Spring has sprung, the grass is high, and I’m just pausing for breath before the next manic session of seed-sowing (tender veg this month). So while I’ve got a cup of tea to hand and my feet up on the potting bench I thought I’d take stock a little and see how all those many, [...]
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Posted in Allotments, Greenhouse growing, Other stuff, Soil care, sowing, tagged beans, blackcurrants, carrots, cooking, forcing, green manure, potatoes, seed, slugs, sowing, strawberries, time management, weather on April 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Southern exposure
Posted in Allotments, Soil care, tagged frost, pests, weather, weeds, winter on January 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
If you’re going to have this much freezing weather, you might as well make the most of it. So I’ve been turning it to my advantage this week with a shivery sort of visit up to the allotment to recruit the sub-zero temperatures onto my side in the on-going battle against pests. In carefully covering up [...]
The green shoots of recovery
Posted in Allotments, Soil care, sowing, tagged baby leaf salads, green manure, onions, seed, sowing, sweet peas, weather, winter on November 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Life may be damp and increasingly chilly, and I know we’re looking down the wrong end of the dank, dark tunnel that is winter. But poking their brave little heads above ground all over the allotment are the signs of new growth. Just enough to keep me going up there whatever the weather: little flags [...]
The rake’s progress
Posted in Soil care, tagged compost, leafmould, manure, soil, soil conditioners, weather on November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My garden is turning yellow. And orange. And red. A few gales and a spot of rain is all it’s taken to send millions of leaves cascading like confetti to cover every surface in sight. It brings out the kid in me: all I want to do is kick them up in the air and [...]
It’s a cover-up
Posted in Allotments, Soil care, tagged beans, green manure, manure, onions, peas, time management, weeds, winter on September 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
There are big patches of bare soil turning up all over my allotment. The onions are gone, dried and golden and sitting in big boxes in my kitchen waiting to be plaited up into strings; the peas have gone over and have started to succumb to mildew, so they’ll probably be next; and I’m three-quarters of [...]
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