Adventures in the life of an English allotment
Today marks a significant day in the allotment year - Potato Day. Arranged every year by the Crewe Town Allotment Federation, it's an opportunity to buy seed potatoes and a variety of other seeds for the growing season. Every year, we buy a selection of seeds, enjoying browsing all the different varieties, most of which... Continue Reading →
It's been a busy couple of weeks and now that technical issues are finally sorted, I can recommence normal updates! The last two weeks have seen huge growth down the allotment as we have (very unusually for Northern England) had two weeks of glorious sunshine! Our daughter's tree has been planted and looks perfect in... Continue Reading →
Still bogged down with flu, I dragged myself down to get some fresh air. The sunshine finally has appeared and according to the Met Office, it will be here for the entire Bank Holiday weekend. I walked down to the chickens and was greeted by a chorus of disgust at the lateness of the hour.... Continue Reading →
I received a very exciting email this afternoon - I have found a nursery which is able to supply a Plymouth Pear tree! I emailed every fruit tree supplier in the UK who claim to specialise in traditional or rare fruit trees and eventually, after many failed attempts, I have found somewhere that has a... Continue Reading →
This morning after the compulsory Saturday morning lie-in, I went down to the allotment. The unrelenting rain yesterday worried me as our plot has been more of a bog than plot after rain the last few months. People on site have taken to suggesting we have our own pre-made paddy field. Happily, apart from a... Continue Reading →
We ambled down at a leisurely hour this morning to feed the chickens and to have a look at our work from yesterday. Chickens were grumpy at being fed so late and made their objections loudly. We fed them, changed their water and cleared out the nest box and left them to it. We had... Continue Reading →
This morning we again pottered down to the allotment ready for a couple of hours work in the sunshine. Although the weather was finally clear, it will take several days of sunshine before the allotment stops being a bog and dries enough to properly dig over. Both of us got spectacularly stuck at various points... Continue Reading →
With my husband off work and me on Easter hols, we headed down to the allotment determined to make serious inroads into the plot. Whilst my husband did all the heavy digging - covering almost a third of the entire plot - I did my best to find th strawberry plants buried under several tons... Continue Reading →
It's been a manic couple of weeks, trying to get organised ready for the start of term which seems to be racing towards us at a rate of knots. Apart from dashing down to feed and clear out the chickens, the plot has been left to its own devices. Geoff's chickens seem to have almost... Continue Reading →
Pottered back down the allotment this morning expecting to be greeted with a graveyard of dead plants in the greenhouse and a wilderness on the plot. Well, I was half right.... Due to the appalling heat, I beat a hasty retreat and returned in the afternoon once the blazing fire on the sky disappeared. I... Continue Reading →
So once again I haven't made it down to the allotment thus I have decided to start planning for next year so I can finally stay on top of things. Question is - where to start? I usually start by drawing up a list of things I want to grow then get all muddled with... Continue Reading →
It is almost a year since we took on our second plot and so much has changed! Below are the photos of the plot when we took it over at the end of September 2014 - it wasn't pretty! We have removed masses of rubbish from the plot including a gun case, pigeon carriers and... Continue Reading →
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