Our Plot at Green Lane allotments

We only paid two visits to the allotment last week and one of those was only fleeting. Early in the week, we had been kept busy. Our fruit growing area has been somewhat neglected so we are hoping to give it a really good tidy up now that things...

Activity is rather repetitive at the allotment at the moment and I won’t bore you with photos of the beds that we cleared, weeded and dug last week. The plot is becoming a patchwork of beds in various stages of preparation for next season. More and...

Nights are beginning to draw in, which is a sign that our allotment season is winding down. There are still some crops to harvest. Some such as parsnips, cabbages and leeks will stay in the ground until needed and others will be brought home to store...

Summer put in a somewhat belated appearance last week. Trying to make up for lost time the thermometers soared.The result of this sudden onslaught was that we spent very little time at the allotment and confined our visits later in the week to the mo...

Summer put in a somewhat belated appearance last week. Trying to make up for lost time the thermometers soared.The result of this sudden onslaught was that we spent very little time at the allotment and confined our visits later in the week to the mo...

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Onions seem to be featuring heavily at the moment. We have them at every stage in their life cycle.At home, sheltering in a cold frame are what are left of the onions planted last autumn.Drying off at the allotment are the spring planted onions. It h...