Life on a UK allotment
Visited the plot in the evening to give it a water and check on everything. Looking good. Hoping the recent warmth will give everything a spurt of growth now. Various photos updating the status of the crops in the next update Read More …
The Hoops for the cloche builds are 8 feet in length and a 50m length gives enough hoops for 4 cloches with 5 hoops per cloche. Here’s the low tech method used to get the 8 foot lengths cut! Read More …
Another day away from the allotment so caught up on some tasks at home today. Amongst them planting the second lot of salad plants we received (in error), Potted on the Purple Sweet Peppers seedlings and re-potted the Pomegranate, Tummelberry Read More …
Getting very humid in the Conservatory now! Tomato plants are going great especially the tumblers in the hanging basket. Couple of the cordons are getting a bit leggy but otherwise all doing fine. Peppers also coming along nicely. Nearly time Read More …
Finally had these delivered. Should be different when they eventually fruit. They are a mixture of Candy Floss and White Surprise alpine/musk strawberries.
Managed a couple of hours in the afternoon on the plot. Fed the potato bins, assembled 3 cloche frames and applied weed killer onto the paths to try and stop the giant docks returning through the flagstones! Must say the Read More …
Due to other things going on didn’t get chance to include everything in the weekends posts. Here’s the finished pallet strawberry planter (although not in its final outdoors home yet) The Greengage under semi cover is doing even better than Read More …
Tried to catch up on a few garden related things today including finally getting the front window boxes and hanging baskets all planted up. Re-potted the Apricot tree, the two freebie apple trees I got, the Calamondin in the conservatory Read More …