The swede taste of success!
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 […]
Bonfires and whizzbangs
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 […]
Carrot karma, saffron weigh-ins and the winter squash invasion
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 […]
Garlic’s in!
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 […]
Autumn foraging – quinces and sloes
Living in south London doesn’t mean I have to work that hard or pedal too far on the foraging front. There are mini orchards of apples on common land along the river, and I’ve […]
Work parties
The first of the site work parties is over. I now can’t lift my arms higher than my shoulders and I swear I creak when I move. Half the blackthorn […]
Pickling turnips & drilling popcorn
Last weekend came another in the seemingly unending list of things I never thought I would say/do: ‘you guys watch the film, I want to pickle a turnip’. I had one the size […]
One last hurrah…
It feels almost as if the plots are holding their breath, hanging on to one last bit of warmth before winter advances. The greenhouse looks strange and very bare without […]
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