A Typical Day In My Allotment Life by The Sea
Quite a few people have asked me how we cope with three allotments. This video gives a good impression of what a typical day looks like, there’s not as much weeding as some would suspect!
Monthly Archive: June 2017
June Allotment Tour (Jennie’s Plot)
Exactly a month ago I did a tour of Jennie’s plot, so here’s the update. If you’ve been following along you will already know that we got this plot really late in the year and had to do a fast turnaround to get it into production so it not ideal,...
Radio Interviews
I’ve been interviewed on the radio every day this week, if you are keen on gardening or even better have an allotment, you might like to listen to the interviews, each one is only a few minutes long. The links jump straight to the interview. I also cover how the...
June Kitchen Garden Tour ( The Back Garden )
Every week I do a tour of one of our gardens/allotments and today it’s the turn of the kitchen garden. We mainly grow fruit here and pest sensitive veggie’s, which fair reasonably well without any protection. Today’s highlights are the cherries and strawberries, but the beetroot and carrots are all...
Record Making Harvest
It’s hard to title harvest videos, but I’m cheating a bit to say this is a record breaking crop, because every week is now a record breaker as we move into summer. Even so, this one was worth a video as it’s exciting to see the crop move well beyond...
First sneak peak and tour of Debbie’s allotment!
We took on Debbie’s plot a few months ago and it was one of the biggest challenges on the site. Neglected for years, used to store a boat, covered in broken roof tiles and rubble, with carpet on top, through which couch grass, bind weed and mares tail had grown...
Jennie’s Allotment After Six Weeks Work
We inherited Jennie and Jon’s allotment plot 7 weeks ago and we’ve been working it for the last 6 weeks. It’s gone from a thick sea of weeds to a little oasis and today I finished planting it. We put in a lawn, cleared the ground, put down a heavy...