Typically we plant garlic around mid October, but the weather has been unseasonably warm this year. Garlic needs a good spell of cold weather to promote germination, but with temperatures roughly 4 degrees celsius above the average for this time of year, there’s…
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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.…
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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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