We’ve been away from the allotment for four days, so it’s remarkable to see how much everything has grown. The dwarf beans being the best example, they were just breaking through a week ago, so much so that we could hardly see them to weed around and now look at...
Debbie and I are in Edinburgh today, so the kids are looking after the allotment. We however have been scouting for ideas at the Royal Botanic Gardens, fruit and veg demonstration plots. This is what we’ve seen! We loved these fruit cages and the way that everything had been cordon...
I’d planned to have an easy morning today, chilling out in my favourite cafe’s, but it turned out that it was a bank holiday (I’m retired so who cares) so I was straight down to the allotment at 7am. Since Debbie and I are away for a few days in...
I created my carrot planters today and filled them with compost, which is a bad idea apparently as they don’t like nitrogen, but that’s what I had available, so we will see how it goes, we might be eating forked carrots this autumn. Then I used our freely available horse...
Debbie joined me today and so we had the opportunity to do a really good tidy up, especially of the communal green paths that surround our plot and our neighbours on all sides. What made this possible was the Ryobi rechargeable strimmer which arrived yesterday and it worked a treat. ...