Growing at home
I have various in seed trays indoors: chillies – late to sow this year, probably ready to put…
Author: Steve
Venturing Out into the Wild
Three weeks, or is it four weeks, it might even be five weeks – it seems like a…
Weekly Harvest 21st April 20
21st April 2020 A quiet month for harvest not too affected by the lock down. Expenses however have…
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…
Weekly Harvest 31st March 20
31st March 2020 People seem to have decided that the allotment is a safe place that no virus…
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.…
Weekly Harvest 17th March 20
17th March 2020 I couldn’t work out what the new green shoots that had appeared over the week…
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…
Weekly Harvest 3rd March 20
3rd March 2020 Just a week of leeks, no photo but over 1kg of leeks which was a…
Weekly Harvest 18th Feb 20
18th February 2020 A small break in the bad weather gave me a chance to do a harvest.…
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…
Weekly Harvest 28th Jan 20
28st January 2020 No work on the allotment this week apart from a walk to pick bits for…
Weekly Harvest 21st Jan 20
21st January 2020 The cold day of the parsnips, I pulled up the remaining ones in the ground…
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…
Weekly Harvest 5th Jan 2020
5th January 2020 The first expense for a while in the shape of bags of spent mushroom compost.…
Broad Beans Take Two
Sowed six direct in the ground and they all came up, unfortunately mice found them and nibbled off…
Weekly Harvest 31st Dec 2019
31st December 2019 Just bringing back ingredients for soup for later on in the day… I’ve now nearly…
Weekly Harvest 24th Dec 2019
24th December 2019 A family visit to the plot to fetch veg for Christmas day. The highlights were…
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…
Weekly Harvest 10th Dec 2019
10th December 2019 It is all about leeks and sprouts, and parsnips. I found some more coloured carrots…
Unexpected moving chairs
A “quick visit” to get some parsnips and things, turned out to be a couple of hours instead.…
Weekly Harvest 3rd Dec 2019
3rd December 2019 It’s all about quick visits in the cold, rain, and mud. Winter is nearly here…
Sprouts and Potatoes
A “quick” visit in the afternoon to fetch some bits for tea and to dig up the Christmas…
Weekly Harvest 26th Nov 19
26th November 2019 A quick visit to collect food for tea, which meant taking home the first lot…
19th November 2019
19th November 2019 Money wise there is a big drop suddenly in November, but it is more because…
Fresh Poo
I picked up a number of bags of what looked like very fresh manure that has been delivered…
Weekly Harvest 12th Nov 2019
12th November 2019 Just picking vegetables for tea and I came home with a nice long parsnip and…
Fires and cabbages
Just quickly popping up to get some bits for tea, and how about burning some of the wood…
Weekly Harvest 5th Nov 2019
5th November 2019 A quick visit to tidy up and bring home carrots and some ‘leaves’ for tea.…
Broad beans and parsnips
In less than a week we have broad beans! Not quite ready to pick, infact only just showing…
Weekly Harvest 29th Oct 2019
29th October 2019 The first ever pulling of a celeriac plant, and eating afterwards. The verdict is a…
Broad beans and cold weather
The main lot of winter planting is complete now with the planting of broad beans (Aquadulce Claudia). I’ve…
Weekly Harvest 17th Oct 2019
17th October 2019 The week of the green tomatoes, this must be the last pickings of tomatoes. I’ve…
Planting Garlic
I have normally waited until just before Christmas to plant garlic and left it for six months. This…
Weekly Harvest 8th October 2019
8th October 2019 Over 1kg of tomatoes, stripping the plants of all I could find (leaving one or…
Onions and Mushrooms
We use a lot of onions and so I thought I would have a go at putting in…
Weekly Harvest 1st Oct 19
1st October 2019 No visit to the allotment this week, but I did manage to pick some tomatoes…
Weekly Harvest 24th Sept 2019
24th September There is noticeably a lot less to pick each week now, although tomatoes have liked the…
Soil and no more cucumbers
A random browse on Freegle and I noticed someone down the road from us was giving away a…
Weekly Harvest 17th September 2019
17th September We have run out of new cucumbers meaning tomatoes have replaced them for the big crop…
Slowing down
Normally I spend a good hour weeding each week but today it was done in just five minutes,…