The fine days and more importantly the warmer nights are continuing so we took a chance and put in the first of the frost-tender plantings of courgettes, marrows and squashes […]
Finally, some warmer days. It is good to see the growth on the vegetables already sown and planted but, unfortunately, not on the carrots which had germinated by last week […]
Thursday was a chilly day on the allotment and the top of Arthur’s Seat had disappeared in the mist. The cold weather is holding things back, though all the blossom […]
The weather is getting slightly better with the nights becoming less chilly. Fortunately, we have had some rain, so the hosepipe stayed in the shed. The last of the main […]
The east wind is still blowing and giving us chilly days and even chillier nights but at least there is no frost. We got the hosepipe out again and gave […]
Another fine day made even better by the easing of restrictions on numbers meeting out of doors. For the first time in months, six of us have been able to […]
Still the best of sunny April days and now, with frost-free nights, it is time to start planting and sowing. The young broad bean plants – variety ‘Aquadulce Claudia’ – […]
We are having brilliantly sunny days at the moment but with such cold nights (with several degrees of frost) there is no point in doing any seed sowing. And that […]
Another week with ideal spring weather. The first of the potatoes, variety Arran Pilot, were planted into trenches dug a spade’s depth, with compost and leaf mould mixed in at the […]
