This is my favourite time of year. Most of the work has been done, so it’s all pottering and harvesting until September. In this video I take you on a quick tour of the summer planting and the plants that will be coming into harvest in early summer. Then we...
If you received this via email click here to get all of the images and videos! Allotment Finances We’ve harvested a total of £2,585 of fruit and veg this year. We’ve spent a total of £672 this year, mostly one time investments. What we’ve harvested and eaten We harvested a...
In this video I talk about my updated allotment objectives and plans for the year. I’ve basically met my challenges for this year: – Increase my March/April harvests – Nearly quadrupled – Harvest a huge amount of food – on target for £10,000/year – Cover my costs for the year...
Although I decided not to plant my tomatoes early, because I don’t have very good space to grow them on and because I dislike potting them on, I still ended up having to plant them out in the polytunnel beds early. In fact they are almost exactly the same sized...
This is a short video with some hints and tips on how to construct a quick and easy bean frame. It seems simple of course, but when we walk around the allotments it’s amazing to see the variations in the design that people use, some to great effect, but most...
Allotment Finances We’ve harvested a total of £2408 of fruit and veg this year. We’ve spent a total of £672 this year, mostly one time investments. This week we spent almost as much as we harvested! What we’ve harvested and eaten We harvested a total of £193 worth of veg...
It’s time to plant out the main crop brassicas. I already have plenty of over-wintered plants in the ground, as welll as my early kales, so we have plenty to eat for now. It’s time though to put in the brassicas that will feed us from Autumn until Spring. Although...
April is my busiest month, huge harvests, lots of sowing, but even more planting and lots of beds to clear and recondition ready for May planting, so it’s quite a relief to get to May. I have dozens of seed trays full of healthy plants now and many of the...
We are now in the hungry gap, that time of year when traditionally there’s not been much to harvest. I’ve gradually been working to make the hungry gap a bit more abundant for us and that’s important because we are self-sufficient in veg. I’ve a series of videos that cover...
Allotment Finances We’ve harvested a total of £2205 of fruit and veg this year We’ve spent a total of £482 this year, mostly one time investments What we’ve harvested and eaten We harvested a total of £170 worth of veg this week, excluding everything from the store. This is quite...