Generally our slugs seem to be behaving themselves, but I’m a bit concerned that they’re congregating around the compost… there a the ugly brown and orange ones squelching around the bottom and inside are diddy black ones and horrid medium-sized beige ones. The diddy black ones seem to get half-eaten by birds and/or frogs so [...]

Poor tomatoes… they’re looking rather weary after all this rain. They’re changing colour though! Albeit slowly. Have cut some branches (if they’re called branches?) and popped them in a bowl on the kitchen windowsill to see if that helps them ripen. The plants are weighed down with fruit, which we’ve tried to string up, but [...]

We got a very nice warning yesterday that if we don’t get our plot sorted we’d have to hand it back… in effect an eviction warning, but allotmenteers are so very polite We knew we’d been bad, so do pass on our apologies to fellow allotment owners – we already had a plan to get [...]

Dug up a pound of potatoes this evening… not to mention two slugs and a load of funny-looking brown bugs that were in a couple of them! Very tasty indeed – boiled them and mixed them up with some olive oil, black pepper and allotment thyme and sage It was only a short row, but [...]

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 [...]

After all the rain we finally got up to the allotment… luckily we didn’t have too many weeds to dig out. Wildlife spotted: Friendly blackbird A slug A big fat worm

Back up to the plot this morning, we bagged up the rubbish and dug a few more weeds out. We attacked the ants with Nippon powder, so hopefully they’ll move or die! Measuring up, the plot is in two sections: one is 5m x 5.8m, the other 5m x 3.75m (the previous owner still has [...]