Summer’s here! (kinda…)
Gluts haven’t quite arrived, bar a sudden surfeit of padron peppers, but I can see them a-coming on the horizon! Just need a bit more sun to start turning more […]
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 […]
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 […]
New toy!
The premature death of the culticave DID put a lot more pressure on…So, armed with everything I could think of, and after blackmailing Piero into helping for 2 hours, we loaded up the greenhouse into my titchy Mx5 (it’s so handy the roof comes off!) and I drove veeeeery slowly to […]
Starting mistletoe
Managed to shuftie round my day off so I could de-stress a bit on the allotment today. Nothing beats being outside, messing about with plants and with the sun on my back, though an Aperol spritz or 3 comes close on occasion. I drove over to my favourite garden centre […]
Choices, choices
This week was Committee meeting. Lots of interesting stuff. Including that we have a larger number of vacant plots than normal, so I’ve got to the point of having a chance at a second plot. That’s 3 years’ wait this time rather than my initial 5+ years. I’m not going to attempt […]
Moving mature gooseberries
My Mum’s back garden has always been a treasure trove for berries. I gave her at least one of the bushes as a twig when I was little and they are all still going strong over 30 years later. She just doesn’t want most of them anymore. It’s been much […]
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