27 September 2024
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This photo shows our tomato harvest from earlier this week. Still plenty more to come but it is a colourful reminder that we’re in business. It does feel late in the year but I need to press on with my … Continue reading
19 August 2024
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The soft fruit at the allotment is starting to take off. Today I got a tub of raspberries and almost a full tub of blackberries. The latter are quite firm and will still be good tomorrow but the raspberries don’t … Continue reading
11 August 2024
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Sweetcorn for lunch earlier today from the patch at the end of our garden. I can’t remember when we last tried growing it but I think we had fairly limited success. We’re doing a bit better this time round – … Continue reading
6 August 2024
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Beetroot and French Beans were the main things I brought back from yesterday’s session at the allotment although the picture also includes some leaves from a tree spinach (Chenopodium giganteum) plant and a handful of raspberries and blackberries (not pictured). … Continue reading
19 July 2024
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I was excited today to make my first harvest of broccoli from the allotment. It is the Calabrese type, which is meant to form a dense head but a couple of the plants had decent heads of spears and I … Continue reading
23 April 2024
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My polytunnel is getting quite full of seedlings (all sorts) and plants that are in the beds on either side but will come into their own later in the year. However, it has also started to bear edible fruit. For … Continue reading
20 November 2023
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I should have remembered that the final tomato harvest tends not to last too long. I spotted that one or two were developing furry mould so quick action was needed – ditching the affected ones, washing the rest and getting … Continue reading
28 September 2023
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This is a good chunk of this year’s harvest from our apple tree (which I’ve tentatively identified as the ‘wealthy’ variety). It is not as abundant as previous years but, given that apples often seem to have alternately good and … Continue reading
31 August 2023
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I took this photo a couple of weeks ago but there’s just time to get it posted in August: You can’t really tell in this photo but some of the flowers seem to glow as dusk turns into night, particularly … Continue reading
17 March 2023
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Here is today’s harvest from the allotment: They aren’t very big and I probably should have been more attentive to thinning and weeding but they also haven’t take a lot of work and give another helping of fresh veg grown … Continue reading