We’ve just past the ‘£11,000 harvested and processed’ milestone for the allotments this week and even though we intentionally switched a lot of production to lower value staple products, we’ve still exceeded our £40/m2 tally for last year. Next year I’m doing a lot more creative interplanting, so I think...
I’ve just checked my diary for the week and I’ve spent 7.5 hours on the allotments and garden, 4.5 hours of which was spent harvesting, so it’s been a light week. That’s partly because my youngest daughter got the keys to her new house on Monday, so Debbie and I...
Last week’s stay at home order ended early because we managed to get a COVID test mailed to us and we were cleared the day after, it was a very quick and efficient process. As a result we had a relaxing few days tidying up the garden and enjoyed a...
On Tuesday we received a stay at home warning from the NHS app, which indicated that we had been exposed to someone with COVID and needed to isolate for 7 days. Neither of us has any symptoms, but the law’s the law and we can’t have everyone second guessing it....
It’s been an extremely quiet week, the weather has been mixed with a lot of showers and I’ve been enjoying the gym and swimming pool for most of my exercise, although I’ve done plenty of beach walking too. I’ve also done plenty of circuits of the allotment site. I really...
My Mum and her partner came over to the west coast this week for a visit, they stayed in a hotel to comply with social distancing regulations. Fortunately they stayed at the hotel where I swim, so we got to swim together and catch-up in the poolside lounge. We also...
I’ve continued to push on with clearing and planting beds at the allotment and at home this week, but I’ve also managed plenty of beach walks and a good hike in the hills. The big non-allotment news though is that my swimming pool is now open again, so I’m back...
This week was forecast to be very wet but as usually happens here, very little rain actually arrived. That was annoying as I’d moved a lot of water around to capture that rain and now I have to move it back from long term storage. I can’t really complain though...
I’m writing this diary in Caffe Nero on Sunday morning, warming up after a frosty visit to the allotments, yes you heard that right, frost in September, when our normal first frost date is 10th November! We definitely seem to be having later and earlier frosts now, even as the...
I’ve been away hiking this week. I walked the hills, the beach and the cliffs and it was wonderful. It meant of course that there was very little time on the allotments. I managed to plant a few dozen turnips in containers at home and on my first day back...