Monthly Archive: January 2019
This video provides an overview of everything that I’m growing – but not harvesting – in January and everything that I’m sowing in Feburay. If you want to see what I’m harvesting in January you can check out the following video: The video shows several databases that I’m using to...
What we’ve harvested and eaten We harvested a ‘grand’ total of £75 worth of veg this week, excluding anything from the store. We had 35 meals with ingredients from the allotment and fed two other families. Here’s a photo of one of the harvests. We picked new potatoes, broccoli, sprouts,...
Note: sorry about the slight camera shake in this video, I’m not very well and the medication I’m on is giving me the shakes, it’s not too bad though and I should be better soon. In this quick weekly update I plant two new apple trees (Braeburn and Red Devil)...
NOTE: I have a big update to these databases that will be available in March If you want to get a copy of the tools that I demonstrate in this video please click on this link and create an account: https://airtable.com/invite/r/WzGlQnBX If you just want to browse the tools first...
What we’ve harvested and eaten We harvested a ‘grand’ total of £65 worth of veg this week, excluding anything from the store. We had 28 meals with ingredients from the allotment. Here’s a photo of one of the harvests. We picked new potatoes, broccoli, sprouts, brocollini, lots of types...
I like to spend an hour or so on the allotment a few days a week in winter, just keeping on top of things before it gets really busy in mid-February. Today I planted out the first and second successions of early peas, my second succession of calabrese and some...
What we’ve harvested and eaten We harvested a ‘grand’ total of £15 worth of veg this week, excluding anything from the store, because we’ve been away on holiday in Edinburgh for most of the time. We had 5 meals with ingredients from the allotment. We picked broccoli, sprouts, brocollini, lots...
Every couple of weeks I do a tour of the allotments to show what we’ve been working on during the last few weeks and the progress – or otherwise – on the plots. If you are new to my allotment videos you might find a bit of context useful. We...
NOTE: apologies for the low volume audio running in the background of this video, I forgot to set the volume to zero during editing. Lots of people have requested some insight into what we eat from the allotment after seeing so many harvests. I’ve managed to cobble together a few...
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/2agNFp5IxGQ/hqdefault.jpg If you’ve been following along you will know that I keep a rough tally of what I harvest and what I spend in £ on the allotment. This December we spent nothing and harvested £239 worth of veg and of course ate loads from the store. This was enough...