potato Sacks Now Full
They just grow and grow, the sacks are now completely full, all that is left is to water…
Topping up Potatoes
The cats have kept off the potato bags and green shoots are starting to be seen. Tonight we…
Potatoes planted at last!
Whoops, we are a bit late with our potato project, about a month late really as these were…
Potatoes for Schools – Chitting
A scheme being run by the UK Potato Council for schools is the Grow Your Own Potatoes programme.…
Potatoes for Schools – Chitting
A scheme being run by the UK Potato Council for schools is the Grow Your Own Potatoes programme. …
Christmas New Potatoes
A little story of success! We found an old potato on the back of the cupboard (not a…
Christmas New Potatoes
A little story of success! We found an old potato on the back of the cupboard (not a…
Christmas Potatoes
Checking on the Christmas potatoes shows very spindly plants. These have had to put up with a lot,…
Christmas Potatoes Showing
I was quite surprised the other day when I took a look and noticed green shoots of the…
Digging the Potatoes 2009
It is such a long term project, you plant them and then you wait and wait and wait. …
Signs of Potato Flowers
Watering each day and all looking good. Spotted signs of flowers.
Potatoes look very healthy
A mixture of sun, warm weather, and now rain, it has been a good couple of weeks for…
Earthing up Potatoes
A mixture of bad weather and a lot of late nights from work has meant that we have…
Rooster Potatoes Planted
I read my notes from last year and we left it a bit late for planting potatoes and…
w18 Potatoes dug up
The great things about potatoes, you put them in and they sprout. They all look nice and green,…
w17 Should dig up those potatoes
We don’t know what type of potato they are, but I think now we are in august it…
@week 13 – potato flowers
We have flowers on the potatoes. I didn’t really know if we would get any flowers, not knowing…