Amanda from AJ’s Allotment asked me to answer 5 questions and then tag 5 additional people who I’d like to see answer the same questions. There’s no obligation to answer of course, but if you fancy it, then I’m sure people would appreciate the answers. So first, thanks to Amanda...
Here’s a quick video to show what self-sufficiency in most seasonal veg looks like on the allotment today. I take a quick walk around the plots and do a typical February harvest, then I take a few bits from the store room at home and show everything cleaned up in...
It’s been a busy week on the allotments, spurred on by pretty great weather! I’ve done a lot of work on Jennie’s plot, forking and mulching the potato bed with well rotted manure and preparing the potato pots. I’ve also mulched the brassica bed with spent mushroom compost, now all...
Today’s video is in response to a viewer’s request. Apparently I’m always mentioning smoothie’s on the videos and so a video of making them was a good idea too. Smoothie’s are particularly important at this time of year, because leaves for salads are a bit thin on the ground, whereas...
In today’s video I provide an update on what’s happened over the last few days. The focus continues to be on reducing our spring and summer workload, preparing for spring and getting ready for the polytunnel. Specifically I pot up early strawberries. Plant lettuces and beets (for leaves), carry a...
This is a short video showing the progress on Jennie’s plot. It’s taken a while to film it because the weather has just been too windy to get decent audio, but today it’s finally bearable. There’s not much progress to report. I’m still raving about kalette’s which are the best...
Last weekend I enlisted the help of some – wood burner owning – friends and we took down the old – unproductive – apples trees on my plot. I was a big job that’s left me exhausted for a few days but I’m on the mend now and making plans....
Everything is as it should be on Debbie’s plot. She’s mulching the beds with her excellent home made compost, pruning the apple trees and training them to their support wires, and continuing to harvest. At the moment the most prolific harvest is coming from the winter miners lettuce, but the...
I’m taking advantage of a few good days to do a quick tour of my plot, but more importantly I’m also working with a couple of friends to take down my old cooking apples trees and a very poor eater. This will open up a huge area on my plot,...
Today’s video shows the process of emptying last years hot bed and then filling it again and also filling the new hotbed. The process is fairly simple to describe: First I fill the empty hotbed with 18″ of compressed horse bedding (manure). Depending on the proportion of droppings I also...