The annual Allotment Open Day will be on Sunday August 25th. The Open Day will feature a Summer Fruit Pruning Workshop, lead by George Anderson, which will begin at around 3pm. George’s [...]
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 [...]
No need for watering this morning as we dodged the torrential showers which were supposed to arrive in the afternoon. But warmth and rain make everything grow well and the plot is a sea of green. [...]
Summer has arrived with high temperatures and a brilliant blue sky. Most of the plants have grown so much with the rain of the past weeks, though some have succumbed to the cold and the slugs. [...]
The sowing and planting for the summer crops are almost finished. On Thursday, we planted out the runner beans (various varieties), some borlotti beans which are better for drying, French [...]
Thursday was a dull day which promised rain – something that certainly happened, but we did manage to get the grass cut and, as recommended by the BBC programme ‘Springwatch’, [...]
May is the busiest month on the allotment with so much sowing and planting to be done as well as keeping up with the weeding and grass cutting. Today the Brussel sprouts and late cabbages [...]
