Planting Garlic
We had so much garlic this year, not the best looking but quantity overruled quality it seems and…
Pottering in the (early) autumn sun
No real plan this morning, but after a couple of days of rain I thought a visit in…
Garden taking shape
I’ve done as much as I can with edging the plot in the garden, half is done but…
Climbing trees, again
Our Wednesday evening visits to the plot with Tom continue, helped a lot by me finishing work a…
Planting peas and beans
The first lot of planting at the plot for a while, peas and broad beans both a variety…
Working in the Garden
After a summer of pondering and planning, I finally ordered the wood and it turned up, it was…
Prepping Beds
There is not a lot going on at the plot, it’s all happening in the garden at home…
Using our own compost
Part of the idea of tidying up the compost area was to actually empty out the compost so…
Starting to Tidy
It has been on the list for months, tidying up the area around the compost bins. We still…
Garden plans and strawberry beds
When we dug over the lawn in the garden we had no real plan apart from having a…
Evening visits in the heat
All of last week was so super hot we ended up doing quite a lot of visits to…
Super hot and it’s only 10am
I purposely went up to the plot at 6am in order to beat the hot weather, my first…
Late Night Poo
It is noticeable that evenings are getting darker earlier, but the warm weather means it’s not a problem.…
Watering and tidying
Mostly this week we have been watering, either the garden with the water butt, or visits to the…
Podcast
It was a good to catch up with Richard of The Veg Grower Podcast the other evening, on…
Blackberries, swedes, courgettes – and paths
A full day of rain of Saturday meant next day, hot and sunny, plants have liked it a…
One last lot of carrots
The carrots in the garden started off well, but they have been crowded and got quite wet and…
Harvests from the garden
The potatoes were first to be put into the garden and while we did dig a couple up…
Leeks and netting
Breakfast outside in the sun, by the evening it seemed cold, dark, and back to winter once again.…
Evening watering and currants
For a while it feels like it is the middle of winter and then the next week it…
Wintery evening of onions
Something Tom and myself look forward to is the summer evening “pulling of the onions”, but he had…
Problem with wind…
Monday last week it started and it has not stopped, wind is a bit of a problem. The…
Day of the currants and the poo
Super windy day but at least it was sunny unlike yesterday which was like a cold winter day.…
Night of the Potatoes
Just days before lockdown we quickly planted some seed potatoes… just weeks before lockdown is mostly lifted, we…
Tidying
A lot of focus has been made on the garden, and for good reason. Everything is busy growing…
Rain – Sun – Fruit
A lot of rain, a lot of sun, meaning a lot of growing has been happening, in particular…
Cutting down trees
Maybe not the whole tree but a certain amount of branches had to go from the trees that…
Bye celeriac, hello tomatoes
They didn’t last long, less than a week after months of looking after at home. All a bit…
An early morning
I feel like I am not on top of the allotment, visits have not been much this year…
Planting sprouts
It was suggested it would be raining later on in the day and so even though it was…
Cutting back
A walk up to the allotment in the afternoon showed that following the recent cold and windy weather…
Eating radish
The first lot of radish were sown at the beginning of March, then instead of being taken up…
Back to the Plot – for now
Let us not get over excited, all the talk by the media of relaxing lock down (have they…
French beans and parsnips
In the garden, a warm sunny morning has followed a number of rainy (but not cold) days has…
Obsessed with Parsnips!
All this staying at home, I’m starting to be obsessive about parsnips! Last year was a first try…
Growing at home
I have various in seed trays indoors: chillies – late to sow this year, probably ready to put…
Venturing Out into the Wild
Three weeks, or is it four weeks, it might even be five weeks – it seems like a…
Seedlings and peas
It had rained most of yesterday and bits during the night, the morning was not looking too promising…
Parsnips, carrots,a lot of seeds – and compost
It shows just how much we have done on the allotment with the soil, lots of organic matter…
Bringing things closer to home
We had planned to do something with the lawn this year, maybe a bit of paving to put…
Radish in a Pot
It is sunny and inviting outside, the clocks have changed, it seems an ideal morning to look at…
A Dash for the Leeks
I think of it as you “can” go to the allotment, but I think “should” you? I also…
Potatoes and Onions
We walked up to the allotment in the afternoon armed with bags of seed potatoes and onion sets.…
Getting things ready
With all the bad weather since Christmas it is hard to believe it is time to start doing…
Larger Strawberries…
I had a bit of a list to work through, it was the first non-cold, non-raining morning for…
2019 – The Stats
Everyone likes spreadsheets and numbers, here is 2019 in numbers… These figures are from the year’s worth of…
Sprouts, Swedes and Woodchip
Due to commitments and weather I have not been to the plot for a number of weeks. A…
The hop plant
Just over five years ago I was given a “grow your own beer” gift as a present, I…
Parsnips, Poo, and Frost
January can be pretty brutal when it wants to be, while at the same time it can be…
2019 Summary
A quick month-by-month summary of 2019…. January planted more garlic, possibly a bit late as quite a lot…