I love writing these monthly reviews, although January is perhaps the most boring of them, because everything slows down to a crawl. This year though it’s a much more exciting month because grow lights are allowing me to squeeze in additional harvests in lots of my beds and especially the...
It’s been another extremely slow gardening week, but next week picks up a bit and then we are full steam ahead in the new year. We’ve had a few issues though. The last two months have been very damp and as a result we have lost about 1/3 of lettuces...
The slow growing season continues. I’ve had very few reasons to go to the allotment, or even into the garden. The good weather has seen me out on the hills instead and I’ve had two excellent walks with friends. But the allotment is on the way home from the hills,...
As predicted it’s been a very quite week on the allotment, I’ve visited only a few times. Apart from harvesting I spent a few minutes weeding, aired some of the beds, watered the under-cover brassicas and spinach and that’s about it. The only sowing I did was micro-greens and to...
We still have a huge amount left to harvest but as we welcome winter, we notice a very significant slowdown in growth. As soon as that happens it’s like a shock to the system and I realise that what’s in the ground now has to last us until February, with...
I love writing these monthly reviews and plans for the following month, so much seems to happen in such a short time and our diet changes as each month clicks by. The fruit changes the most. September saw us overwhelmed with tomatoes/peppers/cucumbers and plums and October saw the winter squash...