Although we aspire to need and tidy rows of gorgeous looking veg, neatly trimmed herbs and abundant fruit bushes, we just haven’t got that!! So here are some of our perfectly cultivated weeds!! Groundsel (Senecio sylvaticus) is everywhere – we have some fine specimens, all grow naturally in rows straighter than anything we grow on [...]

We were told off today because our dandelions are getting out of hand – well, told off in an allotment it-has-been-mentioned would-you-kindly kind of a way! (Aren’t allotment manners are just fabulous?!) And rightly so. The bloody things are everywhere, loads of them, at every stage of growth – buds, flowers, seed-heads and blown away. [...]

Lisa spent a lot of the time on Saturday weeding the herb garden… We cut the sage, thyme and chives for a lovely bread and the mint for a tasty salsa and a delicious pudding – all of which we shared with The Gang on Saturday evening. Lisa is wearing the allotmentgirls t-shirt in pink from [...]

A trip to the allotment for weeding this evening… it needed it!! Tony and Jordan came up to help – we needed them too! We were delighted to find that beneath all the jungle of weeds our tomatoes were actually growing!! They’re little and green, but hopefully they’ll ripen nicely. Lisa’s mum has also given [...]

We’ve been rather neglectful of our plot over the last couple of weeks and we’ve been fair-weather gardeners while the heavy rain has been pouring down. Today was the day to tackle the triffids! We made a good start, but there are weeds everywhere… including some massive alliums growing out of our stinky bin bags!! [...]

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 [...]

Today we tried to tackle the weeds, in particular the bindweed… such pretty flowers, but a nightmare around our corn!! Any suggestions on getting rid of this will be much appreciated!! But it seems that hard graft and digging out the roots is the only way to go… Siobhan is wearing the Floral Raw Edge Top [...]