Sprouts, leeks, decking
Tom and myself went for a quick visit on Friday night to see how the marigolds we planted…
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Leeks all over the place
We sowed seed and nothing happened, so we sowed some more, not much happened. We did this on…
Brasica netting on the cheap
The calabrese has been hardening off outside in pots at home for a good month now, I have…
Who’s been eating?
Not us, but something has, nothing major but a lot of nibbling of strawberries, rocket, french and runner…
First harvest – garlic scapes
Long curly stems stared to appear on the garlic which I thought must be it starting to flower. …
Midweek evening – no need to water
Wednesday evening me and Tom go to the plot to weed, water, and generally potter about. This week…
Found Mushrooms – life is complete!
Eight years ago I finally met “the mushroom man”, the mystery person in Horam who I had gone…
Indoor progress
Tomatoes and peppers by the window, turning our bedroom into a green house. I’m still not sure what…
Going undercover
On Wednesday evening we had complete plants, by Saturday morning something had spent some time nibbling. I noticed…
Evening watering and gooseberry spotting
An evening trip with Tom to check the state of the wigwams and to do some watering. Since…
Wigwams
Bamboo canes were hard to find, they had a Costa coffee shop but the first garden centre was…
We have new worms
Time to play with the worms again in our wormery which must be nearly 20 years old and…
Re-potting Seedlings
The sprouts and the calabrese that have been in small pots on the window sill for the last…
A Hot Day
Winter rain and winds on Monday, mid year warmth and sun by the bank holiday weekend. I wondered…
Broad beans and seedlings
Broad beans planted in pots indoors over the last weeks have been wanting to be outside for for…
Sowing the seeds
It seems like it is the middle of summer, with temperatures that has got the Daily Mail all…
Uncovered
The plastic sheeting that has covered the plot since around Christmas time was fully removed today showing for…
Indoor Seedlings Progress
We have planted some seeds indoors and others under cover of fleece outside on the plot – see First…
Signs of sprouts and onions
A quick visit this weekend to make sure all was ok on the plot. I spotted not only…
Potatoes and Onions
Easter means potato planting time, and it might as well mean onion set planting time too. On the…
Strawberries and sowing undercover
Rain all weekend but none of it ever came, resulting in quite pleasant weather and time spent both…
First Sowing – indoors
It’s been a “snow day”, or as I’m no longer a child I can say it’s “been snowing…
Last raised bed
I picked up some strawberries the other week and this weekend I was going to plant them in…
Getting Muddy
Got up and it was raining…. waited an hour and it was still raining, so I decided to…
Last bit of digging
While the country is under metres and metres of snow, in the south we are just about coping…
Blackcurrants and burning
The final bit of pruning, this time the blackcurrant bushes, it will be interesting to see how they…
Raspberries.. raspberries
A break in the constant cold, wind and rain, I arrived early and spent a long time pruning…
Pruning Raspberries Part One
I’ve decided that as long as it continues to rain every day of the week it is simply…
Gooseberries in the rain
There is still half the plot to dig over from grass, but with a week of rain and…
Dig dig digging
It said it would be a sunny day and it was, which was ideal for the allotment and…
First day of no rain
Been waiting for weeks to go back and cover the plot in the plastic sheeting we bought before…
Planting Garlic
The day started with misty drizzle and certainly not the type of weather for going to the allotment,…
First bit of digging
We came armed with our new tools, at £29.99 this seemed like a great deal from Argos, and I…
Compost bins
The TODO list grows each day. I’ve taken the tip of “little and often” and so the only…
Plot 110 – Day1
The aim for today was to spend a couple of hours to have a first real look at…
Plot 110
It has been a while…. from sunflowers to square foot gardening… a new house.. an allotment. Over the…
The Path Plods On
I thought it would take just a couple of days to get the path finished once I had…
Spring has sprung!
I know spring does not start until the 20th March, but we can forgive a day or two…. …
We start the path…
With the waste wood off Freecycle we started laying the new wooden path. Taking up the paving I…
Free wood leads to new project
I plan to make a start on this over the weekend. The other week we managed to pick…
Slow slow start to 2011
Lots of promise for 2011 but yet any to be lived out. So far work in the garden…
Square Foot Garden in the Snow
Not a lot going in here, infact the winter had seen the beds being used as a cat…
Square Foot Garden in the Snow
Not a lot going in here, infact the winter had seen the beds being used as a cat…
Wet and Damp – and some Fails
It has been very wet and damp these last weeks and now the sun is much lower during…
Spooky Spiders
September means it is spider month, in the garden and in the house you bump into spiders all…
Late Broad Beans
I never used to like broad beans, but now I think they are great both with skins on…
Late Peas Flowering
These late peas are now flowering and so with hope might get one or two pods out of…
Red Onion Harvest
Not the biggest onions in the world, but they were planted pretty late. All the same though, these…
September 2010
Probably the first and last chance to cut the grass before winter sets in. By this time only…
Tomatoes and Onions
We currently have a daily picking of small cherry tomatoes which has been the best we have ever…