On The Allotment

We have just finished bacon butties (our Sunday morning treat) and since Eva has just said she would like to go to the allotment again and and as we had such a great morning at the allotment yesterday and since mummy missed how Eva enjoyed the allotment we are planning to go down to the [...]

We have had a good day down on the allotment, glorious sunshine, both Eva and I were out in t-shirts and sunhats. Eva loved every minute of it. We were up at normal time and had finished breakfast by 8am, mummy was at work so we sat down to watch some cbeebies and a coffee, [...]

I lifted the first potatoes today, I dug up one plant just to see what stage they were at. This was the first row of the first earlies planted, they are Duke of York. As you will see I got a nice little crop from it, although there were many more little potatoes starting to [...]

Its bank holiday Sunday and everything on the allotment is blooming. It is a glorious day, blue sky and the world could not be better! Have a look at my quick video of the progress

This weekend I got in two rows of the first early seed potatoes. I have gone for Duke of York, never grown these before so we will see what happens and what they are like. I did not get chance to chit the potatoes, however based on the reading I have done, there is some [...]

I took an update video to show the progress on the allotment on Sunday. Not that there is a great deal to see, but you will be able to see what I have been working on.

Probably over done it on the potatoes, but hey!!! I know some people who may take some.

I went to Homebase last night and bought a whole raft of seeds. I did not really know what I was looking for in terms of the best varieties, but I went for ones that I liked the look of, and also some that will enable me to plant several staged crops. Here are what I [...]