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...
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...
We ‘enjoyed’ our first night at the Premier Inn Hub Hotel, mostly because of the endless amusement, actually all out laughing fits, we experienced observing the stupid design decisions that negatively impacted our stay. It seems most likely that the room was designed by a committee, the dominant member...
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. ...