
The day of the potatoes
A month later than I would had wanted, due to the bad weather, I finally dug up the…
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A month later than I would had wanted, due to the bad weather, I finally dug up the…
No longer working for home, for now, means I can’t finish work and be on the plot before…
So far with Easter weather, promised to be windy and unsettled, has turned out to be warm with…
Sun, a small bit of warmth, but plenty of rain means the plot and it’s bindweed was in…
Easter weekend was set to be super sunny for the most part (BRITS SIZZLE IN EASTER HEATWAVE.. as…
It was starting to get a bit tedious, constant watering every other day which by the time you…
An advantage of having some of the food growing in the garden is that it is not only…
The potatoes on the plot certainly were in need of water when I visited in the evening, hopefully…
A hot and sunny afternoon doing small bits around the plot. I planted some borlotti beans, seeds given…
It didn’t rain in April and so I have been watering both at home and at the plot.…
I was just going out in the garden to sow some runner and french bean seeds, but to…
A quick visit to the plot to sow a row of carrots and beetroot. While there I noticed…
An early morning start at the plot, and why not with the good Easter weather we were having.…
Overwintered onion seed plants are doing quite well on the plot although are noticeably behind the sets, which…
The potatoes were first to be put into the garden and while we did dig a couple up…
Just days before lockdown we quickly planted some seed potatoes… just weeks before lockdown is mostly lifted, we…
I think of it as you “can” go to the allotment, but I think “should” you? I also…
We walked up to the allotment in the afternoon armed with bags of seed potatoes and onion sets.…
A “quick” visit in the afternoon to fetch some bits for tea and to dig up the Christmas…
More wind, more rain means the runner beans have gone the same way as they did last year,…
We dug up the first half last week, this week we were late in the evening digging up…
A super early start because it was forecast to be super hot all day, and because I thought…
An early morning planting onions and potatoes, mixed with a bit of weeding. I put in millions of…
An escape for myself and Tom from the frustrations of computers and technology, we went off to plant…
I got up early and waited until it was light enough to go out, but by that time…
A quick visit to mulch around the rest of the current bushes with cardboard and manure. There…
Not much on the list of things to do this morning, so I generally pottered about and weeded. …
The Christmas potatoes had all come up and so I filled in the trench that they are planted…
We went away for just the weekend, but when we came back the plot looked a lot different,…
After all the prep, this morning I planted the potatoes that might just do something in time for…
Could this be our last mid week evening visit, there is not much daylight left in the evenings…
Some serious rain over the last couple of days, I know only too well as I was cycling…
Hot summer days means people are on their plots early in the morning, previous times it was just…
Maybe I have left it a bit late to plant the kale plants out from their pots in…
We shall all surely die, it hasn’t rained for years (or maybe just days/weeks) and the prospect of…
The plastic sheeting that has covered the plot since around Christmas time was fully removed today showing for…
Easter means potato planting time, and it might as well mean onion set planting time too. On the…
We did this last year using old supermarket potatoes we found in the back of the cupboard, and…
These were early potatoes but we planted them a month late and so it made sense that we…
We have had a very hot July so far which has meant watering first thing in the morning…
These are actually looking quite good and with the rain and the sun these last days they are…
They just grow and grow, the sacks are now completely full, all that is left is to water…
The cats have kept off the potato bags and green shoots are starting to be seen. Tonight we…
Whoops, we are a bit late with our potato project, about a month late really as these were…
A scheme being run by the UK Potato Council for schools is the Grow Your Own Potatoes programme.…
A scheme being run by the UK Potato Council for schools is the Grow Your Own Potatoes programme. …
A little story of success! We found an old potato on the back of the cupboard (not a…
A little story of success! We found an old potato on the back of the cupboard (not a…
Checking on the Christmas potatoes shows very spindly plants. These have had to put up with a lot,…
I was quite surprised the other day when I took a look and noticed green shoots of the…