March is my busiest sowing month, so it’s quite a relief to get to April. I have dozens of seed trays full of healthy plants now and many of the February and early March sowings are in the ground. The main challenge has been the onions, I’ve had a couple...
Allotment Finances We’ve harvested a total of £1323 of fruit veg this year We’ve spent a total of £446 this year, mostly one time investments What we’ve harvested and eaten We harvested a total of £173 worth of veg this week, excluding everything from the store. This is actually lower...
A quick update on what we’ve been planting in the last week or so. After so much time sowing seeds, it’s lovely to start planting them in the open ground again! If you are new to my allotment videos you might find a bit of context useful. We live in...
In this video I go through some of the basic strategies that we follow to harvest a huge amount of organic fruit and veg off our 250 sq meters of growing area. If you are new to my allotment videos you might find a bit of context useful. We live...
A quick update on my plans for making sure that we don’t run out of brassicas during the spring ‘hungry gap’. I do a quick review of the current situation, show you my full range of brassica seedlings and plant a nice range of Kales. I also have a few...
Allotment Finances We’ve harvested a total of £1150 of fruit veg this year We’ve spent a total of £426 this year, mostly one time investments What we’ve harvested and eaten We harvested a total of £190 worth of veg this week, excluding everything from the store. We had 39 meals...
It’s been three years since I planted my first few seeds on my allotment and a year since I put the poly on the new polytunnel. A lot has changed, let’s take a look around. If you are new to my allotment videos you might find a bit of context...
In this video I go through the allotment year from the perspective of the polytunnel. I explain some of the key transitions and how to take best advantage of the space you have. Key to my approach is the use of layers of vertical space and using lots of containers...
This video takes a quick look at what we still have in our allotment store. The store is definitely depleting, but more importantly as the weather warms, the quality of the stored product degrages rapidly, so it’s a race against time to get fresh produce to take it’s place! In...
Allotment Finances We’ve harvested a total of £960 of fruit veg this year We’ve spent a total of £416 this year, mostly one time investments What we’ve harvested and eaten We harvested a total of £155 worth of veg this week, excluding everything from the store. We had 39 meals...