Mar 31
What a month! Never know a March so warm and dry, hardly any rain what so ever.The day time temperature has been in the middle to high teens most days (a lot higher in the sunshine), although we had some cold nights, this lead to some wild max-min temperatures in the cold greenhouse. The settled [...]
If you are just starting out on the adventure that’s allotment gardening, or have a busy work/family schedule but still want the pleasure of growing your own vegetables, the next two months can seem hectic. Soil to prepare, seeds to sow and then comes the pricking out to do. A neat short cut to all [...]
Either through the cold weather, rain soaked ground or just lack of enthusiasm, the first two months of the year are usually none events with regards to gardening in my neck of the woods. On the odd fine days, essential maintenance on the compost bins got finished, the chicken hut got a thorough cleaning, in [...]
1 Early Digging If you intend to sow or plant in spring, the time to start digging is late Autumn or early winter, when the soil is not overly wet and sticky. Choose a spade that is the right size for your height and strength. Insert the spade blade vertically in to the soil, not [...]
Nov 5
Although the days are shorter and colder, and working in the vegetable garden may have lost some of the appeal that it had in summer, any work carried out on the veg plot in November will save twice as much when spring arrives. Vegetable Garden Weeds will continue to slowly grow for most of the [...]
Oct 3
Harvest or protect crops that may be susceptible to frost. Clear away any remaining summer crop debris and place on the compost heap, the larger the quantity, the better as this helps the heap to warm up and accelerate the rotting process. Vegetable Garden Start winter digging on clay soils before it becomes too wet [...]
If you have ever wondered what actually makes garden waste in to usable compost, this video will go some way to explain it.
Vegetable growth slows down quite markedly this month as the nights draw in and get colder, but there’s still lots of jobs that need to be taken care of on the allotment. As the summer harvests come to an end and crops are harvested for storage through the winter, this creates a large amount of [...]
