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rained today, which meant that for the first time in months I didn’t have to do ANY watering, as the poly tunnels have been replaced by mesh tunnels and the greenhouse is self watering from below.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...
Today is my first retirement anniversary and it feels great! Deciding to retire was an amazingly good decision for me, much better than I’d hoped for and I had high hopes – although there were a few weeks of continuous rain over winter when I consider moving abroad for the...
It was a bit cooler today so I decided to bite the bullet and finish digging over the area under the trees, it went quickly as there were a lot fewer weed roots in this area of the plot and I was soon finished. I’ve now pretty much decided that...
I took Elona and her sister Grace to the allotment today and they worked hard on the weeding, giving me the chance to dig over more of the area under the trees. I’m not sure how practical gardening under the tress will be once the wind fall’s start, but it’s...
I’ve continued to work on clearing the weeds from the area under the trees and made good planting progress there as well. I built the bean frame yesterday and planted runner beans today, I’ve put in a variety that’s not meant to go stringy, which means that even though they...
I was out hiking today so I didn’t get to the allotment until gone 2pm. The hike/drive wasn’t wasted though as I gave some thought to how I was going to use the, area under the trees, I’d originally planned to grass it, but now I see how much sun...
Wow, it’s hot down on the allotment today, so this will be brief as I was out of there as quickly as possible. The main job for the day was taking the polythene off my second tunnel and replacing it with mesh. I only have one poly-tunnel now and I’m...
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...