Weekly Harvest 13th Oct 20
13th October 2020 October is the most expensive month being the time to pay the yearly plot fees.…
Author: Steve
Planting Garlic
We had so much garlic this year, not the best looking but quantity overruled quality it seems and…
Weekly Harvest 6th Oct 20
We have been watching for months, the small butternut squash fruits slowly growing… Some even managed to get…
Weekly Harvest 29th Sept 20
29th September 2020 A bit of a surprise from the large carrots from the plot, both normal orange…
Pottering in the (early) autumn sun
No real plan this morning, but after a couple of days of rain I thought a visit in…
Garden taking shape
I’ve done as much as I can with edging the plot in the garden, half is done but…
22nd Sept Weekly Harvest
22nd September 2020 Cucamelons and tomatoes following a bit of a warm and sunny week. It’ a race…
Climbing trees, again
Our Wednesday evening visits to the plot with Tom continue, helped a lot by me finishing work a…
Weekly Harvest 15th Sept 20
15th September 2020 We are pacing ourselves with white cabbage having picked one a couple of weeks ago…
Planting peas and beans
The first lot of planting at the plot for a while, peas and broad beans both a variety…
Weekly Harvest 8th Sept20
8th September 2020 Rather lacking on harvest photos as we just pick them as needed from the garden…
Working in the Garden
After a summer of pondering and planning, I finally ordered the wood and it turned up, it was…
Prepping Beds
There is not a lot going on at the plot, it’s all happening in the garden at home…
Weekly Harvest 1st Sept 20
1st September 2020 It feels cold these days and a warm chicken casserole means we need autumn vegetables…
Using our own compost
Part of the idea of tidying up the compost area was to actually empty out the compost so…
Starting to Tidy
It has been on the list for months, tidying up the area around the compost bins. We still…
Weekly Harvest 25th Aug 20
25th August 2020 We found then left over under the stairs, we planted them, we watched them grow…
Garden plans and strawberry beds
When we dug over the lawn in the garden we had no real plan apart from having a…
Evening visits in the heat
All of last week was so super hot we ended up doing quite a lot of visits to…
Weekly Harvest 18th Aug 20
18th August 2020 We have waited long enough for cucamelons, they have been growing very slowly for months…
Weekly Harvest 11th Aug 20
11th August 2020 This year it seems like smaller harvests, but then this year we have things growing…
Super hot and it’s only 10am
I purposely went up to the plot at 6am in order to beat the hot weather, my first…
Late Night Poo
It is noticeable that evenings are getting darker earlier, but the warm weather means it’s not a problem.…
Weekly Harvest 4th Aug 20
4th August 2020 I had another go at blackberry picking and returned with loads once again. that’s probably…
Watering and tidying
Mostly this week we have been watering, either the garden with the water butt, or visits to the…
Podcast
It was a good to catch up with Richard of The Veg Grower Podcast the other evening, on…
Weekly Harvest 28th July 20
28th July 2020 2020 B/F £142.54 IN OUT Chilies – 30g £0.51 French Beans – 91g £0.61 Lettuce…
Blackberries, swedes, courgettes – and paths
A full day of rain of Saturday meant next day, hot and sunny, plants have liked it a…
One last lot of carrots
The carrots in the garden started off well, but they have been crowded and got quite wet and…
Weekly Harvest 21st July 20
21st July 2020 More onions, more potatoes, this time from the garden. The onions were left over from…
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.…
Weekly Harvest 14th July 20
14th July 2020 The last of the big harvest items, onions. The second lot of onions from the…
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…
Weekly Harvest 7th July 20
7th July 2020 A welcome return to french beans, we had success with these in our first year…
Problem with wind…
Monday last week it started and it has not stopped, wind is a bit of a problem. The…
Weekly Harvest 30th June 20
30th June 2020 The week of fruit and onions. Super pleased with the over wintered onions which were…
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…
Weekly Harvest 23rd June 20
23rd June 2020 The week of the raspberries, every visit included a raspberry picking session. We have now…
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…
Weekly Harvest 16th June 20
16th June 2020 The start of the “big three” harvests with pulling of the garlic (the other two…
Cutting down trees
Maybe not the whole tree but a certain amount of branches had to go from the trees that…
Weekly Harvest 9th June 20
9th June 2020 No radish, maybe next week the long white icicle ones might be ready. We have…
Bye celeriac, hello tomatoes
They didn’t last long, less than a week after months of looking after at home. All a bit…
Weekly Harvest 2nd June 20
2nd June 2020 It’s not yet time to pull the garlic, although it does look like I could…
An early morning
I feel like I am not on top of the allotment, visits have not been much this year…
Weekly Harvest 26th May 20
26th May 2020 We are pulling a lot of radish each day at the moment, the first time…