Monthly Archive: June 2019
If you received this via email click here to get all of the images and videos! How much time have I spent on the allotments? A lot of people seem to have the impression that I spend every waking hour on the allotments, compulsively pulling every weed and tending each...
If you received this via email click here to get all of the images and videos! How much time have I spent on the allotments? A lot of people seem to have the impression that I spend every waking hour on the allotments, compulsively pulling every weed and tending each...
In this video I talk about how we planted our early broad beans, the wonderful harvest we’ve just completed and how we will continue to harvest broad beans into autumn and then bean tops through winter and into early spring. If you are new to my allotment videos you might...
If you received this via email click here to get all of the images and videos! Allotment Finances We’ve harvested a total of £3,843, smashing all previous records, since records began! Harvesting this much gives me immense freedom to spend money to save time and increase food quality and variety,...
If you received this via email click here to get all of the images and videos! Allotment Finances We’ve harvested a total of £3,460, smashing all previous records for spring! Harvesting this much gives me immense freedom to spend money to save time and increase food quality and variety, without...
I don’t generally like to make ‘hot to’ videos, because everyone’s needs and circumstances are so different. However sometimes I make a “how I do” video, and this is one of those. I explain my philosophy about the use of containers in the polytunnel and greenhouse and show examples to...
This video is the finance update for spring. I go through the value of our harvests, how much we’ve spent, how much we’ve saved off our food bill. I also talk about why this year has been so much better than last year and some plans for the future. If...
If you received this via email click here to get all of the images and videos! Allotment Finances We’ve harvested a total of £3,210, smashing all previous records for spring! Harvesting this much gives me immense freedom to spend money to save time and increase food quality and variety, without...
May has been a much more relaxed month than April, sowing just a few seeds and a leisurely planting schedule. Almost all of the summer planting is complete now, with about half of the autumn/winter brassica’s in too. The focus now switches to preparing for an abundant winter and spring,...