So, we've got the two beds full of potatoes this year.... But then this is the two beds that should be full of beans and peas.... I know I should pull up the rogue potatoes but somehow I can't bring myself to! Also, I've tried especially hard this year to get the cucumbers off to …
It’s that time of year again
The greenhouse is back up! From a pile of (slightly rusty) poles and a plastic sheet to my wonderful (slightly holey) greenhouse again! And just in time to hide in it from a heavy rainstorm! This year it definitely definitely will be the last year for this as our proper greenhouse. Tom wants to do …
Reduce, reuse, recycle
Last year I experimented with growing some of my beans from seeds in old toilet roll tubes. It worked well and I just planted the young plants straight in the ground still in their tubes. Not only did the plants do well but the tubes also composted down into the beds and now there's nothing …
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 …
Allotment in an envelope
All the seeds for the year are finally here! It's really fun looking and sorting through them and imagining the year ahead, thinking of spring and summer.
Welcoming in 2019
We thought we'd kick off the new year with another long term planting on the allotment on new year's day. Just before heading home from my parents', with the help of my dad I pilfered a filbert tree from their front garden (where they seem to pop up like weeds!). I snuck it into the …
December
It's December and nothing much is going on at the allotment. We're missing going down there and it feels weird after spending so much time there in the summer. On my last trip down though, the cold frame had been blown open in the winds and I just wanted to share what can happen in …
Veg in central Stockholm
On a whistle-stop weekend in Stockholm, we've been visiting as many museums as we can possibly squeeze in while in this beautiful city and putting in a lot of walking miles as everything is so close together. Unexpectedly in a major capital city, on the way we noticed a lot of ideas to take back …
Bean Allotmenting 