Sunshine

There are beautiful blue skies and bright sunshine today. Still cool, but absolutely lovely. Made it up to the plot for about 930am this morning and did a couple of hours of pottering: weeded, levelled and added 3 barrowfuls of leafmould to bed #7 – the last of yesterday’s lovely delivery flattened the paths between […]

Hail and rainbows

I ended this week with a horrible migraine, feeling completely wiped out. Woke up this morning feeling stressed about not having done everything I planned to at work this week and worried about the general state of the world. Thought I was too knackered to go up to the allotment, but after a bit of […]

February 2020 vs February 2022

Seeds

I did a lovely big seed order a few weeks ago from The Real Seed Company. I love The Real Seed Company’s ethos (they use organic seeds and help you save your own, not that I ever actually do) and their seeds are good quality and reliable. Last weekend I had a mammoth seed-sowing session at […]

Plan for spring / summer 2020

This is the plan for 2020, assuming I get all the raised beds built by the time each bed needs to be planted…

Raised beds

After 10 years of meaning to do this, I’ve finally got around to making raised beds on the allotment. I’m making a virtue out of the fact that the allotment has been pretty much untouched since last spring, because last year work kind of took over in a way that was completely ridiculous, even by […]