Simon's Allotment

These are ready for picking now.

I'm having a day off from the plot today as it's the birthday. First prize for the cheekiest card goes to my daughter - I've abs...

Nothing much to do on the plot at the moment except deal with a few weeds and harvest the fruits of my labour. Just as it should be for this...

These are coming along now so I've put up some support:

As the ground's wet after all the recent rain it's a good time to get a mulch on. What compost I've got I've spread around t...

The strawberries are about over so it's time for the raspberries:

These are starting to flower so will soon be ready for picking

I'm picking the earlies now and the maincrop are coming along nicely.

The Pentland Javelin have finished flowering so time to dig up the first plant, always an anxious moment: will there be anything there? Will...

This turned out to look really nice and has been smothered in bees so it's a shame to have to dig it in but that's what its for so ...

The Greyhound are ready for eating now just as the Durham Early are coming to an end, which is brilliant timing, although more by luck than ...

I'm trying to eat this as fast as I can before it bolts.

Well the solstice has been and gone and I have to say that for growing the weather in June has been absolute pants. It's been much coole...

I usually get the mother-in-law to make this - I provide the fruit, she buys the sugar and we split the produce - and it's kind of appro...

The plot's about planted up now, except of course it never is: there's still the leeks to go in and the sprouting broccoli and I...

I'd sowed these back in the middle of April and planted them out today: