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 […]
A lovely sunny day, unless you were standing under the shadow of the huge conifer proudly overlooking us !! More work done in preparation for the growing season. A trench […]
A breezy, bright day that kept the midges away – lovely to work with the sun on our backs. Today, there was lots of activity in a quieter corner of […]
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 […]
A gentle autumnal day, the sun on our backs as we continued winding down the allotment for Winter. We weeded inside the fruit cage and amongst the leeks, took […]
Woollen bunnets are now firmly clamped on until the end of April 2025! However, it was a treat to be able to have our coffee break in the autumnal sunshine. […]
Thursday was a bit sharp and overcast to start with (after 2 glorious days of sun) but the sunshine eventually won out over the haar approaching from Arthur’s Seat. We […]
Thursday was a bit breezy with – dare we say it – an autumnal edge. Have we officially been cheated out of summer, or do we optimistically hold on for […]
