Simon's Allotment

Still plenty to eat from the plot, which is just as well what with the credit crunch and all that nonsense. Cabbages, leeks, carrots, apples...

My bulbs arrived from Kings Seeds today so I've been out there and planted the cloves. I haven't grown it before but it seems to be...

I've harvested these today just as we're getting close to the witchety time. That could be a cue for me to write something about the...

"Golden Acre" cabbages and the spring variety "Durham Early" to their left. Winter variety "January King".

Tasty spears and nice to be eating broccoli this time of year.

Will they or wont they? Do I care? How many of these speculators can grow a row of cabbages? Is Sarah Palin a witch? I think we should be to...

I'm picking these now; there's three trees - a cooker, an eater and a russet - although I don't know the names of the varieties.

As an experiment I've sown half a row of Nantes Frubund today, hopefully they'll get through the winter and be off to a flying start...

Still plenty to eat from the plot - carrots, cabbages, courgettes, tomatoes, raspberries, blackberries and now grapes.

These are still going strong; I used to stop them after five or six trusses but now I train them up to the top of the roof.

Well the rain finally stopped so I took the chance to dig these up. Should keep me going for a week or two.

After the astounding response to my foray into the world of American politics last week (thanks clodhopper) I thought I'd post this litt...

These are starting to put in an appearance:

So every time I put up a new post there's a sudden flurry of interest (alright the hit counter goes up a couple of notches) and quite a ...

Very peculiar weather today. The wet stuff has stopped falling out of the sky and instead there's a big hot round yellow thing up there....

I liked the separated petals on this one:

These just keep on coming: