A chilly day on the allotment but no rain so we were able to get all the work done starting with the planting of the onion sets. These will be ready in early summer so a little earlier than [...]
The cold nights of the last few days have finished the courgettes and squashes. The sweetcorn has finished cropping and we have done well this year with cobs and the mini corn. It was off to [...]
A day mostly spent picking – autumn raspberries; runner beans; dwarf French beans and corn. We also dug up carrots. The wonderfully coloured red Borlotti beans and the Black Pod beans are [...]
With rain threatened, the first job on Thursday was to pick the soft fruit before it got wet, then on with digging up the trial potatoes and weighing them. We were using different kinds of [...]
Thursday morning spent picking collections of fruit and vegetables for the Dalkeith Show and for a display on the Caley stand at the Dundee Flower and Food Festival – both over the [...]
Quite a wind on Thursday, but the sun was shining as we worked on finishing the pruning of the fruit after the workshop on Sunday and tied in the new growth on the soft fruit. The prunings are [...]
We had a final push to tidy up the plot for the Open Day on Sunday with the grass and edges cut, more weeding, all labels checked, and the high raised bed mended. After that there was the usual – [...]
Last week the strawberries were given a cutback and a feed to allow the new leaves to develop. The plants are four years old and are losing vigour, so this autumn we shall buy in new plants [...]
A pleasant day and we had the pleasure of seeing the peacock butterflies on the teasel flowers. What wasn’t so good were the wasps determined to reach the white currants we had picked. A lot of [...]
A pleasant day for working on the plot. Two rows of beetroot were planted out. These had been grown as plug plants to give them a headstart over the slugs and snails and the remainder of the root [...]
