On The Allotment

A little tip that I have learned, rather than buying the commercial plant labels, simply cut them out of plastic food containers such as marg tubs or take-away containers. Here is a video to show you how.

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.

I could not do a piece to camera today as the neighbours on the allotment were here. I did however take a short catch up video after I packed up. I will be back at the allotment today to get some first early potatoes and anything else I can get done.

All the videos on this blog and on my On The Allotment YouTube channel are available in High Definition format. The ones that I embed into the blog post are the normal low resolution ones, but if you head over to my YouTube Channel, you will be able to click on the HD link below [...]

On Sunday I took a walk down to the allotment, with a wheel barrow full of veg peelings, a few funny looks from passers by, but hey! I wanted to get a bean trench prepared. I took a video of the preparation. How to prepare a bean trench Dig a small trench, 1 spit deep [...]

In addition to the last video post, I planted the Rhubarb that I dug up from one of our properties some time ago. It has been stuck in a couple of heavy duty bags for the last month or so and has begun to sprout, so time really was of the essence. I decided to [...]

I thought I would take the video camera down to the allotment and get some video of it as it is now. This is my first attempt at a video blog or vlog so probably not the best produced work, but it will give you an idea of what the plot looks like.