Simon's Allotment

Poor Susan. They build you up and then they knock you down. It's just as well nobody nominated me for the best bloggywog ever award. It...

I've put a row of snapdragons by the peas and another in between the asparagus plants, which are in their first year so there's plen...

Out in the garden the climbing roses are doing their thing: "Zepherine Drouhin" "Ena Harkness"

What a cracking day, nice enough to warm even my cold heart. I can't usually be bothered with bedding plants but I scored some cheap one...

The early peas are flowering now and I've put up the support for the next row.

Astrantia - but which one? Red Salad Bowl planted out Huchera "Stormy Seas" Verbascum - I grew them from seed but of course can...

I think Soilman has already summed up the "wank tank horror show" that is Chelsea Flower Show as well as anyone so I shan't t...

May can be a treacherous month. Hot one day, cold the next, that mean east wind - not fit for man nor beast as me grandad used to say, and h...

Pots left to right: parsley, salad mix, thyme, wild rocket, chives.

Good growing weather, just as it should be for May. The weeds are certainly liking it so I've spent much of today mooching about with fo...

The back garden is getting into the swing; the aquilegias are flowering as is one of my favourites - the dinky veronica gentianoides.

Someone said something this week which got me thinking about brazen hussies. Especially after reading an article in The Observer by gardenin...

Up the workers and all that. Nice steady day out on the plot. A bit more sowing and potting on in the potting shed (where else?) Outside I...