A chilly day on the Allotment
Thursday on the Allotment was very chilly and dull. Unfortunately, the promised sun didn’t appear. We worked again on repair of raised beds, finished cutting back the willow, checked all [...]
Harvest Time on the Allotment.
The best crop ever from the plum tree as you can see from the photograph and there are even more on the side. All the plums were taken off the tree and the slightly less ripe ones will go to jam [...]
Almost time for plums.
A pleasantly warm day with sunshine to speed up the ripening of the Victoria plums. They are looking ready to pick but are still sticking resolutely to the branches! Last week all the old [...]
Poor showing on the allotment.
The buds on the newly planted cherry are filling out so time to net it against the bullfinches who would strip in in no time. We haven’t seen any but don’t want to take the chance. [...]
Allotment News
Blue skies and warm sunshine today even allowed the more hardy of us to take off jackets. After all the snow, the ground is not dry enough to do any work on it but as the days lengthen, it is [...]
Give your fruit trees a warning!
A snell wind today to use a good Scots word, but the sun was shining. The winter fruit pruning workshop on Sunday was even more popular than usual with about 40 people turning up to watch George [...]
