Life on a UK allotment
Finally all beds planted up this evening. Last on the list were the Courgette, Squash and Pumpkin plants in the bed vacated by the Garlic last week and the salad bed which is covered in polythene. Peas are starting to Read More …
Garlic harvested which was planted back in October and plenty of it but not as good as we were expecting. Â Could be interesting finding somewhere convenient for it to dry now.Bed will be dug over and some Squashes and Courgettes Read More …
Harvested the final potatoes for this year and will publish a final tally for reference for next year in another post. Also last of the runner beans, courgettes and some swedes. Also retired the runner beans and cleared the bed, Read More …
Winding down now and Lisa ventured own to the plot and brought back a trug of Corn, Courgettes, Runner Beans and a Cabbage. Turns out the Highland Red Potatoes have red flesh (sort of) in the end too!
Lisa visited the plot this evening while I was attempting to recover the ipad from IOS8(!) and returned with these goodies: The first corn of the season, not perfect but not bad for a first try 🙂 Some courgettes, a Read More …
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 …
Forgot to add in the previous potato post that we harvested 5.516Kg of Maris Peer second early potatoes and also 2.175Kg of Highland Red Burgundy but we still have 1 bin to empty of those so that figure will probably Read More …
Not the best weather and certainly felt more like October than August. Despite the weather whipped half the plot back into shape with plenty of weeding, started dismantling some of the nets and harvested 6 bins of potatoes. Hopefully weather Read More …
Weeds have started to take old of the plot, only takes a couple of weeks before it can get unruly down there so a visit is in order this weekend! Anyway this is what makes it worthwhile….. Could not believe Read More …
Including the first Green Zebra picked. (Tigerella was a typo)