A blaze of blossom. Blackthorn trees, growing on the boundary of Choice Allotments. This has to be my favourite time of year, when nature emerges from it’s winter dormancy and literally bursts into life. We’re rewarded with the most beautiful display of…
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Pear scab and rust!
I’ve been thrilled that we still have pears on the trees this year, and there’s quite a few of them. However, I have noticed something rather untoward, some black patches are forming on the fruit. This is not a good sign,…
Posted in Fruit, Growing problems
Raspberries!
Today we bought raspberry canes from the garden centre and I’m thrilled. They are currently on my middle balcony enjoying the seaview. We had two raspberry canes on plot one but sadly they died last year so it was time to…
Posted in Fruit, Raspberries
Pollination.
Cherry tree, in full blossom. The fruit trees have been in blossom for about three weeks and we’ve enjoyed a rather cheery blaze of pretty white flowers on the orchard plot. The pear tree has lost most of its petals now and we…
Posted in Fruit
Quince Tree
The quince tree has been planted! It looks rather magnificent. We are overjoyed. The plot is made up of heavy clay soil, so we dug lots of organic matter into a large hole to help the tree get established. We’re not…
Posted in Fruit
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
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
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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