Harvest

At last – T-shirt weather has arrived (at least for the day!). Alas! The slugs have eaten yet another crop of juicy young bean plants. Optimistically we planted yet another […]

  Thursday saw another day of weeding and harvesting. With no wind or rain it positively balmy (as long as you had a fleece on!) We focused on the paths […]

Last Thursday was good day for lifting the main crop potatoes and what a harvest we had! They were laid out to dry before bagging up for storage. Each row […]

Another good day on the weeding, as we concentrate on keeping the fruit and veg beds free of weeds, with a more relaxed approach to the flower beds round the […]

Finally we had a still, dry day at the Allotment so good weather for giving the fruit trees a winter wash to control insect and aphid eggs. Repairs started on […]

It rained on Thursday at the start of our stint and it didn’t ease off at all! However, we did manage to pick up a load of windfall apples and […]

After the heavy rains of the week before, last Thursday we, the allotment crew,  were thankful for a day of sunshine, so good for the potato lifting. All the main […]

Thursday was a fine day for harvesting. The first of the sweetcorn is ready early because of the hot weather – a nice treat. Some crops, like the peas and […]

On Thursday more winter veg were planted out – Swiss chard, red cabbage and Savoy cabbages. A weekly soak and more normal temperatures are certainly benefitting the plants. This is […]

The sounds of the skeins of geese flying high on their journey south reminds us that autumn is definitely here, but there is still plenty to harvest and plenty of […]