Life on a UK allotment
Being used to temporarily store some tomato plants until greenhouse up and running, and a recent lick of paint before a planned rebuild later in the year but the citrus trees are in full bloom and the large lemon tree Read More …
Turns out the Green lime ordered last spring was in fact a Lemon of some description. Contacted Suttons Seeds who were very good about it this time (unlike the fiasco of the state of the red lime in the original Read More …
Snuck in there but we have our first lime on one of the trees purchased in the spring. Excellent. No sign of any on the red lime tree yet though 🙁 And the Lemon tree is already loaded with quite Read More …
The Purple Sweet Peppers plants continue to sprout flowers so hoping get some peppers but they are certainly late bloomers. Some of the lemons on the tree are beginning to turn yellow now, just in time for Christmas! And finally Read More …
The Calomondin tree is full of fruit at the moment and we have a bumper crop of lemons on the way yet again. Finally the Purple Pepper plants have started flowering (better late than never I suppose!)
Ventured down the plot in this Indian Summer weather this evening to replace the rotten raised bed board from the weekend, so all in and sorted. Also reclaimed the Conservatory back with the harvesting of the final peppers and tomatoes Read More …
Bumper harvest of Tomatoes today and a few more sweet peppers 🙂
Some Sweet Peppers today form the conservatory.
Finally the first one ripens!
Including the first Green Zebra picked. (Tigerella was a typo)