Weekly Harvest 17th Oct 2019
17th October 2019 The week of the green tomatoes, this must be the last pickings of tomatoes. I’ve…
Author: Steve
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,…
Weekly Harvest 10th Sept 2019
10th September . Lots of beetroot with the idea that I will pickle some of them as currently…
Tidying up – autumn is coming
On Thursday you could still convince yourself it was summer, on Friday you knew that autumn would soon…
Weekly Harvest 3rd Sept 2019
3rd September Not much this week as we have been away, but I knew there would be a…
Weekly Harvest 27th Aug 2019
27th August Finally we have had tomatoes, all it needed was some actual warm and sunny days and…
Tomatoes and Paths
They were saying it was going to be a really hot and sunny bank holiday weekend and so…
Weekly Harvest 20th August 2019
20th August After the week of the cucumbers… they came back for another week – I’ve been giving…
Swedes and potatoes
More wind, more rain means the runner beans have gone the same way as they did last year,…
Wind and Rain Damage?
There appears to actually be none apart from a snapped bean pole. After the load of wind and…
Weekly Harvest 13th August 2019
13th August Last visit I picked all the cucumbers I could see, today there were 13 new ones…
Pathways and weeding
It was interesting to see if there had been any damage at the plot following two days of…
Weekly Harvest 30th July 2019
30th July Cucumbers all over the place, each time we visit there is a load more and it…
Super Hot
The night time temperature was mid 20c and by the morning it was back up to 30. It…
Weekly Harvest 23th July 2019
23th July I’ve been watching the onions slowly dying back over the last month and each time thinking…
Night of the Onions
An evening visit with Tom to pull all the onions now they had died back. This included the…
Weekly Harvest 16th July 2019
16th July I wasn’t sure if the peas were ready last week, I was pretty sure they were…
Night of the Peas
After the attack of the little black beetles the other month, the remaining carrots have survived under the…
Weekly Harvest 9th July 2019
9th July The week of the potatoes, we dug them all up, dried them off, and now they…
Potatoes
We dug up the first half last week, this week we were late in the evening digging up…
Weekly Harvest 2nd July 2019
2nd July The over winter onions were not planned, someone gave them to us late in the season…
Weekend of Fruit
The hot weather has helped with the soft fruit, which I had planned to pick a load off…
Weekly Harvest 25th June
25th June The week of the strawberries, nearly 1kg of them and a lot of them didn’t make…
Garlic and rain than lots of sun
All a bit behind, I’ve had sprout and calabrese plants under cover in pots really wanting to be…
18th June 2019
18th June Our first lot of potatoes and constant supply of strawberries and broad beans. I won’t forget…
Wind, Rain, Slugs, Flea Beetles?
We had only been away for a week but since then we had gone through various extreme seasons,…
Weekly Harvest 11th June 2019
11th June Not much harvested due to going away, but we have had a full punnet of strawberries…
Weekly Harvest 4th June 19
4th June It’s about time we mentioned the chilies growing at home, we have been picking them this…
Suddenly… everything needed planting
An attempt to empty the pots and plant out anything that looked like it would rather be in…
28th May 2019
28th May So many large broad bean pods to pick, our first lot of strawberries, large and full…
Celeriac and strawberries
Mid week afternoon visit and surprised how dry and needing a watering everything was. I gave everything a…
21st May 2019
21st May Over wintered broad beans filling out and now getting large beans from pickings. Rhubarb is hold…
Planting Out
A super sunny weekend which promised likewise for the weekend but turned out not to be. That was…
14th May 2019
14th May The last lot of the March sown radish, which had grown a bit large over the…
Hailstones and sun
I thought it wise to wait until the afternoon when it said it would stop looking so miserable…
7th May 2019
7th May Not much, just radish and rhubarb – busy eating leeks and sprouts from the freezer. B/F…
Stopping Birds
Last year we had two gooseberries before the birds found them and overnight stripped the bushes of everything,…
30th April 2019
22nd April The last of the leeks, pulled up the remaining lot. The first radish! Seed compost that…
Hannah and leeks
The day before, I left (storm) Hannah alone at the plot while I transplanted seedlings into larger pots.…
22nd April 2019
22nd April B/F £6.46 IN OUT Rhubarb – 312g £1.19 Leeks – 192g £0.48 Chard – 181g £0.84…
Banking up potatoes
A super early start because it was forecast to be super hot all day, and because I thought…
Sow Sow Sow
It’s it not moving then I sowed it, if it wasn’t moving fast enough then I probably had…
14th April 2019
14th April B/F £2.69 IN OUT Rhubarb – 548g £2.74 Leeks – 281g £0.70 Chard – 103g £0.33…