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Record breaking weekly harvest
We do a harvest for friends and family on Tuesday and today was the best yet, so it seemed a good opportunity to show what’s growing in mid autumn. In order to always have plenty for ourselves in the...
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October Allotment Tour (Debbie’s Plot)
While my plot is almost fully replanted for Autumn and Winter now, Debbie’s plot is still in a state of transition with quite a lot plants still hanging on. The New Zealand Spinach, a firm favourite,...
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The big picture of our Allotment life and how everything fits together
In this video I explain why I started an Allotment, what it means to me and how the three plots work together as a little Allotment empire. In brief, I retired a couple of years ago due to ill health...
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Finding Jobs To Do On A Perfect October Day
There’s not much to do on the plot now, it basically pottering and harvest time. On a perfect sunny, windless day though there’s no place I’d rather be, so I try and invent a few jobs to do and find...
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Record Breaking Allotment Harvest & Prep
I’m not very well today so I’m indulging myself and making a video of today’s harvest and how I prepared it for delivery. This video is for enthusiastic followers only. It does mark my biggest harvest...
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November Allotment Tour (Steve’s Plot)
Things are starting to quiet down on the plot now, all the beds are planted and productive, or dormant until spring, so there’s not much to do but pull up the odd weed and harvest. Well that’s not...
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Typical November Allotment Harvest Day
Every Tuesday we do a harvest for friends and family, it’s a pretty big job, and the highlight of my allotment week. Last weeks video showed me processing (cleaning and packing) a typical weeks...
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November Allotment Tour (Debbie’s Plot)
This month’s tour is very simillar to the last, as there’s not much changing in November on Debbie’s allotment. The beans, New Zealand Spinach and Oca are dying back after the frost; the Lambs...
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How I Compost Leaves
*** Edited to include a link to the correct video! Almost everyone else that I know puts their leaves in a big wire cage and then forgets about them for a few years. I don’t have the time or space for...
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November Kitchen Garden Tour
Today’s video is a quick tour of the kitchen garden and there’s not much going on, so I also check in on the store room. We mainly use the kitchen garden for berries, but we also have a few raised...
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The Overhaul Of Jennie’s Plot is Finished (nearly)
Today is a milestone for us as we finally finish the overhaul of Jennie’s plot. Our objectives were to: get the weeds under control in the orchard area, get rid of the grass paths, widen the paths and...
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December Allotment Tour (Steve’s Plot)
This is the first tour of winter and almost everything continues to grow well, somethings too well. The green salaonvas are suffering a bit, but the miner’s lettuce is growing faster than we can eat...
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Preparing for winter on Steve’s Allotment by insulating the cold-frames
Most of my cold-frames are only protected by a single layer of polythene. This is great for protecting from, wind, snow, hail and heavy rain (light rain is welcome) but it’s not a great insulator....
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Harvesting the oca on Debbie’s Allotment
We planted five oca (New Zealand Yam) tubers this year, our first attempt at growing them. Only four of them survived and only three thrived. They didn’t grow much in spring, but put on a lot of...
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What To Do When The Ground’s Frozen
It’s a wonderful frosty day on the allotment and I’m struggling to find things to do. Ideally I’d be out hiking, but I have a stress fracture in my foot so I’m taking things easy. The allotment...
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What Lived – And What Died – On The Allotment During The Deep Freeze
This year I planted most of my tender veg in cold-frames and hoop tunnels, but I left some outside so I could compare how well they coped with the winter weather. Up until the first really hard frost...
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December Tour of Debbie’s Allotment Plot
In this video I take you on a tour of Debbie’s plot. This month she’s planted two minarette trees, cleared the Bolotti beans and harvested the Oca, but apart from that the focus has really just been...
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December Tour Of Jennie’s Allotment
This is a quick tour of Jennie’s plot in December. The work on the landscaping is essentially complete now and we’ve planted the new trees – Braeburn, Pear and Plum. All of the alliums are up, as are...
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Harvest Highlights From Our Allotments In 2017
Here’s a quick video review of some of our allotment harvest highlights for 2017. The allotments have proven to be incredibly life enriching, allowing us to work outdoors, be part of a lovely...
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Review Of Our Allotment Year 2017
Here’s a quick video review of our allotment year, and in summary it’s been fantastic, although it’s had it’s difficult moments. The allotments have proven to be incredibly life enriching, allowing us...
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