New Brassica Cage
Building a new protective brassica cage for the walled vegetable garden.
Allotment Garden Diary
Growing Your Own, Gardening and Allotment Advice
Allotment Garden Diary
My diary of my attempts, success and failures growing vegetables, fruit, herbs and gardening on an allotment.sized vegetable plot with a garden as well
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Sun, Sweetcorn & Beans
Burned in the sun, planted out sweetcorn and starting the French and Runner Beans
Rain, New Book Progress, Sowing & a Song
Getting things in order whilst actually enjoying some rain!
A snapshot of my greenhouses
Sometimes there's that much going on the easiest thing to do is grab what's happening on a particular day.
Dry, Spuds, Beans, Currants & Strawberries
We need some rain.. but things are moving along and crops coming. Reorganising the walled vegetable plot
Polytunnel, Greenhouse & a Small Disaster
Not everything going smoothly or to plan but things are coming together!
Preparing the Squash Bed
Last year I enjoyed great success with squash and pumpkins in the field plot so this year I'm further improving the soil and creating a new bed for squash.
Sweetcorn, Climbing Beans, Leeks
The weather has been amazing, warm and dry, so getting on with things outside when work allows. The saga of the leeks, headbanging time!
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New Beds, Sowing, Potatoes
Making the most of some decent weather by catching up on the plot. Well behind but we're getting there.
Home Made Hand Sanitiser – Anti Viral
How to make your own anti-viral hand sanitiser at home. Keep safe and save money.
Autovents, Strawberries & Tomatoes
Spares for the autovents, more on strawberry growing and too many tomatoes by far.
Soul Food!
I rarely mention flowers as I concentrate on growing for the table but man does not live on brassicas alone. Some food for the soul.
Rejuvenate Your Potting Compost
With garden centres closed where to get potting compost? Rejuvenate old compost. A lesson from history as well that we can take heart in.
Allotment Questions about the virus lock down
I'm getting lots of questions about allotmenting in this situation. Too many to reply to individually, sorry. Hopefully this will answer most of them.
Virus Update, Allotments Open, Books & Tools
Some unexpected effects of the pandemic on allotment and home growers. Getting deliveries out for us and our partners.
3 Signs of Spring
Spring is here and I can prove it. Got the peas and broad beans planted but the bench space in the greenhouse has been occupied.
Growbag Waterer
Trying out the Hozelock growbag waterer. A wick based system which should give better results with a growbag.
Heeling in the Leeks
How to heel leeks in. This will free space for your other crops. The leeks will keep fresh and well for a few weeks after heeling in.
Coping with difficult times
We're social distancing as the government suggest. Our book sales will continue in the UK only, Progress on Dig for Victory
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