Month: December 2008

Crop updates, winter maintenance Before today’s frost I managed to go to the allotment twice over the holidays. Not much to report, really, apart from a small act of vandalism in which someone went into the greenhouse to smoke and drink, displaced the vent and threw a few things around. Luckily they did not damage…

Crop updates, planting soft fruis. Yesterday was a great morning at the allotment! I had been there last week but the weather was not too good, so I barely enjoyed planting the raspberries in thick heavy mud that made work ten times as hard as it should, with florid weeds coming out at every spadeful.…

Crop updates On Saturday I went to the allotment again… as my work is getting busier and busier, and the weekdays are so full, I have almost forgotten what I did!!! But I remember having a very good time. I heard that I would not get my autumn onions after all, because the supplier made…

Crop updates, doubts on mushrooms, protecting winter crops Last weekend I had a quick go at planting some Meteor peas: I seem to be late again on the planting schedule. Last year I had a few free weekdays so I am now realising that having only weekends is making it very difficult to keep a…