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 […]
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 […]
Defending potatoes and unseasonal warmth
One of the better allotment challenges is figuring out what to do with all the food I grow. Some of it’s easy – friends will take bags of veg, we […]
Cake, and lots of it
This weekend was the allotment summer tea party. Rarely has so much cake been gathered in one place…There are some very competitive, talented bakers in our midst and the table was crammed with goodies. Thanks to stirling efforts and elastic waistbands most of it was scoffed. It really was a lovely […]
Back to Blighty
After a week away in gorgeous Oslo, basking in the sun and swimming in the fjord. Despite it being colder here than the much more northern there, most of my stuff has put on a massive growth spurt while I was away. My waterers have done brilliantly, and the rain […]
Storm 1, culticave 0
My first trip up since the storms at the beginning of the week and there’s a fair bit of damage on site. My culticave didn’t survive. It’s over by to the cemetery fence…the wind snapped the guy ropes and it must have cartwheeled over there because my pea seedlings are […]
Fantastic, glorious sunshine – and a new path!
And to round the day off there is a gorgeous emerald-green parakeet on my window feeder, lit up by a sunset sunbeam and scoffing sunflower seeds. The great spotted woodpecker […]
Harvest barrow
An allotment first this weekend – having to barrow my harvest to the car! And Lionel gave me some delicious figs – I wish I had space for a fig tree! […]
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