Monthly Harvest April 26
It is a small harvest of leeks, but we are grateful for have any. The once mighty big…
Author: Steve
Damage at the plot
There have been some really windy and rainy weather during the last week, really strong consistent wind. Arriving…
Suddenly, everything grew
After long hot dry days we have had lots of rain, and the garden has loved it. In…
Monthly Harvest Mar 26
March 2026 2026 B/F £2.42 IN OUT white cabbage – 710g 1.28 parsnip – 2.1kg 1.09 kale –…
Salad from the garden
Planted out tomato plants in within the lettuce and radish. By the time the space is needed, both…
Leeks and Left Over Tomatoes
Plus a load of watering, although in theory within the next 48 hours we are about to get…
Sunny hot evenings in the garden
We have had 25c+ since the weekend, some very warm evenings and nights. Watering both the plot and…
Radish and Lettuce
Picking lots of radish and lettuce at the moment. Keeping things watered and noticed french and runner bean…
Picking lots of broad beans
I’ve been visiting in the evenings to do watering, it is super hot at the moment. I’ve been…
Picking Broad Beans
A lot of weeding after an afternoon of heavy rain followed by sun and warmth again. Spotted one…
Planting out beans
Normally I’m doing this around mid May but for some reason I decided to put the poles up…
Planting out peas
I have done half a row of mangetout and half of normal peas. The peas have been growing…
Netting over the fruit
An early morning visit to do tidying up and a bit of watering. The broad beans are starting…
Planting out in the garden
The onion sets we planted the other week are all starting to grow. I planted out lettuce and…
Starting to grow
The days are longer and the days are warmer, in just a week the growth on the plot…
Potatoes and parsnips
I started the day transplanting leek seedlings into module trays, these are now outdoors undercover instead of indoors.…
Compost in the garden
Four bags of “farmyard compost” from the garden centre. We have already planted onion sets and so had…
Just catching up tidying
First real nice sunny weekend of the year and we popped up to the plot just to do…
Parsnips out, onions in
Mid March and it all starts happening from here. At home I have transplanted chili seedlings into pots…
Sun in the garden
The running theme of 2026 so far is being behind on everything, lots of other things in life…
Back to the Plot – Take Two
It’s been a busy year so far, unfortunately not at the plot. Between constant rain and other things…
Monthly Harvest Jan 26
January 2026 A quiet month again, not much done or harvested. I was pleased to see the white…
Monthly Harvest Nov 25
November 2025 A quiet month and so not much done or harvested. I did pick up some curly…
Back to the plot
It’s been a couple of months since I’ve been on the plot for any serious amount of time,…
Monthly Harvest Oct 25
October 2025 A warm October, but not as warm as 2023 when it comes to max temperature, average…
Tidying and clearing
It has been a while since last visit and the plot was once again covered in fallen leaves,…
Garlic and More Leaves
Another week and more leaves to rake up and put on the compost. Some people store such leaves…
Garlic and Broad Beans
Now that the garden gets no direct sunlight for the next four or five months not much growing…
Leaves everywhere
It’s autumn time when the whole plot is covered in leaves. I raked them up and added them…
Monthly Harvest Sept 25
September 2025 No temperature records for September but I’m sure that if I had my rain sensor working…
Curly curly kale and catapillers
I was surprised by how well the curly kale was growing, I was able to pick my second…
New Garden Gate
We have fenced off the garden so that we have a playing area for the children on the…
Monthly Harvest Aug 25
August 2025 August temperatures did not break any records although at the beginning of the month it got…
Netting and weeding
After all the wind and rain for the whole of last week I was wondering what I would…
Hot hot hot… then wind and rain
It was suggested we would have another heat wave but if it happened we didn’t quite get it…
Harvest time in the garden
I remember the cucumber harvest of 2019 where it had 40+ of the things and I was giving…
Late night watering
Quick visits to the plot for some late night watering. It’s been hot these last days, not massively…
Sweetcorn damage on the plot
I did see reports from other plot holders saying mice or rats had eaten all their sweetcorn cobs…
Our first ever celery
Not something I’ve ever thought about trying to grow before, until I was given a packet of celery…
Monthly Harvest July 25
July 2025 We nearly got to 30c but didn’t quite make it. We did have the hottest day…
I don’t even know what I’ve planted out…
I’ve had numerous brassica plants growing undercover for a while which all need planting out, if only I…
Big harvests potato and onion time
A lot has been happening over the last couple of weeks, mostly digging potatoes and pulling up onions.…
Eating from the garden
Just before lunch we take a look in the garden and we may come back with: It’s been…
Monthly Harvest June 25
June 2025 No records broken for temperature in June although the heatwave alert did trigger near the end…
Flowering Lettuce
It looked a bit messy for a while as if I had forgotten to pull up lettuce that…
From garden to kitchen
The whole purpose of growing veg in the garden is the ability to pick and cook within minutes.…
Summer harvests
The days have been hot, it has been an actual heatwave for most of the week. Along with…
It’s suddenly summer in the garden
We’ve had rain and sun and warmth, the days are long and everything is growing. Suddenly the garden…
Monthly Harvest May 25
May 2025 Just a normal May with the weather, although a new record for the coldest May on…
Uncovering beetroot
The black netting has done a good job at keeping squirrels off and it is good in that…