Allotment Tales 26-06-2025 After a very wet night, today turned out mild with intermittent showers. On arrival, we were rewarded with a beautiful bed of bright red and black poppies. […]
Allotment Tales 19-06-2025 Another lovely day, with lots of watering required. Planting continues. Today it was the turn of dwarf French beans (Purple Teepee) and cabbage (Rodema and Tantour [...]
Allotment Tales 12-06-2025 A lovely sunny day with a slight background breeze – perfect conditions for what felt like peak planting week, with the soil warm and rain predicted for […]
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 […]
The sun continues to shine at the Bridgend Caley allotment, though a North Easterly breeze meant that the air was a bit nippy to start with. Today’s main activity was […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 – […]
A beautiful warm day saw us peeling off one or two layers and enjoying breaktime in the early Spring sunshine. Simple pleasures! We were high in numbers today so managed […]
