Allotment Garden Diary

Slowed Down Compost Bin – Using a Compost Accelerator

In Winter the compost bins slow down so I like to use a compost accelerator to give them a quick boost ahead of the growing season.

The Good, The Bad and Well I Never!

It’s been a poor year for weather and the harvest so far is pretty mixed. Anyway, in classic style I’ll cover the good, the bad and surprises.

Leeks, Strawberries, Cabbage & Free Spuds

Hard to believe it’s late August here. Yesterday the weather was so awful. Rained all day with high winds, gusting to 50mph.

Potatoes, Tomatoes, Beans & Cabbage

A bit of half-decent weather is getting me outside more. Harvesting potatoes, beans and cabbage. Trying to get what we can from the tomatoes.

Cauliflowers, Beans, Quadgrow Disaster

Did well with cauliflowers despite slugs, harvesting broad and French beans. Another flush of strawberries. Maybe lost the Quadgrows tomatoes.

Tomatoes Start & Stop, Protom Arrives, Brassicas, Slugs, Weather.

Tomato harvest starts, Protom fertiliser arrives, problems with brassicas and slugs causing major problems. At least the weather improved!

S-Chelate Introduce New Tomato Feed

S-Chelate have launched a new super concentrated professional fertiliser formulated specifically for tomato growing.

Gardening questions and answers – July 2024

Just a few of the questions this month. Deterring blackfly, controlling slugs on brassicas and great tip on saving strawberries from slugs.

Highs and Lows

I must admit this weather is really getting me down.. Still, I’ve got the greenhouses and the polytunnel where I can play.

Re-sowing seeds, salad bed, propagating strawberries.

This has been a really difficult season so far. The weather is really against us and the pest pressure is crazy.

Cool Weather, Salad Bed, Snails, Fertiliser, Timber!

This unseasonably cool weather brings its own problems. In the Eden greenhouse sweetcorn that really needs planting out but it’s too cold.

Keeping Water Clean & Safe

Envii have developed a biological solution to keeping water sweet in the butt and stopping algae growth whilst protecting plants and promoting growth.

Late Sowing Seeds and Planting Out

Answering ‘Is it too late to plant..?’ it depends on what the crop is, how it’s grown and what the weather is doing

Catching Up in Good Weather

A scorching weekend (by North Wales standards) which helped me catch up on some jobs although there’s still lots to do.

Tomatoes, Brassicas, Beans and more

Tomatoes planted out in greenhouse border, Brassicas planted out in their tunnel and beans in the rootrainers ready to go out.

Cold Weather Causes Problems

Delays in planting out due to the cold weather means the propagators and greenhouse benches are overly full

Chitting, germination test, blueberries, strawberries

Finally, at last, the weather has changed. for the better and we're racing to catch up a bit now we can garden again.

Weather not Good, I’m not Well

The strong winds and general sogginess making outside tasks impracticable. Frustration meter now at 150% as jobs become urgent

Cabbage Surprise, Strawberries, Peas

Catching up on progress for the week. Surprise cabbages, peas popping up, Silly cat nearly spends the night in the greenhouse

Envii Maximato Tomato Feed & Allgrow Multi-Purpose Release

Envii, market leaders in biological and organic products for gardeners and horticulturalists, have just released two new organic products. Maximato Tomato Feed and Allgrow All Purpose Feed. Envii Maximato Tomato Feed Envii Maximato is their organic liquid tomato feed made…