Welcome To The Jungle (apologies to Guns’n’Roses) …

A wedding one weekend, then a virus laying me low the next weekend – so two weekends without a visit to the allotment. Big mistake. I now own a jungle. Waist high grass, check. Nettles, check. Around nine tons of bindweed, double check. The weeds have grown at a ridiculously alarming rate. I mean it […]

Bank Holiday allotmentering, part 2.

Day two. The good weather has disappeared, grey sky’s and light rain are the order of the day instead. In the autumn and winter I covered up large sections of the allotment with tarpaulins and weed control fabric. Everything I read said this would kill off all the weeds and made it a lot easier […]

Bank Holiday alotmenteering, part 1.

First day at the allotment this weekend was hot, sunny and exhausting, the second day was just as exhausting but much greyer. For the moment, here’s the update from day one. I went in with a lot of ideas and a whole list of jobs, all waaaaaaay over ambitious. Once I realised how much work […]

April on plot 48

Not much work on the allotment this weekend, mostly watering really, but there is some progress. To start with, the apple tree has gone from a few buds to full on blossom overload! Really hoping for a good crop of apples, it’s one of the crops I am most looking for from the plot. A […]

Meanwhile, down at the allotment…

Away from the seedlings growing in my undecorated bedroom, we have growth at the allotment. To start with we have rather a lot of raspberry plants and a healthy looking apple tree. Then we have a few daffodils and the beginning of some tulips. While the garlic and onions continue to thrive. All looking promising […]

Seedlings

So, after a fortnight or thereabouts the seeds were beginning to sprout. Another week later and they’re even further along. Not a lot in the way of herbs but a lot of lettuce, beetroot, spring onion and a few tomato plants – with a scattering of others. All looking good so far but probably not […]

Planting, sort of …

At the moment the weather is starting to improve here. We’re getting fairly tolerable daytime temperatures, although we are still getting a few frosty mornings. There are buds on the trees, a few small leaves and even, here and there, a little blossom. I’m not sure if Spring has yet sprung but it definitely seems […]