The courgette glut is a well-known phenomenon. Every year I know it’s coming, and every year I continue to be surprised by how many of these incredible vegetables can be produced by a single plant in a very short space of time. We have about 5 courgette plants on our allotment and I would say […]
Reflecting on the couple of years since we first got our allotment plot it feels like we’ve really had everything thrown at us so far. From cold snaps and late harsh frosts to the recent record-breaking heat waves, and from periods of drought to the pretty disastrous flooding our plot suffered last year, each have […]
We are finally enjoying our first successful year of growing carrots. We were able to harvest a handful in our first season, but didn’t yet have enough growing space to get very many. Then last year we didn’t harvest any at all due to the flooding of our plot and the destruction caused by what […]
The elderflowers are out and summer feels like it’s really here. I find myself making more and more with elderflowers every year as they’re wonderfully abundant and so incredibly fragrant and delicious. They also keep their flavour really well with heat which I find isn’t the case with many of the other wild ingredients I […]
Wild plums are often smaller than shop-bought varieties, more alike to the size of a cherry hence one of their common names being “Cherry Plum”, but what they lack in size they make up for in sweetness and flavour. They’re also known as Mirabelle plums in France and are incredibly popular there, particularly in the […]
I last posted about our allotment in this update back in April and that feels like such a long time ago! At was at the start of April that we had our offer accepted on our new house that we finally moved into two weeks ago. Since my last update we’ve had a very cold, […]
First of all apologies for my lack of blog posts in the past little while. If you’ve been following me on Instagram lately you will know that last week was a huge week for Mark and me – WE MOVED HOUSE! After the tense legal process and trying not to let ourselves get too excited […]
It’s been a year of firsts for our allotment as we approach the end of our first full growing season. We’ve grown so many things for the first time this year including sweetcorn, potatoes, cucumbers, onions, radishes and a variety of different beans. Florence fennel is a wonderful vegetable and one that I didn’t have […]
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 weather in the UK this last few weeks has been typically British: unpredictable and wet. The recent rain has at least meant that we haven’t had to do as much watering of our allotment (although we still have to water in the polytunnel), but the flip-flopping between hot, dry spells, and muggy, wet weather […]