I had hoped the frost would herald some proper winter. I hate unendingly claggy, wet, grey days. I can feel my allotment mojo seeping away, and even though there is plenty to do, I struggle to muster much energy to tackle it. What does help is beginning to plan next year. […]
Those were pretty hard frosts. Anything that isn’t hardy has slumped, most noticeably the drifts of nasturtiums. And the oca. Last year it went down in stages, with the ‘killing […]
Yes it’s cheesey, but the weather forecast is a perfect opportunity to crowbar in GoT…Temperatures are set to hit zero or -1C, depending on your choice of weather service. I’m not sure all […]
One of the better allotment challenges is figuring out what to do with all the food I grow. Some of it’s easy – friends will take bags of veg, we […]
For me it was momentous. I took off the mesh to weed the mess that is the winter veg bed and will you just look at these! The Swede Curse […]
One of the (many) plus points of allotments is that, come Bonfire Night or thereabouts, you’ve got enough space to have a ruddy great fire. The work parties generate a […]
Pride comes before a fall. For the last 3 years I’ve been ineffably smug about my carrots. They are delicious; crunchy, sweet, and both pest and blemish-free. I grow them on my balcony – 7.5m high. Carrots mostly have one pest, carrot fly. And carrot fly are well-known for only flying […]
Monday was a glorious day – full sun and warm. I think my new greenhouse min/max thermometer was lying to me – if it had got down to 2.5C last […]
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