Posted in Flowers, Sowing and planting, The plot, tagged Flowers, Rhubarb, Tomatoes on 8 May 2008 | No Comments »
Still no proper internet access from home, but spring goes on and so does work at the plot. (I am fortunate enough to be able to use another computer occasionally.) As a result of not having chance to play around with the new WordPress photo uploader, some of these pics could be better placed: I will edit [...]
Posted in The plot, Welcome on 11 March 2008 | 1 Comment »
Just a couple of weeks after we reached 5000 hits, C&F is one year old today. Many thanks again to our readers everywhere.
By coincidence, today has seen the greatest number of visitors by miles since we began (158 and counting). My referrer stats suggest a reason for this: we are now available in translation-engine [...]
Posted in Courgettes, The plot on 2 March 2008 | No Comments »
Twenty months or so after we began to fill our compost bin with fruit and veg peelings (and an awful lot of coffee filter papers), we used our own compost for the first time.
Yes, I know it isn’t very well turned. Sorting out some of the larger pieces of debris and returning them to the [...]
Posted in Flowers, Harvesting, The plot, Vegetables, tagged Flowers, Vegetables on 11 February 2008 | 1 Comment »
Finding Osteospermums in flower in February must be unusual.
This monstrously unappetising radish would be unusual at any time of the year.
Clearing the beds (late again!) for spring planting, we found more vegetable surprises: a small handful of baby beetroot.
Emerging crocuses are what I’d expected to see, with a little luck (and less squirrel activity) this [...]
Posted in Artichokes, Flowers, Harvesting, The plot, Vegetables, tagged Artichokes, Flowers, herbs, potatoes on 26 January 2008 | 1 Comment »
This is the first week I’ve given the allotment any serious thought since the late autumn, sitting down to make a crop rotation plan and a list of tasks to accomplish before spring sets in (to follow in a later post).
Just as I was planning which potato varieties to order for this season (with suggestions [...]
Posted in The plot, tagged frost, herbs, sage on 19 December 2007 | No Comments »
Frosty site:
Posted in The plot, Vegetables on 21 November 2007 | No Comments »
This week’s soggy weather does not inspire trips to the allotment. But on a sunny, crisp and chilly afternoon last Friday there were patches of frost around the site and the water tanks were frozen.
The plot is even starting to look rather abandoned.
Only the rainbow chard is still really thriving (and those little fennels, recently [...]
Posted in Fennel, The plot, Vegetables, tagged fennel vegetables on 4 November 2007 | 3 Comments »
This rather daft, dreamy photo shows two small bulbs of fennel that seem to have planted themselves and avoided the fate of their parents, who went to seed some time ago: it’s thriving in the unexpectedly warm autumn weather.
The sunshine made the most of this autumnal scene at the allotment site.
Posted in The plot, tagged olives on 29 October 2007 | No Comments »
Our visits to the plot have become less frequent: there’s not much going on there now apart from the drying borlotti beans, the rainbow chard and the weeds, now dying back. There are still a few potatoes in the soil which we’ve given up hunting around for. So we escaped to Italy last week, where [...]
Posted in Courgettes, Harvesting, The plot, Vegetables on 30 September 2007 | No Comments »
The plot is looking more colourful as autumn approaches and the most eye-catching change since my last visit was the leveller bush (yet to produce any fruit, after two seasons), now a vivid red.
Here’s a more detailed view.
The borlotti beans, still growing, are producing just a handful of beautiful pink and green pods - quality [...]
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