Lots of jobs done
Bank holiday weather turned out to be grey cloudy and not that inviting. I wanted to go up…
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Garden Potatoes
With being in the ground for quite a long time, I was not surprised to loose a number…
Weekly Harvest 24th Aug 21
24th August 2021 The rest of the potatoes on the plot did not disappoint. The number of courgette…
Quick visit to fetch courgettes
Not because we really needed some, more because if I didn’t pick them then they would take over…
Potatoes and Fences
I pulled up the tomato plants at the plot, rescuing a small number of green tomatoes along the…
Discovering the Leeks
I was just going to plant out some spinach in a gap I found in the garden but…
Weekly Harvest 10th Aug 21
10th August 2021 A positive start some actual red tomatoes growing well, and being picked, in the garden.…
Another year of green tomatoes
It’s been windy, cold and raining… we escaped out for a walk up to the plot, and it…
Weekly Harvest 3rd August 21
3rd August 2021 It’s a week of millions of courgettes from just two plants, and a week of…
Planting out things
Not much to say about the storms the day before, I had tied things up the night before…
Picking up tomato plants
It had been windy and rainy all week, but one evening at least the rain stopped. I thought…
Weekly Harvest 27th July 21
27th July 2021 The “big four” includes onions, the the summer onions have not been great. I pulled…
Summer Evenings
It’s only been hot summer weather for the last week, but that’s enough for words like “heatwave”, “drought”…
Weekly Harvest 20th July 21
20th July 2021 Another one of the “big four” harvests, this time potatoes. Only one row at the…
The Night of the Potatoes – lots of them
One of the “big four” harvests came in this week, the potatoes or at least the start of…
Squash plants in the garden
The potatoes are still growing and they are taking up way too much space at home. I’ve tied…
It’s Summer Time
Saturday was like winter time, wet and cold. Sunday (morning) was like summer, Sunday afternoon was back to…
Weekly Harvest 13th July 21
13th July 2021 The harvests have really started, better late than never. I pulled the winter onions, one…
Tidying the garden
Left for just a week and it is like a jungle. The potatoes went wild over shadowing everything,…
Wind damaged tomatoes
Strong winds in the summer are a bit worse than strong winds in the winter, the tomato plants…
A bit of calm before all the storms
It’s maybe worth taking photos on the odd warm and still day, it’s doesn’t seem to happen much…
Weekly Harvest 6th July 21
6th July2021 June was mostly cold, wet and windy, so far July is continuing. With such bad weather…
Weekly Harvest 29th June 21
29th June 2021 The middle of summer, and yet most days are wet, windy and cold – harvests…
Cloudy, murky, but warm(ish)
Over wintered broad beans, we have been giving them away, we have so many and the freezer just…
Weekly Harvest 22nd June 21
22nd June 2021 We return to mid winter, wind rain and cold temperatures. We might have had harvested…
Weeding after the rain
Actually, there is more rain to come, but a small break allowed me to spend some time weeding.…
Squash plants do like the rain
After a week of lots of sun and long evenings, we have had non stop heavy rain for…
Weekly Harvest 15th June 21
15th June 2021 It is quite a relief that the radish phase is over for now, we couldn’t…
An evening of planting
It’s about time, a bit late this year. The final set of squash plants planted out at the…
Leeks, Sprouts & Squashes
Not much happened in May, it was too cold, nothing was growing. All it needs is sun and…
Weekly Harvest 9th June 21
9th June 2021 An expensive week as the netting I bought the other month finally had to be…
How does your garden grow?
After a bit of sun after all this rain and cold, it grows very well. The sunny bank…
Weekly Harvest 1st June 21
21st June 2021 We have started pulling radish interplanted with the parsnips, and they are massive! A mixture…
Sun!
A visit in the evening on a rare non-raining, non-windy day, not the warmest but quite calming all…
Weekly Harvest 25th May 21
25th May 2021 It feels like February, but longer hours. It can’t be the warmth that has made…
The Day After Tomorrow
I’m surprised not more was made of it on the news, we had super strong wind blowing day…
Planting out Parsnips
The first year we grew parsnips I started them off undercover in loo rolls and planted them out…
Good Growing Weather
It’s not the warm spring days we enjoyed this time last year, sometimes it feels like the middle…
Weekly Harvest 18th May 21
18th May 2021 A quiet week as we have been busy, there are things to harvest but we…
The night of the netting
The fruit cage was never destined to be covered in bright blue scaffold netting, I was waiting for…
A bit of warmth & the garden grows
Let’s not get too excited, it’s only been three nice sunny days without too much rain. It has…
Weekly Harvest 11th May 21
11th May 2021 A number of milestones reached this week, it is hard to know which one to…
Rain and sun
Which means weeds have shot up during the week, I spent the first hour weeding, pulling up bindweed…
Weekly Harvest 4th May 21
4th May 2021 The purple sprouting is past it’s best and so I picked what I could and…
The Longest (busiest) Day
The list of things to do was long and it included a fruit cage and a greenhouse (the…
Weekly Harvest 27th April 21
27th April 2021 A quick harvest, picked some rhubarb, made a cake… 2021 B/F –£13.51 IN OUT rhubarb…
Evening Visits
Have started, a quick 30 minutes or so after work which might have turned into an hour, or…
Weekly Harvest 20th April 21
20th April 2021 More of the same. Rhubarb is plentiful and I pick as much as I think…
More potatoes and onions
Overwintered onion seed plants are doing quite well on the plot although are noticeably behind the sets, which…
More sowing at home
While it was snowing last week, this week it is sunny and each day the back garden gets…