Another milestone in the allotmenteer’s calendar!
Allotment Tales 31-07-2025 Mild and overcast, but a nice temperature for working. Our lovely strawberries are finished, so time to remove old leaves and straw for another year. Looking ahead […]
Bad news on the brassica front!
Allotment Tales 24-07-25 Muggy and cloudy today. Lots of weeding amongst the peas, parsnips and cabbages and along paths. Self-sown poppies and spires of rosebay willow herb have looked beautiful [...]
A breezy, cloudy start to July!
Allotment Tales 03-07-2025 A breezy, cloudy start to July but at least we missed yesterday’s deluge, which has done wonders for the weeds and soft fruit! Pam and Richard (from […]
“Live and let live” on the Allotment
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 [...]
A sunny day on the Allotment 🌞
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 […]
Another day, another bonfire!
Another week and the pleasure of another bonfire! The new raspberry canes were planted. The variety is ‘Glen Ample’. Raspberries are hungry plants, so the planting holes had plenty of […]
