Monthly Archive: June 2016

Allotment Diary–Tuesday 7th June

I’ve continued to work on clearing the weeds from the area under the trees and made good planting progress there as well.  I built the bean frame yesterday and planted runner beans today, I’ve put in a variety that’s not meant to go stringy, which means that even though they...

Allotment Diary – Monday 6th June

I was out hiking today so I didn’t get to the allotment until gone 2pm.  The hike/drive wasn’t wasted though as I gave some thought to how I was going to use the, area under the trees, I’d originally planned to grass it, but now I see how much sun...

Allotment Diary–Sunday 5th June

Wow, it’s hot down on the allotment today, so this will be brief as I was out of there as quickly as possible. The main job for the day was taking the polythene off my second tunnel and replacing it with mesh.  I only have one poly-tunnel now and I’m...

Allotment Diary–Saturday 4th June

We’ve been away from the allotment for four days, so it’s remarkable to see how much everything has grown.  The dwarf beans being the best example, they were just breaking through a week ago, so much so that we could hardly see them to weed around and now look at...

Allotment Diary – Wednesday 1st June

Debbie and I are in Edinburgh today, so the kids are looking after the allotment.  We however have been scouting for ideas at the Royal Botanic Gardens, fruit and veg demonstration plots.  This is what we’ve seen! We loved these fruit cages and the way that everything had been cordon...