a weblog with an allotment attached
24 October 2007
Crop rotation is an easy idea to get your head around - in order to make the best use of what nutrients are in your soil and to avoid the build up of disease, move around what you grow where year on year. There are lots of possible crop rotation systems - 3-year, 4-year […]
Filed under: Review & plan, Today's Bible — Clare @ 6:07 pm
5 February 2007
Yesterday’s jolly down the plot saw us start to make use of the previously prepared root bed. It would be a real breakthrough for me to achieve at least some success in this area of vegetables as I’ve never tried to grow carrots or parsnips before. We eat loads of them here - […]
Filed under: Sowings, Today's Bible — Clare @ 3:13 pm
29 September 2006
Spiders are not the only beasties thriving on the summer we’ve had. The slugs are back covering everything with slimy goo. Or Gooey slime. Whichever - it’s everywhere (even on the living room carpet! What the…?).
I think I have already mentioned the utter joy I experienced when I found slug pellets […]
Filed under: Today's Bible, Wildlife — Clare @ 8:09 pm
24 September 2006
You probably thought I was joking about the chocolate courgette loaf, didn’t you? Well, I wasn’t. I’ll admit that I had my doubts as it does seem a pretty disgusting combination, but I went ahead and made it anyway to feed to my friends and parents without having tried it myself first. […]
Filed under: Recipes - Non-soup, Today's Bible — Clare @ 1:29 pm
21 September 2006
(which has nothing whatsoever to do with suspenders)
You have probably noticed a distinct lack of allotment-related posts here recently. There is a very good reason for this. Our visits to the plot are pretty same-y at the moment:
Visit allotment and roll our eyes at the overgrown weeds
Harvest excessive amounts of courgettes, french beans, […]
Filed under: Harvest, Today's Bible — Clare @ 10:41 am
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
5 February 2006
Good germination news - Purple Calabash are poking their heads through…
I have put my potatoes in trays for chitting. This year the selection I bought includes Valor, Robinta, Colleen, Orla and Milva, all of which we grew last year and had very good results with. Mind you, I also ordered extra and we […]
Filed under: Hard labour, Sowings, Today's Bible — Clare @ 3:44 pm