Gardening Hints & Tips

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Allotment Tales 14-08-2025 Another day of building heat, following two scorchers. The ground is very dry, so lots of watering today. Green manure sown a fortnight ago has already come […]

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 […]

May Day! A cool start after two days of high temperatures, but the morning warmed up as the sun emerged. Unusually, we started with a meeting. This was to discuss […]

Woolly hats and layers were back on today as conditions were damp and chilly – April showers later with short patches of sun.   Tattie planting continues. Today it was Heritage […]

A lovely sunny day! The allotment is at its most colourful just now with patches of brilliant yellow, mauve and crimson around bed edges and under trees. The sweet peas […]

April already! A disappointingly sharp, chilly morning after a few days of sunshine. However, the sun broke through around midday, which was very welcome! At the windbreak, wobbly end posts […]

A decent morning, mild with patches of sun, though increasingly breezy. Luckily, we’d packed up before the afternoon showers came on. Soil temperatures were up to 10 degrees centigrade – […]

The rain over the past week has helped plant growth and we didn’t get the hose out for a change. Everything is growing well including the weeds and all the […]

Spring Show time is getting closer.  Watch how George prepares his Hyacinths. I know he makes it look easy – but just to reassure you it really is that easy.