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 [...]

…about the radishes! Nothing terribly exciting, we just sowed some

More weeding and clearing, but dug over a small section (ok, a very small section) enough to plant a very short row of Tom Thumb lettuce and an equally short row of Radish – French Breakfast 3. I know it’s rather late for lettuce, but thought it was worth a go. The radishes should be [...]

Our seeds and potatoes arrived… we ordered them through our allotment association from DT Brown (works out so much cheaper if you do this!). So we’ve got: Purple Moldovan Garlic (the bigger bulbs in the pic, the others are supermarket garlic which we’ll experiment with) Radish – Scarlet Globe (plus two half packs left over [...]

We harvested the rest of the radishes – a whole carrier-bag full! When we sowed the seeds for the radishes we used the entire two packets in three short rows… little did we realise that radishes pretty much have a 100% success rate! Note for next time: sow 2 or 3 seeds per inch. Despite [...]

Whilst thinning out the radishes (we’re very overdue on thinning out!) we found that actually many of the thinned radishes could count as a crop!! And very tasty they were too!

After so much heavy rain and many sunny spells there’s a lot of green on the allotment! Sadly the plants that are doing extremely well are the weeds, but many of our seeds are taking root too. The radishes are doing very well indeed – they desperately needed some thinning out, which Lisa persuaded Tony [...]

Second trip to the garden centre today to get more plants/ seeds and other essentials including cute white panels to make a picket fence around our herb garden! Every girl needs one! First part of our ‘allotment girl’ uniform also arrived – some rather fetching overalls that I am sure we will be modelling on [...]