With BBQ season already started we thought we would try making some dips with things we are growing on the allotment. We’ve had to use market bought tomatoes here as ours are not quite ready yet. Dips from top left are: Spicy Tomato Salsa made with tomatoes, onion, garlic, tomato paste and cajun seasoning. Avocado [...]

Lazyitis has been the biggest feature of this blog, that and digging up weeds! Here’s hoping that 2011 will be known for lots of plot action and plentiful harvests! Today was such a beautiful day – chilly, but the sun was shining, birds were tweeting and no wind at all… perfect for digging and actually [...]

The weather wasn’t so kind today, but we managed to dodge the rain to get two rows of potatoes in (King Edwards) and a lot more weeding done. We also harvested three sticks of rhubarb and a test onion! Oh, and some sage… it is going mad so need to find a good way to [...]

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 [...]

Big bag of onions were delivered by the postie today – we’ve got ‘Picasso’ shallots and ‘Sturon’ and ‘Golden Gourmet’ onions. The ‘Sturon’ we’ve grown before and we liked those a lot, so have high hopes for them. We’ve never grown ‘Picasso’ or any other shallots, so interested to see how they’ll turn out. And [...]

Had a voucher for Thompson & Morgan, so this morning placed an order for Garlic, Onions (Sturon & some free Corrado), Shallots (Picasso) and Raspberry Canes (Glen Ample). We had Sturon last year and they were great, as for everything else, I’m ordering ‘blind’ – they sounded good, but I have no experience of them [...]

Yesterday Lisa picked: 7 sweetcorn – though some were not quite ready, so we need to make sure the ends are really brown and manky before we pick! 6 onions, including the red one! Several beans – yum! We like these raw, often they don’t make it into the pan. One little courgette – unfortunately [...]