Author: Steve Richards

Continued with the fencing, painted another pallet and put one up Planted another row of red lettuce Did a bit of cropping, it’s the big crop tomorrow though Turned the last of my compost bins!

Today was all about planting up the rows that I’d cleared with the big crop yesterday, although I still took two bags of salad, one of kale, one of spring greens. I put in a long row of peas up against the new climbing frame at the plot entrance: this...

I’m starting to come out of my flare today, which was lucky as Matt was joining me on the allotment for some “honest day’s work” therapy away from the office.  He’s a massive veg fan and had a great time snacking freshly picked leaves, beans, berries and radish, and took...

Started to feel a bit better today, so I very slowly turned my third compost bin, into my second empty bin, adding greens and chicken manure and water as I went, it’s already had one hot period of composting back in April, but hopefully this will give it another burst...

Started my new project today, painting the fence that’s going to mark the entrance to my plot.  The fence is going to be a planter as well.  The Dark Oak colour is pretty opaque, but not quite enough for a single coat to cover all of the red paint, it...

I’m not very well today, some kind of throat infection so I’m body sore and my mind is asleep.  I still managed to potter around the allotment for a couple of hours though, mostly wandering randomly around looking for weeds and cropping. I also noticed my first cucumber I also...

I did a lot of weeding today and it struck me how strange it to to enjoy weeding, then I realised that it has all the hallmarks of being in ‘flow’, you need to concentrate, it take a long time, you make progress.  basically it’s a state of relaxed, focused...

I’ve created a new Instagram account to go with this blog, that has lots of allotment photo’s, it’s at https://www.instagram.com/stevesallotmentnews/. Today has been mostly raining, so the focus has been cropping, I pulled a row of radish and planted some new red lettuce seeds that I’m keen to try, I’m...

It rained today, which meant that for the first time in months I didn’t have to do ANY watering, as the poly tunnels have been replaced by mesh tunnels and the greenhouse is self watering from below.  This meant that I really felt on top of things for the first...