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Garlic – done differently!
Instead of just planting garlic in the ground, I tried a few different methods to get it growing and I’m delighted with the results. A couple of years ago, on the allotment, I planted out all my garlic and waited patiently. Sadly, all – and I mean ALL of it, rotted away in the cold…
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Day 3 of My Garden Challenge
This is a job I’d been putting off! Day 3 of the garden challenge was meant for a job I’d been putting off for a long time – the polytunnel. I knew it had taken a battering during storm Amy and I’ll be honest, I hadn’t opened the doors for some time. When I did…
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Operation: Pumpkin Rescue & Other Garden-Related Reporting
I had thought I’d escaped all damage from the latest storm. I was wrong of course! Before I went to the allotment the other day, I decided I had better rescue the big Atlantic Giant pumpkin from the back garden. It was in a large pot and rapidly trying to take over what little space…
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Garden Tour for the end of July 2025
I grow everywhere and in everything! I cut the grass yesterday and we took a car-boot full of rubbish to the dump so I’ve been feeling those productive vibes in the garden. The back isn’t 100% yet but it’s good enough that I can get stuff done now which I’m very happy about. Seed HQ…
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Getting the garden polytunnel ready for Winter
It’s that time of year already so let me show you what I managed to do. Regular readers will know I got the polytunnel for the garden very late into the season so I don’t count this as a ‘normal’ year for it. Having said that, things have been attempting to grow and there is…
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Autumnal skies on the plot
I also finally got the last of the garlic planted in the polytunnel. I am aware our clocks go back here in the UK, this weekend which is great for my sleep but not so great for my ability to get to the allotment during the week. As it is, we are racing the sunset…
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The Calm After the Storm
Storm Ashley came like an angry poltergeist, threw things around and was seemingly exorcised out of here. The noise of that wind last night was enough to make me go out, in my pyjamas, to check the polytunnel. I don’t know what time it was but it was wild. Of course Scooby came out with…
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The unexpected
I wasn’t sure what to expect today but I had plans for lots of things to get done – but they didn’t. Before I even got out of bed, I felt the ‘ping’ in my left shoulder, around the shoulder blade and up towards the neck. I know what that means: Don’t expect to be…
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Attempting to heat a polytunnel + an Autumn garden
I was thinking the plants in the polytunnel might be getting a bit cold since the daily temperatures have plummeted around here. I know people often use fancy greenhouse heaters but I don’t have one and I didn’t want to risk anything that would burn it down so soon after I actually got it put…
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Polytunnel replacement!
In my last post I explained how I had finally decided to replace my diy polytunnel with a bought one. Before I show you how the job went over the weekend, I would like to point out that while the rest of the country was basking in sunshine, we were once again, stuck under a…
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When something just isn’t working…
I tried, I really tried but it wasn’t working for me and so it has to go. The decision has been made. What am I talking about? The DIY polytunnel I made earlier in the year – it’s time to say bye bye. I wanted to see if I could make a polytunnel out of…
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A little disheartened
I’ve done my best with the back garden this year but I can’t help feeling a little disheartened with it. I tried my best to make a polytunnel out of scrap, but the latest strong rain and winds have really battered it. Inside, it just looks a mess and isn’t what I was hoping for.…
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