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...
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...
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...
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...
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...