Potatoes are away!

Hot on the heels of the garlic I planted in the week, I decided the best way to celebrate the Good Friday Bank Holiday was to plant all the potatoes for the year. We bought the seed potatoes after Christmas as a new year treat and they've been chitting away in the back bedroom for …

The Asparagus Lives!!!!

I noticed that the a couple of the asparagus plants were starting to grow new tips a few weekends ago so I panicked and thought I'd get on with weeding the bed before they really kicked off and topped them up with compost. Then the 2 spears that had been showing through died! I thought …

Garlic 2019

The first planting into the allotment of 2019 - the next generation of the Red Duke garlic we grew last year and have been watching grow on our balcony through the winter. I tried 3 methods of propagating this - bulb cloves, bulbils and trying to allow the flowers to set seed. None of the …