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

Cauliflower de Purple

Harvest Looking Good, Weather Not So Much.

Things are looking good with the harvest despite the weather. Cauliflowers to Carrots, Beans to Tomatoes and Cucumbers.

Anti-Rodent Potato Box, Hazel Trees, Savoys

Building a - hopefully - rat proof potato store, potting up hazel nut trees and planting out savoy cabbages for winter.

Cactus Flower

Peas, Tayberries & More

Gardening for children, flowers to fruits, it's all go at this time of year in the garden. The greenhouses doing well too.

Computer Technicians on 1960s computer

Dead website kills pressure cooker!

Yesterday the web site was either offline or so slow as to be unusable for the day so I was batch cooking in the kitchen.

Heatwave Ends, Jobs get Done!

Now the heatwave has broken I can get on with the garden tasks, I think 2023 is going to be the year of fruit! Happy Solstice.

Compost Bins made from Pallets

Should you Compost Weeds?

Is it possible to compost weeds? The answer is that it depends. In this case on which weeds and how they’re composted.

Supermarket empty shelves

UK Food Security & Price Inflation

I've concerns that the flooding of Ukrainian farmland is going to inflate UK food prices. It’s worse than I thought..

Chilli Tip, Hay Fever, Germination Rates, Food Supply

Trying out a cool tip for growing peppers, germination rates down? Expect more price hikes due to the Ukraine war.

Cucumber Success, Sweet Potatoes, Savoys

From cucumbers to sweet potatoes, taking advantage of the glorious weather we're enjoying at the moment in Wales.

For Peat’s Sake. The Peat Ban

Peat is to be banned for home growers next year. Is it justified and does it make sense? From the evidence, I don’t believe it does.

From Squash to Strawberries

Preparing for squash, runner beans poor, sweetcorn seedlings, gooseberry sawfly attacks jostaberries and strawberries ripen.

Commercial grower with potting compost

Problems with Coir Based Compost Growing Medium

With a ban looming for peat based composts, home growers are increasingly trying out coir based composts. Many are hitting problems.

Cauliflower Growing

Yes we have new potatoes!

New potatoes arrive, delicious cauliflower, peas and brassicas. Climbing beans, grass much improved and watching the farmer fertilise fields.

Buying in Plants

Just some thoughts about buying in plants instead of growing from seed. Sometimes it makes more sense to buy in young plants.

Strawberries, Spuds, Cucumbers, Sowing

It’s been an enjoyable, productive and busy week, both outside and in the potting shed, polytunnel and greenhouses.

Fruit Trees in Blossom

Tomatoes, Fruit Trees, Brassicas, Composting

Greenhouse tomatoes planted in border, fruit trees in heavy blossom, brassicas planted out and a Garden Tiger Moth woolly bear caterpillar!

Tea Bags

I did a little research on using tea leaves from spent tea bags in the garden bearing in mind the use of plastic in tea bag production

Greenhouse Preparations, Scarifying, Feeding Grass

Greenhouse border refreshed ready to plant. Grass areas scarified and fed to reduce the moss that was swamping it.

Tomatoes Planted in Quadgrows

Nutrigrow Vs. S-Chelate Comparison #1

Comparing S-Chelate 12 Star with Nutrigrow fertilisers in continuous feed systems like wicking pots and hydroponic systems.

Wood Chip Mulching Trees

Trees, Fruit, Potatoes, Onions.

Saturday was absolutely lovely here, blue skies and sunshine, so a chance to get ahead on some of the outside jobs.

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