Simon's Allotment

I've moved my pages from 2005-2007 over here to Blogger. God knows how people spend their days staring at a screen like this all day but...

Busy busy out on the plot and in the potting shed; well it is spring so that's just as it should be. The apple blossom looks stunning, a...

I sowed these in the greenhouse a month ago and moved them to the coldframe to harden off a week ago. Today I've pinched their tops out ...

The early peas that I planted out three weeks ago are coming along nicely, I've put up the second string of their support today, and sow...

Thursday April 23rd 2009 marks the 30th anniversary of the murder of Blair Peach at the hands of London's Metropolitan Police. Blair wa...

I grow a few salad leaves and herbs by the back door, otherwise my back garden is all flowers - food for the soul - the usual cottage garden...

Not much to do on the plot this week: sown a row of carrots, mulched the comfrey with compost, cut back a few blackberries. Bit of a doss re...

Sowed the early carrots next to the onions:

Couldn't resist that one. So easter is here again, time to get the spuds in. And sow a few spring onions. Start giving the early peas a ...

These are starting to make an appearance:

First string of support put up:

Nice to be picking broccoli again. It must be one of the best plants for the amount you can crop from a small space.

This just in. Representatives of the worlds big corporations meeting at the G20 summit have released a statement saying they are going to ab...

Planting out the early peas - - Watered in and given some protection from the pigeons, although the crows seem to be seeing them off at the ...

Time at last to sow some seeds in the greenhouse. Today it's the turn of the cabbages, sweet peas, tomatos, snapdragons and a couple of ...

I sowed these in the greenhouse about three weeks ago. Today they're ready to go out in the coldframe to be hardened off for a week, nex...

Apparently it's Mothering Sunday, so I've been round to the old gals for a bit of mothering but she was out, probably round at one m...