Our Eco Life

Allotment gardening diary: Freebies are good and I got some free manure and builders bags in December.

Allotment gardening diary :Collected Autumn leaves and filled leaves bay, collected other material and partially filled big compost bay, cleared side of allotment and built another bay for making leafmould.

Allotment gardening diary: Low maintenance allotment cleared, built fence at the back, built compost and storage bays.

Allotment gardening diary :October clean up jobs, sweetcorn cage needs clearing, Clearing greenhouse.

Allotment gardening diary :plenty to harvest, greenhouse still producing, preparing to plant winter crops, end of September harvest.

Allotment gardening diary: Allotment update, harvesting seed potatoes.

Allotment gardening diary : allotment update, dropped tomatoes, chilis harvested for neighbour, a massive harvest.

Allotment gardening diary:  Allotment and greenhouse update plus a great harvest.

Allotment gardening diary :Plants suffering due to weather, Slugs ate my seedlings and silk off sweetcorn, Preparing and mulching brick cold frame, preparing seedlings to go in.

Allotment gardening diary : putting down weed fabric, mulched the market garden rows, allotment update, free bath.

Allotment gardening diary : dug up big stone, still harvesting strawberries, something is stealing the figs, slugs have devastated the sunflowers, good garlic harvest, comfrey harvest and front of allotment cleared.

Allotment gardening diary  :harvesting strawberries and garlic, sorting out the front bed.

Allotment gardening diary :Allotment update, Sweetcorn Cage Completed, Put weed fabric and irrigation in sweetcorn cage, Marigolds deter pests, Sweetcorn planted, Allotment harvests. ###

Allotment gardening diary : Great May harvest, Jobs done on the allotment, Planting seedlings and weeding the allotment, Greenhouse and allotment update.

Allotment gardening diary :allotment update, sowing carrots in buckets, filling celery barrels in raised pots area.

Allotment gardening diary :badgers and other pests causing problems, planted nasturtiums, badger protecting crops, greenhouse filled to capacity, protecting potatoes experiment, first ripe tomatoes, work area for celery and carrots, sowing carrots in buckets.

Allotment gardening diary :Some crops planted, dug out raspberry supports, slug protection in greenhouse worked, lost some unprotected plants, dug up more stones.