Today was a perfect Spring day… warm sunshine, birds tweeting and much happiness from allotmenteers! Peering beneath the groundsheets we found the Rhubarb has survived and is looking rather healthy… with a bit of luck we’ll be over-run with it – we love it!  Perhaps we shouldn’t mention that, it’ll be our summer equivalent of [...]

It does seem like all we do on our visits to the plot is dig… but we’re making really good progress and we can see proper soil!! Today we almost cleared the area where Marjory used to live, levelling out and digging out the blasted dandelions… New canes for the raspberries has tidied up that [...]

No, not us! Spring is definitely here with green shoots sprouting up all over the place – thankfully they’re not all weeds… The rhubarb is coming up really well and the raspberry canes are going mad, so we’ll be ok for puddings this year! Tonight we completed the weeding around all the crops, so it [...]

A good old digging and weeding session this morning… the rain held off for us and there was a slight glimmer of sunshine for about two seconds! Siobhan cleared the weeds around the raspberry canes, which we can see new growth on (can’t wait for some fresh raspberry cocktails this summer!), while Lisa rather haphazardly [...]

What started out as a chilly morning ended up with lovely warm sunshine We got a row of onions in (Sturon) – fingers crossed these will be ok as we have no idea what we’re doing when it comes to onions! The last time we had them they were already planted when we got the [...]

What a beautiful day today… you guessed it – more digging!! We’re almost there, honest! We put in another row of King Edwards and we’re already looking forward to the roast potatoes!! So there’s two rows of King Edwards now and we still have some left… in two minds as to whether we add a [...]

At last, a dry and mild day… got lots of digging done this morning, giving us plenty of space for shallots and garlic. Or raspberries? Can’t decide!

Just about dug over the plot (apart from the herb bit)… wouldn’t mind some frosty mornings to kill off bugs and roots we missed!! Still haven’t got the garlic in, but plenty of time… also time to plan properly for next year after this year’s laziness!