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A lovely sunny day at Bridgend Caley with a few blustery gusts, the heavy rain the previous day had clearly given the grass and pesky weeds a great boost!!! It’s […]

A nippy and blustery day at the allotment with the occasional flurry of showers to keep us on our toes, a bit different from the tropical temperatures yesterday! There were […]

Slight autumnal mistiness – but mild and settled, with today’s activities reflecting subtle seasonal changes. We completed our FEDAGA order for tatties, onions and leeks, sharpened a few tools [...]

Thursday on the allotment was full of glorious sunshine for the third successive day. Everything at the allotment seems super-charged – crops and weeds alike. It’s suddenly peak strawberry [...]

A bit dreich and chilly for the first day back at the plot. Too damp for a bonfire, but a few Winter tasks kept us busy and relatively warm up […]

Heavy rain prevented play last week. But this Thursday we had freezing conditions. Think our allotment days will be getting shorter as Winter progresses. We stuck around till coffee time, […]

Allotment Tales 21-08-2025 A cooler feel to the air first thing, though the sun broke through and warmed things up. Richard and Pam arrived with lovely new signs for the […]

Allotment Tales 05-06-2025 Much appreciated respite from the wind today, mild with a little sun thrown in for good measure. Some bracing was required on the Climbing spinach teepee, which […]

A double blog this week. The sun shone on the 22nd. Protecting our young crops was a main activity – netting over the strawberries which have magically appeared in abundance […]

It was a fine, calm day after Storm Ashley’s visit, the previous weekend.  The first job was to mend the netting around the sprouts and cabbages, also to gather the […]