Weekly Harvest 15th Mar 22
15th March 2022 It was good to have purple sprouting on my last visit, I was hoping for…
Author: Steve
Compost and onions
It was blue skies and sun, cold but warm when the sun was on you. That was the…
Weekly Harvest 8th March 22
8th March 2022 No harvest this week, mainly because I’ve not had time to go to the plot…
Weekly Harvest 22nd Feb 22
22nd February 2022 Something new, we have never grown cress, we had our first ‘pot’ of cress this…
After the Storm
I wasn’t too worried, although I knew I had not really secured the netting very well last week…
Weekly Harvest 15th Feb 22
15th February 2022 I pulled the last of the swede and probably did a last picking of sprouts…
Poo in the Garden
Most weekends so far this year have been wet and miserable, not much going on in the garden…
Looking after the Purple Sprouting
Sown months and months ago, these take a very long time to mature and give something to harvest.…
Weekly Harvest – 8th Feb 22
8th February 2022 No visit to the plot, busy weekends and there’s not much that can be done…
Weekly Harvest 1st Feb 22
1st February 2022 We picked a lot of the sprouts, some for eating and some for freezing. We…
Weekly Harvest 25th Jan 22
25th January 2022 The normal suspects for winter time and casseroles. We have plenty of parsnips from last…
Weekly Harvest 18th Jan 22
18th January 2022 We did pull the parsnips from the plot this week. This is the left overs…
Parsnips from the plot
Most of the parsnips I direct sowed in the garden and so far each one we have dug…
Weekly Harvest 4th Jan 22
4th January 2022 There is plenty on the plot for the start of a new year. All the…
2021 Summary
A quick summary of 2021… January The year started with zombies, coffee, and cow poo. I was amazed…
Dark and wet days – moving rhubarb
We seem to take days off work over Christmas when it’s dark and wet and not much going…
Weekly Harvest 28th Dec 21
28th December 2021 We were not at home for Christmas, but we did take our own parsnips to…
Weekly Harvest 21st Dec 21
12st December 2021 Finally pulled the last of the beetroot, both at the plot and at home. The…
More onions and less fence
Short days, mostly just drizzle, damp, and cloud, but sometimes the odd bit of sun too. I took…
Weekly Harvest 14th Dec 21
14th December 2021 There has yet to be a bad parsnip day, each time I dig them up…
Blackberry Planted
An unexpected sunny (cold) afternoon with a couple of hours to spare, so I thought I would plant…
Weekly Harvest 7th Dec 21
7th December 2021 I really fancied mashed potato with leeks and kale, so I went to the plot…
Knives and Birthdays
A quick visit to the plot, it was my birthday and I had a new Hori Hori knife…
Weekly Harvest 30th Nov 21
30th November 2021 Very pleased with the parsnips from the garden, happy I have brought the fork from…
Parsnips from the garden
It was cold but it was very sunny, which seemed like a good time to do bits in…
Hammer and Blackberries
We braved the wind and the cold to venture out to Hurstpierpoint to buy a second hoe so…
Weekly Harvest 23rd Nov 21
23rd November 2021 We have started using the parsnips from the garden, forgetting just how difficult it is…
Leaves everywhere
I was faced with a thick sea of leaves when I arrived at the plot late in the…
Weekly Harvest 16th Nov 21
16th November 2021 No pictures again – just picked beetroot to share. 2021 B/F £347.83 IN OUT beetroot…
Weekly Harvest 9th Nov 21
9th November 2021 No pictures, we picked the things and cooked them straight away. Still trying to eat…
Woodchip and poo
Every year it comes to about now and I start pondering about where to get hold of cheap…
Weekly Harvest 2nd Nov 21
2nd November 2021 .Finally pulled up the carrots, a mix of good large ones and a load of…
Quick visit for carrots
Rain and wind, that’s it until March time maybe. I had left carrots in the ground long enough…
Strawberries Moved
I pondered about it, I thought I’d leave it to next year, I did some small bits of…
Weekly Harvest 19th Oct 21
19th October 2021 The week of the squashes, I’m not sure what to do with them now we…
Strawberries and onions
I took advantage of a couple of days this week where I was working in the afternoon and…
Weekly Harvest 13th Oct 21
13th October 2021 I’ve started to pull the carrots, it will soon be too wet and damp for…
Clearing and netting in the garden
Time to clear some of the squash plants and pull up the rest of the carrots from the…
Strawberries and fence
A surprise sunny afternoon, I spent it putting up the next bit of ‘fence’ and continuing to tidy…
Weekly Harvest – 5th Oct 21
5th October 2021 October is always allotment fee month, so that’s £60s that goes straight away. It has…
Weekly Harvest
28th September 2021 Finally we start pulling a lot of beetroot. Some we eat straight away, some we…
An autumn feeling
With a bit of summer still hanging on, in the shape of one late red strawberry in the…
Weekly Harvest 21st Sept 21
21st September 2021 A bit of a lack of photos… We pulled a load of small carrots from…
Weekly Harvest 14th Sept 21
14th September 2021 Summer plants are coming to an end, we are picking the last lot of runner…
Compost and the Shredder 2000
An exciting day is one that we bought the ‘Shredder 2000’…. It was actually a Ryobi contact shredder…
Weekly Harvest 7th Sept 21
7th September 2021 It’s suddenly a rather late hot summer, for at least four days. Courgettes have slowed…
Garden Flowers & Squash
Suddenly, it is summer time, for at least three days – the garden is making the most of…
Turnip Time
I had to go up to the plot the next day to remind myself what I had done…
Weekly Harvest 31st Aug 21
31st August 2021 We finally dug the potatoes in the garden and the harvest was a good as…