I’ve mostly been weeding today although I did crop a couple of bags of mixed veg for my smoothies and Pete gave me a cucumber. I also started as I mean to go on and spent a few minutes strimming the green drive. I decided to take the opportunity to...
Spent most of today and all of yesterday’s plot time working on the site, mostly strimming and mowing the green paths, the grass was long so I didn’t want to leave it on the ground, which meant a lot of compost needed to be made to use up all of...
I pulled a batch of onions today that freed me to do some serious planting, they’re not quite fully developed but they look good enough and another month in the ground might deliver another 50p of value, but a month of new crops will probably deliver £10 of crops and...
I’m really frustrated at the moment because I have so much to plant and nowhere to put anything else. I look across to the side of my plot though where I’m growing peas and beans and I see so little productivity there compared to my other beds, once they’ve cropped...
Finished the fence with Jon’s help, now we just have to put in the planting pockets Picked a big bag of peas and broad beans, for tonight’s pizza topping
Not much going on at the allotment today, painted another half pallet and put up two pallets, so the fence is almost done. Jon is finishing off the last of the pallets this afternoon. Cropped and pulled up a row of chard, I still have three mature rows and more...
Finished painting another pallet today, started a second one and Jon continued painting in the afternoon, so the fence should progress quite a bit tomorrow. Cleared a row of straggly oriental salad, which grew fantastically earlier in the year, but isn’t do so well now that the weather is warmer,...
Only on the allotment for half an hour today, made the most of it and turned my last compost bin. Now they’ve all been turned they have all warmed up nicely, although they are all declining well below their 50 degree peak. Picked a huge selection of veg for Thom’s...
Continued with the fencing, painted another pallet and put one up Planted another row of red lettuce Did a bit of cropping, it’s the big crop tomorrow though Turned the last of my compost bins!
Today was all about planting up the rows that I’d cleared with the big crop yesterday, although I still took two bags of salad, one of kale, one of spring greens. I put in a long row of peas up against the new climbing frame at the plot entrance: this...