Weekly Harvest 4th May 21
4th May 2021 The purple sprouting is past it’s best and so I picked what I could and…
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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…
Weekly Harvest 13th April 21
13th April 2021 I picked a whole load and yet it seemed to make no difference to what…
So much rhubarb
We have been busy at home these last couple of weeks and I knew while we were absent…
2020 The Stats
Summary I might as well start with the obvious – Zombies. This whole Covid stuff meant we prepared…
Potatoes are go…
Busy weekends coming up, and cold weather plus snow (I’ll believe it when I see it) forecast over…
Weekly Harvest 30th March 21
30th March 2021 The weekly ‘leek report’… 2021 B/F –£28.89 IN OUT leek- 400g £0.88 WEEK TOTAL £0.88…
Onions and rhubarb
I walked up to the plot early in the morning with a small bag of onion sets to…
Just sowing…
I have a long list of things to start sowing undercover which I am working through bit-by-bit. I…
Weekly Harvest 16th March 2021
16th March 2021 More leeks…. 2021 B/F –£29.44 IN OUT leek- 250g £0.55 WEEK TOTAL £0.55 RUNNING 2021…
Prepping the beds
Give it a couple of weeks or so and I’ll be planting potatoes and onions, I thought this…
Weekly Harvest 9th March 21
9th March 2021 Just popping up to pull some leeks…. it’s all mostly leeks at the moment. 2021…
New Poo… and garden bed finished
I’ve been looking at the half finished bed in the garden and thinking I’m going to have to…
Repotting & Sun on the Plot
Now that both the currants and the gooseberries are in the same area on the plot (and hopefully…
Work continues at home
Back in September I worked on the bed at home and edging with ‘railway sleepers’, looking back at…
Weekly Harvest 23rd Feb 21
23rd February 2021 A visit to the plot showed the pigeons had been hungry and eaten all the…
Freezing weather and beans
The thermometer was gladly telling me that the high for the week had been 0c while the low…
Weekly Harvest 9th Feb 21
9th February 2021 Man can’t live on just swede and turnip… although I’m sure he could if he…
Pottering in the (no) snow
There was no real plan this morning apart from taking pictures of the allotment in the snow that…
Cutting down the Hop
An annual job to cut down the hop bush. At this time of the year the garden is…
Weekly Harvest 2nd Feb 21
2nd February 2021 We fancied leek and potato soup and so we went up and pulled a couple…
Just a walk to get bits for tea…
There is not much to do at the plot, nor in the garden. Both are pretty wet and…
Weekly Harvest 26th Jan 21
26th January 2021 Swedes and turnips, and a handful of sprouts that I found. I’m leaving the leaks…
No more cherry tree
I’m not sure how I feel about people who plant trees on allotment plots, they are such a…
Weekly Harvest 19th Jan 21
19th January 2021 Less of a harvest and more of a spending session online. I had no multi-purpose…
2020 Summary
A quick summary of 2020… January I planted out some more broadbeans after mice/rats eat some of the…
Weekly Harvest 12th Jan 21
12th January 2021 Another bite size swede which once again was just the right size for a meal…
Deep freeze in the garden
We don’t have frost that often, but when we do it stays in the garden for days. The…
Weekly Harvest 5th Jan 2021
5th January 2021 It was time to dig up the parsnips in the garden. These were all last…
Zombies, coffee and cow poo
Let’s start with the coffee, and the zombies… It’s been an interesting week with a mixture of it…
Frosty Parsnips and Gooseberries
It seems almost as exciting as snow these days, we don’t get much frost on the south coast…
Weekly Harvest 29th Dec 2020
29th December 2020 Nothing says Christmas like a turnip….. possibly. It seems like a poor Christmas harvest but…
Weekly Harvest 22nd Dec 20
22nd December 2020 The calm before Christmas, and the prospect of empty shelves in shops while everyone panics,…
Digging the garden
This is the year of “no no-dig” I feel. Part of growing for me is the digging, I…
Pruning Things
Not only did I have the afternoon off work, but it was (cold) sunny too. Knowing that it…
Weekly Harvest 15th Dec 20
15th December 2020 The last of the beetroot was pulled from the garden. It was a cold a…
Digging Weed Roots
Finished off digging the space next to the gooseberries. The gooseberry bushes will move over the next month…
Weekly Harvest 8th Dec 2020
8th December 2020 Parsnips on the plot, I started digging them up and before I knew it I…
A quarter of the parsnips
Because I planted four rows on the plot and only about a quarter of them survived which was…
Weekly Harvest 1st December 2020
1st December 2020 A quiet week, for no real reason apart from… well no real reason at all.…
More poo in the garden
I will need more bags of it too I fear. I emptied another three bags of rotted down…
Beans and Cabbages
The other week I sowed broad beans direct in the ground at the plot while also sowing some…
Weekly Harvest 24th Nov 20
24th November 2020 We finally picked a fennel bulb and roast it. The strong aniseed smell you get…
Mini red cabbage and fennel
The only reason for visiting the plot this morning was to take up some chopped up bush clippings…
Weekly Harvest 17th Nov 20
17th November 2020 Last week I was surprised by raspberries and I picked them all, this week they…