One of my new years resolutions is to get my a bit more balance in my activities. Specifically I want to spend more time writing, to complement my reading and video making. My writing topic of choice for this year is a new blog focused on my allotment and it...
I put up a cheap wind sock this morning as I’m obsessed by the wind strength and direction. While I was up the ladder I also trimmed the willows. Sadly I had to cut out a third of my sprouts today, party because they were too cramped, partly because of...
I’ve been putting off turning the compost bins again, as a result they’ve sat too long at a high temperature and collapsed a bit. Fortunately I’ve been accumulating compost in the other two bins and as I turned the two mature bins I consolidated in the quarter filled bins to...
This week has been a big push to get all of my phase 2 changes finished before mid September, as I will be travelling for the rest of the month. That has meant finishing and planting all of the cold frames and hot beds – done Cutting down most of...
I pulled up the butternut squash today and harvested the last three fruits, I’d planted them through weed stop membrane which had worked well, but under that were a lot of slugs and snails, so next time I put it down I need to make sure it’s well prepared –...
I was on baby sitting duty this morning and then rain kept me home for a while, but I eventually set off for the allotment at around 11am. I went in the car and popped into Liddell on my way and picked up 5 large grow bags for £1.29 each,...
Wow, what a great day down on the allotment! After cycling to Blackpool and back I was wind buffeted and exhausted, but the allotment soon smoothed me out. The first order of the day was clearing ground. I started by clearing out a couple of rows of baby kale from...
I cleared out the last of the broad beans and composted them, I was sad to see them go as they’ve been a new discovery for me and the rest of the family have enjoyed them too. I have two new bean beds ready for next year, so we should...
All of the hot and cold frames have been finished now, Debbie is putting the last of the polythene on tonight. That said I’ve found I have enough wood to make one more cold frame, so I’ve decided to make it on the existing butternut squash bed as that is...
Debbie finished topping the autumn hot bed yesterday, so that’s the October, November and December and hopefully January salad veg sorted. I popped down tonight to apply the slug nematodes to most of the beds, I didn’t bother with the brassica and asparagus beds as they look pretty slug resilient...