It’s been another cold and wet week, with only a few hours on the allotment to harvest. It’s not bothered me though because I’ve been busy decorating the bedrooms and that’s allowed me to make a dedicated – cool and dark – space for all of my seed packets. It’s...
Another week of almost no sun and a lot of rain, the surrounding plots are almost completely flooded now and I have stepping stones on the path to allow me to get to mine. Its been a grim gardening month, that’s for sure. The main casualty continues to be the...
last year we enjoyed a very mild winter and as a result we lost quite a few lettuces to stem rot. This year we’ve had an extremely cold winter and as a result we’ve lost quite a few lettuces again, to repeated frost/thaw cycles. Lettuce is a very important crop...
We’ve had a very frost week and that’s put quite a check on growth, but we’ve still seen an uptick in our harvest volumes compared to last week and last year. I know from experience that even though I’m always concerned that I’m harvesting too much at this time of...
We’ve had a very frost week and that’s put quite a check on growth, but we’ve still seen an uptick in our harvest volumes compared to last week and last year. We normally have only a handful of frosty days a month in winter, but we’ve been enjoying string of...