There’s lots going on at this time of year and we have been kept rather busy this week. We have continued to prepare vegetable beds, this time on plot 2. We have planted some seed potatoes and some shallot and onion…
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Strawberries
Last year’s unexpected heatwave led to an unusually early crop of some of the best quality and largest harvests of strawberries enjoyed in the past 20 years. We picked fragrant, deliciously sweet strawberries from May all the way through to September.…
Posted in Fruit, Strawberries
Flower borders
We think it’s really important to have a border of flowers to attract butterflies, bee and other pollinating insects. Here are some of the plants we have in our flower borders. Rozanne – Geranium The geranium ‘Rozanne’ was announced…
Posted in Allotment Journal, Flowers
April – What we’re sowing
April is one of the busiest months of the sowing calendar; it’s a seed sowing frenzy! With the soil warming up, it’s possible to direct sow, but given previous experience I sow a lot of seeds at home. This speeds up germination…
Posted in Sowing and Growing, Uncategorized
Making way for a Quince tree
The orchard plot has five established dwarf root stock fruit trees, one of which is rather unpromising. The one above, a small cherry tree, that did absolutely nothing last year. After a recent visit to the local garden centre we stumbled…
Posted in Allotment Journal, Fruit
Rust!
Not only does the seaside’s salty sea air cause metal to erode…but the garlic is also rusting! The winter months were extremely wet, and relatively mild, and it’s been unseasonably warm over the past week. With the addition of low levels of…
Posted in Allotment Journal, Garlic
Blossom!
The fruit trees are in full blossom. Bees are visiting. Not saying a word, just keeping everything crossed!!!!
Posted in Pruning
Allotment Journal: Orchard Plot update.
This has been a rather busy week; I have neglected the orchard plot for quite a while, so it was time to roll up the sleeves and get busy. Urgently required, vegetable beds so the seed potatoes and, shallot and onion…
Posted in Allotment Journal
Growing Garlic
Garlic can be planted in either the autumn or the spring. It will be clearly labelled when it’s purchased. I have always found it best to plant garlic in October/November, as garlic requires a long growing season and coldness…
Posted in Garlic
Choice Allotments, St Leonards on Sea
Burgess Buttercup squash
Pear from the communal tree.
The last bunch of sweet peas, 2013
Victoria plums
Globe Artichoke. Plot one
Globe Artichoke, leaves emerging spring 2014
Cabbage… before they were eaten by snails and slugs
There are plenty of ladybirds around this spring
Sweet pea
Garlic scapes
Eschscholzia californica
Discovery Apple blosson
Chives
Cabbage white catepillars
Slug caught munching on a squash flower
Dandelion
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