Category Archives: Veg plot

Not sure this is an entirely welcome visitor. I suspect it may be nibbling on our pea shoots as they’re looking a bit sorry for themselves below a height of about 20cm. Unless I’m much mistaken it’s a Red Legged … Continue reading →

When strolling around checking on things a few evenings back I noticed a few positive changes… We have courgettes on the way: and some strawberries, though we won’t get many this year because they’re new plants. And some tiny chiles … Continue reading →

A few photos from late May. I’d spent a fair bit of time over the previous few days getting bits and pieces done in the veg plot, though hadn’t entirely finished. In this corner I have some butternut squashes with … Continue reading →

Over the last weekend in April I was mostly mowing grass in the orchard and “upstairs field” and playing chainsaws. In fact I’m not really sure where the time went, but I did manage to do a bit of planting … Continue reading →

A week or so on from my last photos and the onions are really starting to grow now (as are some of the weeds) and a few of the peas are starting to see daylight as well. These are “Sugar … Continue reading →

Vegetable seeds started arriving in the first week of April and I considered myself lucky to get so much of what I wanted given that just about everyone else in the country seemed to be trying to do the same … Continue reading →

With the impending arrival of lockdown in the UK we decided that it might be useful to grow some more of our own food and it therefore became necessary to increase the space we use for growing vegetables which has … Continue reading →