We’ve not done an Allotment Diary post for quite a while – that’s not to say we’ve not been keeping busy. We’re bringing you what we got up to in April & May… all in one go! We cleared more overgrown areas in preparation for planting crops. Some lovely, young tomato plants donated to us […]
We succumbed to a bit of instant gratification prior to this week’s allotment visit – impatient waiting for all our seeds to sprout! 🙂 We pass Gordon Riggs garden centre on our way there, so we pulled in and picked up a few things. Some pretty French marigolds – a perfect companion plant for the […]
We arrived at our allotment this week after a 12-day gap. Everything was greener, there were more plants in flower. It was a lovely, sunny day. On closer inspection – devastation! Most of the seeds that we’d sown in toilet roll tubes had been dug up and their cardboard containers unceremoniously strewn about the place. […]
Last week on our allotment we returned to the important business of sowing more seeds. We had 3 different types of beetroot. We love it with parsnips, squash, garlic and rosemary in roasted vegetables. Remember those old, heavy Belfast sinks we salvaged from a far corner the previous week? Well, we stood them on some […]
