A pleasantly cool day and back to watering everything. The strawberries had the old leaves cut out, were given a feed and were watered. Dead plants were removed and replaced. The apples and [...]
A dull, warm and humid day but we didn’t need to do any watering today after all the rain there has been this past week. We didn’t manage to do the thinning of the apples and plums [...]
Still scorching weather but the fruit and veg are all doing amazingly well with only a weekly watering. We spent most of today harvesting, watering and doing some weeding. The beds are pretty [...]
Why not come along to the Open Day on the Caley Allotment and find out what the Allotment Team gets up to. There will be a Summer Fruit Pruning workshop given by Caley Honorary President (and [...]
A cooler day today meant that we could be more energetic on the plot and spent much time catching up on the weeding on the paths. Most of the veg are loving the heatwave and they get a good [...]
Such a pleasure to be out working on the plot today in the sunshine but as we have had no rain for some time now, we shall need to have the hose out each week to keep the plants growing on well. [...]
A sunny day but still a cold wind. All of the apples are covered in amazing display of blossom. The saskatoon (Amelanchier alnifolia) is in full flower too. The cold spring is definitely [...]
A busy day on the plot with clearing, sowing, planting and digging done and the first cut of the year for the grass. The strawberry bed had its protective matting taken off to let us in to weed, [...]
Today the remaining potatoes were planted out and we had another bonfire to clear the plot of waste wood. Last week a sowing was made of carrots and beetroot, so we shall wait for another couple [...]
On Thursday there was no sign of warmer days and a cold east wind was blowing which kept the allotment crew on the move. Plans to get the early potatoes in and sow the first rows of carrots and [...]
