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...
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...
March is my busiest sowing month, so it’s quite a relief to get to April. I have dozens of seed trays full of healthy plants now and many of the February and early March sowings are in the ground. The main challenge has been the onions, I’ve had a couple...
Allotment Finances We’ve harvested a total of £667 of fruit veg this year We’ve spent a total of £385 this year, mostly one time investments What we’ve harvested and eaten We harvested a total of £135 worth of veg this week, excluding everything from the store. We had 33 meals...
March is my busiest sowing month and a lot of my sowing decisions are driven by having enough space to germinate and pot on seeds/seedlings. In this video I show you the progress of my January and February sowings which are doing fairly well. To really appreciate the progress I...
Allotment Finances We’ve harvested a total of £560 of fruit veg this year We’ve spent a total of £312 this year, mostly one time investments What we’ve harvested and eaten We harvested a total of £80 worth of veg this week, excluding everything from the store. We had 30 meals...
This video provides an overview of everything that I’m growing – but not harvesting – in January and everything that I’m sowing in Feburay. If you want to see what I’m harvesting in January you can check out the following video: The video shows several databases that I’m using to...
What We’ve harvested and eaten We harvested a ‘grand’ total of £52 worth of veg this week, excluding anything from the store. We had 19 meals with ingredients from the allotment. It’s been a good harvest week, the plots have recovered from being picked hard for the big Christmas...
Let’s get this out of the way immediately: there’s no desperate need to sow in January. I’m doing it for some very specific reasons that I explain in the video, but normally sowing in the autumn and mid-February onwards are the best times. That said there are a few things...
This is a new monthly video where I will do a quick run through of the seedlings that I’m sowing and growing on and planting out during the current month. I will try and do it early in the month, in case I inspire anyone to do likewise, but remember...