Dear 2016, you suck.
If this year’s allotmenteering were the Pilgrim’s Progress, right now I would be squarely in the Slough of Despond. I went into the greenhouse last night and discovered I have blight. […]
If this year’s allotmenteering were the Pilgrim’s Progress, right now I would be squarely in the Slough of Despond. I went into the greenhouse last night and discovered I have blight. […]
Warning: small amount of trumpet-blowing to follow. August’s Grow Your Own magazine has my grinning face at the top of page 36! This is my first ever gardening article and I […]
For now it looks as if the monsoon has come to an end, my ark won’t be needed and the water is (gradually) subsiding from the plot. I am still dispatching […]
Fresh peas are like sweetcorn – sugars start turning to starch as soon as they are picked, so the taste difference between freshly picked and shop-bought is massive. I’ve never […]
This season is starting to feel remarkably like 2012, when I first got my plot. The heavens opened just after I stuck my spuds in and stayed that way for […]
I’ve been a bit lax about updating recently. Partly because of the incessant rain, partly because I’d like to make a video update and partly because I’ve had a horrible bug […]
It’s been nearly a week of dull grey skies, thumping rain and temperatures more at home in early April than June, but I think that was just what my plot […]
Planting out is one of my favourite things, as well as a blessed relief from digging. I’ve had help – Himself came up and put in 3 rows of Crapaudine beets, as […]