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 [...]

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 [...]

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!!

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 [...]

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 [...]

As you know we’ve been a bit slap-dash/fair-weather/downright lazy so far this year!! But yesterday we had a good old weeding and digging session and cleared a large section of our thistles, couch grass and other weedy enemies! We’ve topped with black bags, weighed down with some of the pulled up weeds – with this and [...]