a weblog with an allotment attached
21 January 2007
Today we visited the allotment for the first time since October. We were a little anxious about how awful it might be when we got there, and certainly the recent winds had wreaked havoc with last year’s bean frame, but other than that there was much to gladden the heart.
All of our garlic is […]
Filed under: Hard labour, Harvest, Sowings — Clare @ 4:36 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
20 May 2006
As it is raining on and off here in an unpredictable and disappointing manner, I am going to treat myself and sow some seed. This is unusal for me. I am much better at buying seed than I am at getting around to actually using it. Just as I seem to believe […]
Filed under: Sowings — Clare @ 12:35 pm
11 May 2006
Having survived my Italian exam without sounding too much like an idiot (though it did feel like the longest 12 minutes of my life) I treated myself by hot-footing it down to the allotment and dragging my long-suffering assistant with me. Tonight’s project? The frame for the climbing beans.
I’d popped down earlier to […]
Filed under: Baby plants, Blue Peter corner, Italiano, Sowings, Today's Bible — Clare @ 9:27 pm
1 May 2006
In spite of having work to do today (Public holday? Sorry? What’s that?), I’ve been bitten by the gardening bug, having sowed my squash seeds yesterday as well as further sweetcorn and french beans (that’s them on the bottom shelf).
Consequently, today I’ve been a bad, bad girl and instead of getting on with all the […]
Filed under: Hard labour, Sowings, Today's Bible — Clare @ 5:58 pm
29 April 2006
What a lovely day!
We’ve not been down the allotment (saving that for tomorrow), but boy have we been busy in the garden. The lawn got its first mow (which got me singing The First Cut is the Deepest…) and everything else had a general tidy up. I’ve potted on my tomatoes so they are […]
Filed under: Hard labour, Sowings — Clare @ 7:55 pm
27 March 2006
Our trip to the plot in the rain on Saturday was successful in that we laid the first two sheets of large black plastic, covering about half of the rotovated ground. It has been slightly nerve-wracking since then as the weather has been pretty windy and we’ve both been worried that the sheets would […]
Filed under: Baby plants, Hard labour, Sowings — Clare @ 6:21 pm
6 February 2006
I have been working from home today and I have been uncharacteristically productive. Yes, I got loads of work done. Real work. The kind that pays the mortgage. But I’ve also achieved a lot around the house and even some plot-related tasks have been done. I’m that good.
I sowed some […]
Filed under: Hard labour, Sowings — Clare @ 5:26 pm