Simon's Allotment

Rained for most of the day yesterday. You could almost here the land breathing a sigh or relief; me too. Lots of planting out this weekend: ...

The rain has softened up the ground nicely so I've planted out the ox-eye daisies in a drift in the orchard. I used a bulb planter to do...

So the weathers gone totally mental. Thirty degrees and scorching sun. More like an Australian summers day than an English one. Still no rai...

I planted the purple cherry when I first started here ten years ago. It was a poor little thing growing between the cracks in some paving wh...

The lack of rain hasn't helped the establishment of these one bit. The meadow mix is about two inches high: The only thing growing in ...

I'm going to try cordon training these this year. In theory this will give me better quality flowers. I pinched the tops out when they w...

It's that time of year again, shuffling plants from greenhouse to coldframes or outside and out into the ground. The weather's playi...

I'm not all that keen on sweetcorn to be honest, all that faffing about chewing them off the cob isn't much my thing. And have you n...

Well they made a monkey out of me, I got caught up in the hype and went and voted. Now look what we've got . Never again. So to shake of...

"The only product of New York is shit..." Not my words but Bill Mollison's, from his Global Gardener series. Well it gave me a...

My grapevine ("Boskoop Glory") is trained accross the top of my greenhouse. I cut all last years side shoots back to the main vine...

So the rain's finally arrived this week but with it today a return of winter temperatures. Hey-ho. At least it's been wet enough for...

Cherry blossom Apple blossom If dandelions were half-a-crown...

The second of my wildflower areas was to have been the cornfield mix that I sowed in pots a few weeks ago. But I had second thoughts about t...

The first patch planted out:

I ate the very last of the brussels sprouts this week, remarkable to think they've been feeding me since December. But they were going t...

Lovely weekend again, blossom out on the plum tree, busy busy on the plot. What we really need is some rain, none for three weeks now, save ...

Carnations in this case. From small modules... ...into 9cm pots: Once they've grown into their pots they go out into the coldframe to ha...

I first read about this unusual tuber on Ken Fern's Plants For A Future website and managed to obtain some tubercles from John in York ...