Garlic Harvest and Netting
Just a week ago the garlic was looking very healthy and continuing to grow and then the next…
Author: Steve
Garden veg growing
It is now June and the garden is growing well. Our chillies (which we were not going to…
Windy on the plot – planting out sweetcorn
Sunny but really windy, I hoped it the trees would shelter me from most of the wind but…
More planting out in the garden
Rain is forecast later this week and so today seemed a good time to plant out the french…
Planting out sweetcorn and new netting
There would be no point planting out the young sweetcorn plants if I did not first do something…
More watering and then rain…
I thought I would not be up at the plot for a couple of days and so I’ll…
Evening watering
It hasn’t rained much this month which is a pity as for things like potatoes it is just…
Planting out leeks
I’ve never been able to wait until my leek plants are the thickness of a pencil before I…
Monthly Harvest April 25
April 2025 Another record breaking warm month, the end of April was like summer time as the temperate…
Compost bin switch over
It has been well overdue, the yearly “trimming of the trees and bushes” in the garden. They started…
Harvesting radish place holders
Along with seeds that will take a long time to germinate I also sowed old radish seed is…
Monthly Harvest March 25
March 2025 March was both hot and cold. It matched 2023 as the coldest recorded at 1.1c and…
Quick tidy before inspection
It happens each year, the council inspect the plots and those not 75% cultivated for the last 12…
Weeding onions, banking potatoes
It has been a mixture of sun and rain for the last week and I expected to find…
Tidying garden a bit
Warm sunny weather, nearly warm enough to have breakfast in the garden, certainly warm enough to be outside…
Seedlings starting to show
With not much rain over the last weeks I went up to the plot to water the rows…
Potatoes all planted on the hottest day
New records were made today in the garden when it registered 19.1c which is the hottest day of…
Broadbeans and Potatoes
Clocks changed and the first day has been sunny, an early morning not quite so as it did…
The Garden: Onions, seedlings, new growth
After a couple of nice spring-like warm days the garden is starting to get the sun again out…
Parsnips Sown – Strawberry Bed Done
Last year I started to redo the strawberry bed which was in a raised bed covered by a…
Monthly Harvest Feb 25
February 2025 I have not been keeping up with harvest stats too well this year, here is February…
Starting to clear the fence
I was talking to our new neighbours the other day and they were busy clearing the weeds and…
Onion Sets – Digging Beds
I have a mixture of onion sets, overwintered onions from seed, also onions from seed sown the other…
Cutting grass, meeting new people
With the recent warm weather it was nice to go to the plot late afternoon and cut the…
First planting of the year
Late last year I sowed a tray of over-wintering onion seed and I mostly left them outside undercover…
More prep on the plot
Frosty in the morning, clear sky and sun during the morning, I decided to fill another six bags…
Compost for the garden
Each year I am amazed buy how low the level gets in the raised beds. It starts at…
Digging the remaining parsnips
Weather has not been good for weeks but I finally ventured up to the plot today to dig…
Monthly Harvest Jan 25
January 2025 A new year and not a lot going on at the plot, not much to harvest…
Finally a sunny day
It’s either been raining, or windy, or raining and windy… today was the first day for a while…
New Year Plot Visit
A cold freezing day but the sun had melted most of the ice by mid morning, although the…
Monthly harvest Nov 24
November 2024 Not much going on at the moment, strong wind and rain for most if the month.…
Winter poo and more leaves
The other day I found a new supply of rotted down horse manure, we were out for a…
A Sea of Leaves
You can on longer deny that autumn is here and winter is coming quickly when you see your…
Tidying up the garden – taking down beans
We stopped picking runner beans last month as we just could not keep up with them. We eat…
Monthly Harvest – Oct 24
October 2024 Big outgoings as it was time to pay for another year of the plot, now £70…
Pumpkins out, garlic in
A couple of warm sunny autumn days allowed me to go to the plot during the day and…
Picking pumpkins
Time to start tidying up and prepping things. I pulled the last lot of carrots which got us…
Monthly Harvest – Sept 24
September 2024 Within the garden I’m currently only able to record the temperature which shows no records were…
Autumn suddenly arrives
You visit the plot and it feels just like summer, if not a bit cooler, you cling onto…
Monthly Harvest – August 24
August 2024 It certainly felt like August and it seemed autumn had come early during the second half…
Last of the garden carrots
We have had the best year for carrots in the garden, something we normally struggle with. We have…
Picking dried beans
The borlotti plants on the plot have all died back so it was time to pick off the…
Tomatoes and Beans
I am pretty pleased with the tomatoes, with new ones turning red each day and ready for picking.…
Covering Swedes a Bit More
I covered the swedes last week in order to keep the birds off but it turns out it…
Pumpkins and tomatoes
With outdoor tomatoes I spent the beginning of summer wondering if tomatoes will actually start to appear and…
Garden sweetcorn
We have finally picked our first lot of sweetcorn cobs which has worked out really well in the…
Autumn already?
It certainly feels like it, shorter evenings and colder mornings. Have we eaten breakfast in the garden for…
Just need to cut the grass
The garden, I think, is looking really good and I pretty pleased with that we have done, I…
The day of the potatoes
A month later than I would had wanted, due to the bad weather, I finally dug up the…