Veg Growing

If Our Crops Fail, We Fail  –  Farming, Climate Change and how you can make a difference  by Cora Moran (2025). Independent Publishing Network. ISBN 978-1-83654-756-3 With the climate [...]

Allotment Tales 8 th October 2026 A beautiful sunny day awaited us – clear blue skies and wonderful views of Arthur’s Seat, one of  those lovely crispy autumnal days we […]

Another, lovely sunny day at Bridgend Caley – it’s gone from feeling very autumnal a few days ago to an Indian summer today. Our thermals lie in wait!!!  With such […]

My ‘go-to’ book for vegetable growing has to be ‘Vegetables‘ by Roger Phillips and Martyn Rix. It claims to be ‘The Definitive Guide for Gardeners’ and if you want to […]

A lovely sunny day at Bridgend Caley with a few blustery gusts, the heavy rain the previous day had clearly given the grass and pesky weeds a great boost!!! It’s […]

It was overcast and breezy when the team were on the allotment last Thursday, but still mild for the first September session. The FEDAGA/Caley “Grow and Show Together” event was […]

We’ve had two sunny Thursdays. It’s been great being amongst the bounty, though hard going at times, working in high temperatures and humidity. No complaining though! Harvesting, watering and [...]

Two weeks of sunshine have seen temperatures rising and crops ripening. The fruit harvest has really kicked in. Last Thursday  (2nd) the team picked punnets of strawberries, black and white […]

Thursday on the allotment was full of glorious sunshine for the third successive day. Everything at the allotment seems super-charged – crops and weeds alike. It’s suddenly peak strawberry [...]

It is hard to think that on the 11th June the team abandoned ship after coffee following a valiant attempt at plot maintenance in heavy rain. Then a week later […]