Lovely sunny morning at the allotment today. I sorted out the weeding while K planted the potatoes – which are the last of the ones we have.
I’m pleased to say the rhubarb is continuing to flourish:
And the autumn raspberries are starting to sprout for real:
The tulips continue to make a lovely display, and there are also more to come which is great:
Here is today’s harvest of tulips and a scattering of daffodils:
And here are the vases at home:
Have a blessed Palm Sunday, everyone.
There I am, putting on my suncream for a good healthy once-a-day walk to the allotment with my husband, and a quarter of the way there, it is sleeting!!! Great news for the first day of British summertime, hey ho. Anyway the walk there and back was invigorating – to say the least!
Once on the allotment, we are surprised by tulips, hurrah:
So lovely to see their beautiful colours. The rhubarb is also doing well:
And we have planted our first crop of the allotment year – shallots!
We made sure to put them in a side of the bed they’ve not been before, and also not to bury them too deeply as they do like having their tops showing (the picture shows them before planting however so they’re not that shallow, LOL!).
Whilst there I did a hoe round, though actually things weren’t too bad, and K mended another one of our raised beds, which was great.
Here is the harvest:
And here are the flowers at home:
Have a good Sunday, and stay safe, everyone.
I might have spoken too soon when I said last week that we had harvested the last of the daffodils as this is the scene that greeted us when we arrived at the allotment this morning:
What do we know?! Nothing, obviously! Anyway, it’s a lovely day so I thought I’d take a picture of the whole plot:
As you can see, it’s definitely a time for planning ahead … Here’s a closer view of the tulips which you can see on the right of the above picture – they’re coming along nicely:
The rhubarb is also enjoying the early sunshine and I’m quite hopeful about it this year:
Whilst at the allotment we chatted to a few people – at a safe distance of course! – and in general everyone is doing okay health-wise, which is good news. It was also lovely to get out and be active in a safe way without worrying about carrying anything nasty to anyone else.
Here is the harvest:
And hear are the daffodils in their vases at home:
Have a good week, everyone – and stay safe.
Really good weather today in spite of the storm we were forecast, so we made the most of it at the allotment by doing some weeding (me) and repairing some of the raised beds (Husband).
The walk across the field to the allotments is still like a marsh though! Thank goodness for Wellington boots – though of course the rhubarb is lapping up the rain. Definitely hoping for a better crop this year.
Meanwhile, the tulip shoots are growing and some of them are even in bud, well gosh. Have to admit that the ones in bud aren’t the ones we actually planted in November though!…
Anyway, here is a mini-harvest of daffodils:
And here they are in a vase at home:
Have a lovely start to March, everyone!
As you may remember, our sprouts this year (for the second year running) have been a total failure (sob!…), so much so that they just look like tired cabbages:
So we’ve finally admitted defeat and taken them out to see what we could salvage, if anything. In fact, once home, I have salvaged some decent looking greens and a selection of very tiny sprouts that look SO cute, LOL!! We could probably eat them raw – they are that small! Here they are on our kitchen draining board:
So it just goes to show that there’s always something you can make of disaster …
Anyway, in other news, the daffodils are going strong:
And there is a rather nice display of tulips on their way in a bed where we did NOT plant them – I blame the squirrels though it’s more likely to be my total inability to find all the bulbs when digging them up, to be honest!
Here is the harvest:
And here is the vase at home:
Have a great weekend, everyone!
Managed to fit in an allotment visit first thing this morning before Storm Dennis hits us later on. Goodness, but the field we need to cross to get to the allotments was the wettest I’ve ever known it – like a marsh! We do appear to have some shed damage in preparation for the storm already …
K has slotted it back in but I’m not sure how long that will last!
Anyway, the daffodils are doing well – even the ones I abandoned near the compost bins are in flower:
And the single daffodil in amongst the leeks is happy too:
Meanwhile the tulip shoots are growing, which is brilliant news:
And the rhubarb is looking good too:
So today we have our first real harvest of some of the leeks and the daffodils. The leeks smell amazing – so much stronger than the ones in the shop!
Here are the daffodils at home:
Stay safe this weekend, everyone!
We have our very first (and very small!) harvest for 2020 – one lone daffodil that’s growing in a bed that … um … doesn’t have any daffodils in it. Then again, what do we know? Nothing, obviously!
Meanwhile, the daffodils that are actually in the bed we allocated for them are on their way, hurrah!
We were chatting with a couple of our fellow allotmenteers as well (hello, Pauline & Helen!) and Helen mentioned how useful she finds the GrowVeg site as a way of planning out the allotment, getting crop rotation under control, and getting reminders as to when to plant and harvest crops etc etc – so we will definitely look into that as a bit of planning is always a good thing when growing veg and flowers etc. Thank you, Helen!
Whilst there, we noticed that the tulips are now on their way, which is great news – so we’ve removed the netting and sticks that were keeping the squirrels away – as once the tulip shoots are visible, the squirrels don’t bother with the bulbs any more:
The second of the two tulip pictures above shows them growing in another bed where they’re not supposed to be as well! So they must have taken a lesson from that lone daffodil, LOL!
Talking of which, here is said daffodil at home in the vase:
Have a lovely Sunday, everyone!
