The raspberries are looking great this year, lots of blossom starting to turn to fruit – we’re so excited because raspberries are definitely our favourite fruit. One thing we’re a little concerned about is the number of runners… they are everywhere, but we’re not sure whether to keep them (we have plenty of space) or [...]

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 [...]

Yes, we’re lazy, we know it! But today we went up to the plot to clear LOADS of weeds… We had breakfast – lots of raspberries, straight from the canes – delicious! Shop-bought berries really pale in comparison. Potatoes are looking healthy, plenty of time to go before we dig them up though. And we [...]

We had a great time on the allotment today, basking in the sunshine! Of course we still had our wellies on Lots of weeding to be done, the dreaded dandelions are in full irritation mode. Raspberries are looking great, buds on all of them and the herbs are going mad – woohoo!!

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 [...]

A bit behind in blogging, so here’s an update from our Sunny Sunday session! Garlic is fab – the entire row has sprouted So glad we properly weeded that section as the leaves look a lot like grass! It’s not grass, honest! Raspberries are doing well too – leaves are looking really healthy so far [...]