Monthly Archives: September 2010

Remembered to take the strimmer with me today. The grass hasn’t been cut for a while and is getting quite long. The shovel’s in the car along with the blue plastic sheet, gloves and wellies as tomorrow is manure day!! … Continue reading →

What a breezy day today! Spent the time weeding, and was thinking about what I could write about. Just weeding wasn’t very interesting, but then I met another plot holder Ruth, she’s been on the site for over 30 years … Continue reading →

It’s that time of year when all the hard work starts again. Time to dig each bed as it gets cleared of veg, weed and manure. I dug up the last of the potatoes today, picked my one and only … Continue reading →

Had a great morning harvesting on the allotment. I pulled up all the kohl rabi, I’ll cut them in 1 inch cubes and freeze and take out when needed. Picked all the rest of the tomatoes, so more to go … Continue reading →

What a wonderful sunny day. Popped to the allotment this morning, and wasn’t surprised to find blight on some of the tomatoes. I spend most of the morning pulling up the tomatoes and taking off the uninfected fruit. Blight likes … Continue reading →

Didn’t go to the allotment until the afternoon because of the weather, but once I got there I had loads of fun. I’m in the process of digging all the potatoes up. This could take a while as I think … Continue reading →

Went up to the allotment today, wasn’t sure if the rain would hold, but it did all day and we’ve not had a drop of rain. It did get very grey and there were 2 rather large rumbles of thunder … Continue reading →

Kids went back to school today. Yipee!! So I was straight down the allotment to have some fun. I pulled up all my onions and all the orange carrots. The rainbow and purple carrots are still in the ground. Some … Continue reading →