Well it’s been just over a month since the last tour and Jennie’s plot is really starting to take shape. This plot is mostly the source of the family’s autumn/winter evening meals: beans from the freezer, potatoes from the hessian sacks, squashes & onions from the wire racks and winter...
The kitchen garden is in full on harvest mode now, the cherries have finished, but as planned they’ve been replaced by the strawberries and now we have the blackberries, raspberries, gooseberries and blueberries too. Not to be outdone, the veg is doing well too, we are half way through our...
This weekend we finally finished Debbie’s allotment plot, although to be more accurate Debbie finished it and I helped out for about half an hour. Anyway it’s finished, excepting a few last minute touches and it looks great. In this video I do the first full tour and then I...
I’ve waited for a break in the wind and rain before doing a tour of the plot this month, so I’m a couple of days late. The allotment continues to transition from spring to summer crops. The autumn crops are all planted or on the patio in trays and the...