For an overview of everything that I’m sowing for the whole year, please take a look at my month-by-month sowing guide. April has had it’s ups and downs, that’s for sure! Set aside Covid 19 and the associated lockdown, the biggest challenge has been blazing hot sun during the day...
For an overview of everything that I’m sowing for the whole year, please take a look at my month-by-month sowing guide. March is the most important sowing month, but April is still critical. It’s the month when I get to re-sow things that failed in March! (kalettes) and the month...
For an overview of everything that I’m sowing for the whole year, please take a look at my month-by-month sowing guide. I don’t generally recommend sowing anything in January unless you have very specific circumstances, but February is different. By the time – mid Feb planted – seedlings are breaking...
I don’t generally recommend sowing anything in January. It’s easy to germinate seedlings at home of course, but then you will find that it’s too warm and the light levels are too low, so you will get leggy seedlings. If you move them to an unheated greenhouse, they will grow...
After a wet August and September October has been a pleasant surprise. We’ve still had plenty of rain, but it’s been balanced by a reasonable amount of sunshine and I’ve certainly enjoyed plenty of time away from the allotments. The plants have enjoyed the weather too and everything is now...
October, like September, has been a challenging month in the garden. High winds, lots of rain and not much sun. I even had to put cold-frame lids over new plantings of lettuce to protect them from the gales and hail! It looks like everything has pulled through though, the squash...
August, like July, has been a challenging month in the garden. High winds, lots of rain and not much sun. I even had to put cold-frame lids over new plantings of lettuce to protect them from the gales and hail! It looks like everything has pulled through though, the squash...
July has probably topped June in the crazy month awards, with a few days colder than February and then blazing hot a few days later followed by gales and heavy rain. The beans have suffered the most, only just starting to climb. The squash and brassicas (that survived cabbage root...
May has been a much more relaxed month than April, sowing just a few seeds and a leisurely planting schedule. Almost all of the summer planting is complete now, with about half of the autumn/winter brassica’s in too. The focus now switches to preparing for an abundant winter and spring,...
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...