Strawberry netting and potatoes SteveApril 21, 2024 A had a chance afternoon not at work during the week and so took the opportunity to spend…
Prepping for Courgettes SteveApril 14, 2024 Cloudy early morning which soon turned to warm sun. I cycled up to the plot as the main…
Planting out onions SteveApril 8, 2024April 7, 2024 It may had been super windy up at the plot but in the garden we were sheltered from…
Parsnips in the wind SteveApril 7, 2024 Blue sky and sun but very windy. Coming from the south and so hitting the plot head on.…
Potatoes planted SteveMarch 30, 2024 So far with Easter weather, promised to be windy and unsettled, has turned out to be warm with…
First sowing in the garden for 2024 SteveMarch 29, 2024 Easter weekend, early this year at the end of March. So far this year it has been mostly…
Onions planted – beds prepped SteveMarch 23, 2024 Forecast for rain but when I woke up it was blue sky and sunny. I wasn’t planning anything…
Shop compost for the garden beds SteveMarch 17, 2024March 16, 2024 We make compost at home but there is not enough waste to make a lot of it, so…
Enough home made compost to go around SteveMarch 16, 2024 After a bit of a rainy week and next week looking like much the same, Saturday started off…
More beans and no fruit cage SteveMarch 3, 2024 It must be the first day of the year where it has been cold but sunny, clear blue…
Cold and Wet SteveFebruary 25, 2024 There was a brief bit of early morning sun and blue sky which made me think I could…
Chilli seedlings SteveFebruary 19, 2024 Not much has happened on the plot for weeks because it’s been constantly raining all month. However, at…
Frozen broad beans SteveJanuary 28, 2024 For the last couple of years we have not had any frost or sub-zero temperatures. We got a…
New year – new neighbour SteveJanuary 6, 2024January 6, 2024 2024 has (still) not given us flying cars but it has given us lots of rain and high…
A sunny day – prepping a bed SteveDecember 10, 2023 I had a midweek day off work and it turned out to be quite sunny and warm, I…
Tidying up, taking down the PoppaDomes SteveDecember 3, 2023December 2, 2023 They served us well this year, I never knew they even existed until we got them. I was…
Poo on the plot SteveDecember 2, 2023 According to the weather, today will be the last day of the year when it won’t be wet,…
Clearing up leaves SteveNovember 26, 2023 The last time I was at the plot, there were leaves on the trees and everything was looking…
Winter time, winter veg SteveNovember 5, 2023November 5, 2023 I have not been to the plot for nearly a month, a mixture of being busy and bad…
Beetroot and Butternut remaining SteveOctober 9, 2023October 8, 2023 Tidying the garden, starting with cutting the grass which after all the dry and warm weather had become…
Digging up the paths SteveOctober 8, 2023 Not me, the local wildlife…. We get this every so often where upon arriving I find a lot…
Turnip harvest means it’s Autumn SteveOctober 1, 2023 I’m glad I decided to grow turnips this year as I really fancied a meal with turnips, maybe…
Tidying the garden for the winter SteveSeptember 29, 2023September 26, 2023 This time last week it was super hot and sunny, a bit of an extension to a summer…
Quick tidy up SteveSeptember 28, 2023September 24, 2023 A short afternoon visit, after all the wind and rain during the week some fresh air was needed…
The garden in the shade SteveSeptember 17, 2023 Not fully in the shade but give it a couple of weeks and that will be it until…
Tomatoes out – Onions in SteveSeptember 17, 2023September 17, 2023 I received an email the other week from the allotment committee telling us that we must all destroy…
Cutting grass and thinking it’s too hot SteveSeptember 11, 2023 Three days where the temperature has reached 25c which makes it a heatwave. That is where we have…
Super sunny morning at the plot SteveSeptember 3, 2023 It was still all a bit misty when I arrived early in the morning and a bit cold.…
Pots in the Garden SteveSeptember 3, 2023 We were given a present of a voucher for the garden centre and so decided to redo the…
Climbing trees, making netting SteveAugust 28, 2023 It seems like ages since I have gone to the plot first thing in the morning and spent…
Tomatoes in the garden SteveAugust 26, 2023August 24, 2023 While those on the plot have suffered from the wind and the rain throughout the summer (I expect…
Watching things grow at the plot SteveAugust 25, 2023August 24, 2023 The middle of summer and while there is plenty to be done on the plot, at the same…
More sun, more weeding SteveAugust 7, 2023August 6, 2023 I also built a bit more of the plot edging using the old decking from the garden, a…
In the garden, beans still standing SteveAugust 6, 2023August 5, 2023 A bit of a surprise with all the wind we have had this week. The beans have taken…
A break in the rain for some weeding SteveAugust 5, 2023 I quickly went up to the allotment in the evening when it was neither windy, rainy, or cold.…
The windy day of potatoes – and sprouts SteveJuly 29, 2023 A rare sunny and dry day, although windy, I thought we’d better dig up the potatoes. This was…
An evening of potatoes and swedes SteveJuly 21, 2023July 19, 2023 At long last I got to plant out the swedes, so far this year has been mostly catching…
Garden Planting SteveJuly 20, 2023July 19, 2023 After finishing ‘phase 3’ I continued to plant up the edge. We already had plants from the weekend…
Garden Paving – Phase3 completion SteveJuly 16, 2023 I find that if you break up projects in ‘phases’ then it hides the fact that it has…
Lots of weeding, planting out cucumbers SteveJuly 14, 2023 An afternoon of weeding where I filled two buckets full of bindweed, I also tied up the tomatoes…
Raining in the garden SteveJuly 9, 2023July 8, 2023 It’s been super hot these last days, temperatures have not gone below 20c for a couple of days.…
The night of the peas and courgettes SteveJuly 8, 2023 I had not been to the plot for over a week, the weather had been a mix of…
Onions out, Butternut Squash in SteveJuly 5, 2023 Wind and rain and wind, and more wind…. In the end I thought I need to get the…
Garlic and tomatoes SteveJune 26, 2023 Suddenly it was mid year, longest day, time for the garlic to be pulled up. Until a week…
Letting the Beans Out SteveJune 18, 2023 One bed is protected by the Popadomes, the other is covered in green netting. The steps needed to…
Wires for the Raspberries SteveJune 17, 2023 On my todo list I have “wire up raspberries” which is a reminder to put in place some…
Potatoes in the garden SteveJune 12, 2023June 11, 2023 I don’t know if we will get a good harvest as we put filled the potato buckets with…
Hose pipes and leeks SteveJune 11, 2023 Watering the plot has always been quite a major job, multiple trips to the water trough up and…
Hot(ish) Days SteveJune 5, 2023June 5, 2023 Still not really hitting 20c according to the temperature probe in the garden, but in the sun it…
Everything is growing SteveMay 29, 2023 Firstly, bindweed. I managed with ease to fill a small trug with it. Mostly it comes out easy…