Simon's Allotment

Loads to eat from the plot despite the soggy weather: spuds, peas, carrots, french and runner beans, cabbage, tomatoes, stored garlic. I...

Cosmos and snapdragons still flowering nicely and carnations just starting to:

This is something I never seem to get around to doing enough of so I'm trying to rectify that. Love-in-a-mist Sweet rocket

I sowed this phacelia where the garlic was and it's greening up nicely:

Raspberries and blackberries:

I don't often buy plants but I couldn't resist this salvia "Blue Angel" with it's intense blue flowers.

Potentilla and lettuce (red salad bowl)

You've probably heard of the problems gardeners and allotment holders have faced after using manure contaminated with aminopyralid. Thou...

Michael Pollan on swine flu, Monsanto, GMOs, "real sugar", school lunches in America, Michelle Obama's garden, corporate land ...

These are ready now just as there's a break in the peas which is good timing, though more by luck than judgement if I'm being honest...

These are cropping well now despite the ravages of slugs and blackfly. They wouldn't make the show bench so it's just as well that...

Like most people I used to grow a row of these and end up giving most of them away or feeding them to the cows. So now I just grow a few up ...

Why we go through all this nonsense:

Phacelia (not yet in flower) and nasturtiums. Nice for the bees and hover flies.

Still coming on strong:

I've been using saved seed for a few years now and these are starting to cross and revert so next year I'll have to dig deep and for...

The garden's still looking cute despite the weather: Kniphofia Sedum

Went looking for Sheffield Botanical Gardens this afternoon but got lost and couldn't find them. On the plus side I did get to drive thr...