Greening dark & tiny spaces
Randall Towers shares a small, north-facing balcony. It gets some sun, but not excessive amounts. Usually I use it to isolate chilli plants for seed saving or to harden off the phalanxes […]
Seedling hokey-cokey
Spring is sprung, the grass is riz…So much so that I’m already out with the shears, trimming back grassy borders to the plot. Clippings go in the daleks, in happy […]
Hailhead
Devon, specifically Exeter, doesn’t like us much. We’ve been there with Small Child and, as usual, the weather was pretty stinking. Saturday treated us to cold, fleeting sun and, to add insult to injury, hail. Which stuck in my hair, inspiring Himself to call me Hailhead all afternoon. I wasn’t […]
Petard – hoist by my own…or a fear of direct sowing
Michelle strews seed around in gay abandon on her Wycombe plot and, more often than not, plants pop up, just like they should. I try it and Nature descends – mice […]
For better or for worse
I’ve done it. I’ve dug up the Christmas Pippin. It didn’t take long – just over an hour to dig up, wash the roots clean, check for horsetail and pot […]
Self-kippering, a guide
Wait for weeks for the wind to be from the right direction on a dry day. Build a substantial fire, unwittingly using damp straw at the base. Light. Absent-mindedly stand downwind. Later […]
Not just the first day of Spring…
It’s my plotiversary! On this day four years ago I took on Plot 100 and my obsession with growing fruit and veg began. Who’d’a thunk I’d so happily swap vertiginous […]
Of rhubarb & raspberries
There is a common maxim that my allotmenteering life follows. If I put in permanent planting, I will want to move it, usually the following year. The saffron’s been moved, red […]
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