I like to spend an hour or so on the allotment a few days a week in winter, just keeping on top of things before it gets really busy in mid-February. Today I planted out the first and second successions of early peas, my second succession of calabrese and some...
Every couple of weeks I do a tour of the allotments to show what we’ve been working on during the last few weeks and the progress – or otherwise – on the plots. If you are new to my allotment videos you might find a bit of context useful. We...
NOTE: apologies for the low volume audio running in the background of this video, I forgot to set the volume to zero during editing. Lots of people have requested some insight into what we eat from the allotment after seeing so many harvests. I’ve managed to cobble together a few...
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/2agNFp5IxGQ/hqdefault.jpg If you’ve been following along you will know that I keep a rough tally of what I harvest and what I spend in £ on the allotment. This December we spent nothing and harvested £239 worth of veg and of course ate loads from the store. This was enough...
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/aHFKdjqJPRM/hqdefault.jpg We just went through the allotment store to check everything out. Fortunately we only had a couple of rotten spuds, two sprouting garlic cloves and a couple of mouldy onions. Everything else was in fairly good, or very good condition, so it’s all back in the store and this...
I spent my first afternoon at the allotment yesterday and it surprised me, in ways that I didn’t expect. I expected a patch of bare earth, in the midst of lots of other patches to be perhaps the definition of unsurprising, but I was wrong. It proved to be really...