A sunny, peaceful afternoon on the allotment

A lovely, sunny and peaceful afternoon on the allotment, getting ready for spring

Dig vs no-dig soil: a comparison in 2 pictures

A comparison of 2 images that show how and why no-dig works

Leafmould joy, a new growhouse and a new diagnosis

Leafmould joy We get fresh manure, woodchips and very occasionally leaf mould delivered to our allotment site. You have to be luck to be there when there’s still some left – especially during Covid where deliveries have been much less frequent than before. Today was a lucky day – there was a huge pile of […]

January cold blue sky

It was one of those lovely winter afternoons – a weak warm sun low in the blue sky, casting a beautiful golden light over everything. I took a walk to the allotment, listening to lovely acoustic guitar music on my headphones and occasionally stopping to drink in the big blue sky and feel the warmth […]

Sowing seeds

I love this time of year for the lengthening days, the way everything starts quietly and in tiny ways coming to life and the hope and optimism that is involved in sowing seeds. I get most of my seeds from The Real Seed Company, because I love their general ethos, they have a good range […]

12 beds done!

There are 12 beds! They’re not completely finished, and there is a lot of digging to do, but the basic structures are there so we’ve definitely broken the back of what turned out to be a bit of a major undertaking… We had a long day of it today, in mild but grey weather and […]

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

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 […]