Warning: contains swearing
I put 4 oca tubers in a 40L bag, late last year as part of the experiment to see what difference it made to plant late. Lesson 1: late planting […]
Swamps R Us
Ev-e-ry time plot #92 gets close to being workable it s*dding rains. The front of the greenhouse was a lake, despite the new bit of path along the side doing […]
That’s ME that is!
Mudandgluts is Jane Perrone’s recommended blog in April’s issue of Grow Your Own magazine! That’s two lovely magazine reviews. In the words of the sainted Victor Meldrew, ‘I don’t BELIEVE it!’ […]
Blackcurrants and backache
Yesterday was the day, though initially only for planting out Mum’s new morello cherry fan. A mere 30 minutes after breaking ground it was tucked up with a bag of […]
Starve a cold, feed your seedaholism
Itchy throat? Tick. Swimmy ears? Tick. Unspecified achiness? Tick. Must be the annual pre-Spring cold…and I’m ignoring the maxim and medicating with tea and carrot cake. But cheesey grins also […]
All about the flaaaahs
Back in the mists of 2012, when I started this allotmenteering lark, I pooh-poohed any suggestion of growing flowers. If it wasn’t edible, I wasn’t growing it. I’ve got a […]
I’ll huff and I’ll puff
Imogen blew out 2 panels in my greenhouse, one completely, but thankfully that’s the only major damage. Someone very kindly put the panel inside. It’s plastic, not glass so still […]
Seedy Sunday Brighton
Brighton’s Seedy Sunday has been a date in my diary for a while now. I went with 20-odd packets of seeds stuffed into my camera bag and not knowing quite what to expect. […]
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