About 6 months ago a colleague forwarded an email from the Environmental Society at work, looking for people who were interested in purchasing a wormery. I’ve had my eye on one for ages, so I leapt at the chance, looking forward to converting my kitchen waste into high powered vermicompost for the allotment. The ordering…
Category: gardening
The subject of what we eat, and where our food comes from has been on my mind a lot recently. I try to eat a healthy diet, and I greatly prefer not to buy prepackaged or preprocessed food, but the reality is, I hate shopping, I’m not very organized, and especially on Fridays and Saturdays…
Sometimes accidents work out for the best – in this case, the unexpected self seeding of some tomato plants in my greenhouse. Left to myself, I wouldn’t have bothered growing any tomatoes, now I’m pretty sure I’ll have some next year too. Not only do they make good gifts, but they can also be turned…
What better way to spend a sunny Sunday afternoon than demolishing things? A week ago when I went down to the allotment I discovered that one of the fences had come down in the storms. Since the whole fence was looking pretty rotten, today I went back down and finished what the storm had started….
Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit books form part of my earliest memories, and I always remember thinking that Mr McGregor was very unreasonable in chasing him out of his vegetable garden. Times have perhaps changed. Much as I hate to admit it, the signs do seem to point to rabbits as being my leek-eating culprits. When…
It may be turning colder, but things haven’t come to a complete standstill yet at the allotment. The tomatoes are over, but the leeks are still just about holding their own (despite coming under attack), and I still have a few surprises, such as these radishes growing in the greenhouse. The first lot of garlic…
It’s official! I got the keys to the allotment this morning. We also picked our first produce – two giant courgettes, which have taken advantage of the limited attention they’ve received recently to grow to mammoth proportions. The previous owner had had the allotment for about 40 years, and originally also used it for growing…
Looks quite promising from the outside but rather disappointing on the inside Courgettes were looking very good to start with, but never grew very large, and most of them rotted.
During my week in York, my vegetables have been growing wild. I came back to find that the rucola and the courgettes were practically taking over the garden. The fennel is growing onwards and upwards (I should really admit defeat and pull it up now) and the new beans I planted are taking off. Even…