Yes this latest update is exactly that. But I'm not talking about my tardy blogging. No, I'm talking about this year's growing year. An...

What's the point? If you have any longish term experience of working with the land and the weather, you will get this feeling. Probably...

...till May be out - goes the old expression, meaning, (and you can take your pick here) don't think it's getting warm until either the...

Everything I've written about so far in this blog has concerned veg growing. There have been times though, in the past, when I've turned...

A month ago I was telling you how I couldn't do all the plot prep I wanted to do because the ground was frozen, or, when it did thaw out,...

OK, I have been quiet on this blog for a month, but that doesn't mean I have been neglecting the plot, far from it. Yes February did...

It's Saturday morning. You pull back the curtains to reveal a half-light of fog and frost everywhere. You know it's sub-zero outside. So...

Each year there is one meal that is a barometer for whether the allotment year was a good one, or a not so good one, and that meal is...

November and December are not the quiet months that you might think. For a start you have the switch from the tender vegetable harvest to...

We are in full harvest mode now. To add to the carrots and leeks that I have been pulling up for a few weeks now, the last two weeks have...

My first year growing sweet potatoes... This year I've had a real go at growing Sweet Potatoes. And, as usual, some things have worked...

I don't grow pumpkins. I don't really do Halloween. But at this time of year there are lots of pumpkin like alternatives ripe for harvest...

It may be me recalling things incorrectly, but it seems to have gone from late summer to autumn more quickly than usual this year. I seem...

Hello again. Yes I know my last post was in August and here we are nearly at the end of September. Well there's a couple of reasons for...

Next time I write an upbeat blogpost, somebody stop me. You should never get carried away and start thinking it's been a good year until...

There's so much going on this time of year that my weekly updates are becoming a little less weekly. Sorry about that. Let me tell you...

Cast your mind back to mid March and pre lockdown. We knew Coronavirus was about to impact the way we would all be living, but we didn't...

It's early July when, if you are winning most of your battles against the weather, the weeds and pests, you start to enjoy the simple...

This is a special year. Special because (for one year only), I'm allowed to use the garden as well as the allotment to grow my veg....

Let's start offering you some encouragement. Despite much of this blog being about the trials of growing your own, with a dash of...