Whenever I see a bed of tumbling nasturtiums it always makes me think of the beautiful hobbit gardens in the Lord of the Rings films – is that just me? There are countless varieties of nasturtium from deep reds, through tangerine oranges, to soft yellows. At some point I want to grow all of them! […]
It’s National Allotment Week, so what better time to update on progress on our little plot? The last few months have rushed by it seems, and already I’m writing another seasonal allotment update! Having said that, I’ve just had a read through the update I shared back in May to remind myself where we were […]
The courgette glut has been coming thick and fast for the past few weeks and we’ve been harvesting more than we really know what to do with from our four courgette plants. They’ve been huge too – more like marrows. Courgettes are one of our allotment staples as they don’t require too much intervention to […]
Growing our own potatoes has been another first for us this year. We started early in the season “chitting” our seed potatoes on windowsills in our flat until they were growing little knobbly bits and ready to plant out at the first opportunity. We waited with bated breath as I worried that perhaps I’d jumped […]
When you live in London, having any outdoor space at all is nothing to be sniffed at, and so I preface this post with absolute appreciation of the garden that we’re lucky to have. Let’s be honest though, as gardens go it’s pretty small, there’s not a lot of growing space without digging up the […]
This has been our first year growing a lot of things, including broad beans. The fact that they are hardy plants that can be sown directly in the ground fairly early in the year while the weather is still cold makes them an attractive allotment staple now for us. They were also one of the […]
This week marks a whole year since we first got our allotment. Mark and I have been looking back over photographs from the very beginning and although there might still be lots to do, we’ve come a very long way! I sometimes wonder if we’re taking longer and being more thorough than we need to, […]
Since I was very small, I’ve always wanted my own vegetable patch. The fact that you can nurture something from seed to something you can eat is still amazing to me. Living in London, it’s not easy to come by the garden space needed for a full vegetable patch, so until now I’ve grown tomatoes […]