More seeds
Mostly sowing more seeds, which will start off indoors until they germinate and then go outside undercover. Last…
Author: Steve
Starting to sow seeds
Suddenly… it was time to sow seeds for 2023 and with the prospect of it getting busy as…
Fire and Trees
Finally, I finish pruning/chopping the shrubs and trees in the garden for their yearly haircut. It seems to…
Weekly Harvest 25th Feb 23
25th February 2023 Just a small picking of sprouts. I wish I had kept a bit more of…
Shredded bushes and raspberry supports
I’ve been recording outside temperatures for three years now (the computer does all the monitor, I just look…
New Raspberry Bed Complete
It took longer than I was expecting, but I did end up doing some pretty deep digging in…
Weekly Harvest 8th Feb 23
8th February 2023 The parsnips have all been dug up, cleaned, cut up and put in the freezer.…
Parsnips and Raspberries
I dug up the remaining parsnips, not the best harvest but better than nothing. They will be chopped…
Weekly Harvest 24th Jan 23
24th January 2023 The swedes came and went, we hardly noticed them this year. The seedlings came to…
Sunrise, frost and raspberries
I got to the plot before sunrise this morning, it was a bit dark and certainly a lot…
Muddy Mud and Woodchip
A lack of plot visits for over the previous months mostly due to constant rain every weekend. It…
Weekly Harvest 8th Jan 23
8th January 2023 2022 was not a year for carrots on the plot, not many germinated and by…
New year – new woodchip for paths
I knew there was woodchip available at the plot but I had not been able to get there…
2022 Summary
A quick summary of 2022… a year that seemed to come and go way too quickly. It was…
Weekly Harvest 28th Dec 22
28th December 2022 This could be the last harvest of 2022, and not much harvested these last couple…
Getting Wet
I sometimes have so much time off around Christmas but the days are too short or the days…
Frost and Poo
A day off work and the first frost of the winter. I don’t think we have had frost…
Weekly Harvest 29th Nov 22
29th November 2022 I grew the beetroot on the plot just to fill up space, we already had…
Suddenly… I get to the Plot
One minute it was autumn, the next it was full blown biblical winter. Dark skies, rain, wind, floods…
Weekly Harvest 23rd Nov 22
23rd November 2022 It’s mostly rain and windy, heavy rain and really strong wind… for nearly a month…
Cutting Down Field Beans
With bad weather and other commitments getting in the way, I had my first visit the plot for…
Weekly Harvest 18th Oct 22
18th October 2022 It’s been a heavy week, everything is measured in kilos. The beetroot is past it’s…
Weekly Harvest 13th Oct 22
13th October 2022 That is it for tomatoes this year, all plants have been pulled out and anything…
Carrots out, Garlic in…
Hard to believe that there was a row of carrots between the parsnips and the beetroot on the…
Onions in the Garden
To give the plot a break from allium leaf minor I decided to grow all our onions in…
Sorting out the Sprouts
It’s been a busy weekend, no time to go to the plot and so I went after work…
Weekly Harvest 4th Oct 22
4th October 2022 One last lot of runner beans, which was a bit of a surprise. There are…
Weekly Harvest 29th Sept 22
29th September 2022 Picking as many tomatoes as we can before the days get too short and cold.…
Weekly Harvest 20th Sept 22
20th September 2022 No surprise that we have been picking (red) tomatoes, but a bit of a surprise…
Pumpkins, Edging, Field Beans
For quite a while we had two pumpkins growing off of the one plant, one grew larger each…
Heavy Rain
Lots of rain and it was heavy. I wondered how the netting I had put over the brassicas…
Weekly Harvest 13th Sept 22
13th September 2022 Tomatoes are still turning red, some of them are splitting but that doesn’t seem to…
Keep Cutting the Grass
I cut the grass and then five minutes (or maybe one week) later it had regrown and was…
Shorter Days
Suddenly it feels like autumn when only the other week we were in the middle of a drought.…
Weekly Harvest 7th Sept 22
7th September 2022 The weather was about to turn and so it seemed a good time to dig…
Tomatoes and Butternut Squash
Most of the garden is filled with tomatoes and butternut squash. I keep spotting small squashes forming and…
Field Beans – Green Manure
I’ve tried overwintered green manure before but have always done it a little too late meaning they had…
Weekly Harvest 26th Aug 2022
26th August 2022 I’ve been happy leaving the potatoes in the ground all the time it’s been really…
Rain!
It was starting to get a bit tedious, constant watering every other day which by the time you…
Weekly Harvest 19th Aug 22
19th August 2022 Borlotti beans are something we have never grown, it was only because we got sent…
Weekly Harvest 10th Aug 22
10th August 2022 Another week of beetroot, with a helping of french and runner beans. We are picking…
Swede plants
We have never bought plants, we have always grown from seed. Buying in small seedlings is just too…
Weekly Harvest 3rd Aug 22
3rd August 2022 We have been digging potatoes as needed each week but now it was time to…
Planting out purple sprouting
I thought I had left it a bit late, but looking back at notes from last year I…
Beetroot and beans in the garden
An advantage of having some of the food growing in the garden is that it is not only…
Sprouts and more watering
During the summer months there is not much to do apart from watering, weeding, and harvesting. Most of…
Weekly Harvest 27th July 22
27th July 2022 We bought in the rest of the onions that have been drying, that’s it now…
The Hottest Day Ever
We didn’t get temperatures of 40c but we were around 30c for most of the day, maxing at…
Weekly Harvest 17th July 22
17th July 2022 Soft fruit and beetroot mostly. Not as much fruit as last year, in fact one…
Weekly Harvest 8th July 22
8th July 2022 . Suddenly it’s July and everything is ready, the days are long and the weather…