Tales From Our First Allotment
... well not quite yet, but our one surviving pumpkin is ready! It's beautiful and orange, cured for 3 days in the sun and it's ready to go. It's been a long game watching it grow and mature as most of its brothers and sisters have yellowed and dropped off the plant but this one …
Now you see it... Now you don't... It's turned into a beautifully warm September day so I decided to cut out all the blackberry canes that held fruit this year so the plants are ready to hibernate over winter with just the new canes that have sprouted up this year. Now it's done though there …
I can't wait any more because we physically can't fit anything else into our freezer - it's time to make jam with all the stockpiled blackberries! I picked another 3 tubs today and then got a shock when I started pulling tubs out of the freezer..... and found 16 more of them! No wonder there …
The first bed edges have gone in! A year after deciding we were going to pretty much stick with the existing location of the beds and edge them so that we can build up a good layer enriched with manure, the first edging has gone into place!!! After begging and borrowing pallets and scavenging wood …
As I may have said before, I'm very excited about having tomatoes this year that are actually going red! I'm also very excited that we seem to be getting a good crop both in the greenhouse and outside in the beds (there are quite a few outside because I couldn't bring myself to kill the …
Taking shelter in the greenhouse during a sudden downpour. There's not much room in here but it's been a great thin to get me focused on tidying up the tomatoes and aubergines. I'm still regularly having to pinch out sideshoots and I keep finding mammoth ones on the tomatoes that I can't believe I missed... …
Harvested my first ever aubergine and was so excited I turned it straight into lunch! Aubergine Parmagiano Recipe: Ingredients: Aubergine Chopped tomatoes Spring onion Moazarella Oregano Salt Olive Oil Method: Slice the aubergine in half lengthways Cut into the flesh-side of the aubergine in a cross-hatch pattern, drizzle with oil and sprinkle with a …
The tomatoes are starting to turn red And the aubergines are getting bigger every day
I've been watching the Red Duke garlic grow since we picked it up free in at the walled garden in Helmsley. It's not something I've ever tried to grow before (and I've never grown onions which I think are similar) so it's been interesting to watch. The first weird thing that happened was that after …
I started off the aubergines so late last year (naively thinking that, even though the packet said sow in March, July would be fine!) that the plants only got to about 8cm tall before autumn. This year, given the heated propagator we got for Christmas I decided I'd really go for them as they're one …
Bean Allotmenting 