a weblog with an allotment attached
10 January 2007
While I was at work today, my wonderful gardening assistant took delivery of a parcel for me. He was a bit confused as the box claimed to contain an oval casserole dish and he was pretty sure that I had not ordered one. How right he was.
What Owen had failed to consider was […]
Filed under: Review & plan — Clare @ 8:46 pm
9 January 2007
Anyone who knows me will tell you that I am a very busy person - they would be right. Take one look at our new calendar and you will see that we have no free weekends until April. April! Ask that same person and they will also tell you that I am […]
Filed under: Review & plan — Clare @ 6:14 pm
5 October 2006
It has done nothing but chuck it down today, so my plan to spend an hour down the allotment this afternoon has had to be shelved. We are, at times, committed and hardcore enough to work in the rain, but not today. It’s too miserable and cold. The kind of weather that […]
Filed under: Review & plan — Clare @ 5:48 pm
23 September 2006
Garlic has been this year’s surprise vegetable-of-amazement. I chucked some in the ground last year to fill up some space and didn’t really think any more about it. We do like garlic a lot in this house, but when it was ready to pull and we started to roast it in the oven […]
Filed under: Review & plan, Sowings — Clare @ 3:36 pm
22 September 2006
It has been suggested by Mr Dirty Burro that it would be good to see how the P’Soup patch is looking at the moment. It’s true that I have been avoiding posting any pictures of the plot because I am just a little ashamed of how weedy and messy it looks. But I […]
Filed under: Review & plan — Clare @ 9:09 am
14 August 2006
After hours of regular and dedicated graft (doesn’t sound like us, does it?) the plot is finally starting to look as though someone cares for it instead of the tatty, abandoned face it presented to the world when we got back from our holiday. I won’t pretend that the bindweed is not still […]
Filed under: Hard labour, Review & plan — Clare @ 7:51 pm
4 July 2006
Having pretty much finished the last of my broad beans, I am now ready to share my disappointment in them. It seems like sacrilege after the sweat and toil involved in the journey from seed to plate to say this, but say it I will.
Last year my broad beans were a product of an […]
Filed under: Harvest, Review & plan — Clare @ 7:15 pm
26 May 2006
Everything is ready for the team allotment event this weekend.
What team allotment event?
You know, the one where I invite a shed load of friends over to come and work a day down on our plot, building frames for raised beds, levelling paths, laying black plastic, weeding and generally being bossed about with nothing in return […]
Filed under: Review & plan — Clare @ 6:30 pm