Major cropping day today, all headed for the dinner tables and tomorrow’s smoothies and salad Jon cropped the potatoes. Then Jon trimmed all of the chives but one (left for cropping) they will soon regrow nice and fresh. The tidy of the chives left the rest of the bed clear...
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I’ve been focusing on the Britain In Bloom competition for the last couple of days and spent another hour this morning mowing the paths, it looked pretty good! I finally got some serious time to dedicate to my own plot today and that meant starting to turn my attention towards...
I’m not feeling too well today and it was raining, so I popped into Tesco, always anticipating a potential gardening bargain from there and I was not disappointed. I managed to buy 10 large planters for £10, perfect for late carrots and I bought a couple of packets of fly...
Cropped the last of the onions today, most of the allotmenteers are complaining of losing their crops to the onion fly, so can’t be too careful! Cleared the old strawberry bed now the crop is finished and stored the plants in the pallet fence Steph did some of the planting...
Back on the allotment for the first time in a few days, did a massive crop! Picked my first carrots While I’m away for a few days, Jon will be planting a few new seeds in place of some oriental salad that for some reason has failed to thrive. Chicory...
I’ve mostly been weeding today although I did crop a couple of bags of mixed veg for my smoothies and Pete gave me a cucumber. I also started as I mean to go on and spent a few minutes strimming the green drive. I decided to take the opportunity to...
Spent most of today and all of yesterday’s plot time working on the site, mostly strimming and mowing the green paths, the grass was long so I didn’t want to leave it on the ground, which meant a lot of compost needed to be made to use up all of...
I pulled a batch of onions today that freed me to do some serious planting, they’re not quite fully developed but they look good enough and another month in the ground might deliver another 50p of value, but a month of new crops will probably deliver £10 of crops and...
I’m really frustrated at the moment because I have so much to plant and nowhere to put anything else. I look across to the side of my plot though where I’m growing peas and beans and I see so little productivity there compared to my other beds, once they’ve cropped...