Simon's Allotment

Say what you like about the banks, at least they give us an extra day off work. Is that right? I'm trying to practice acceptance and for...

The dry spell we had until recently means the courgettes are suffering with mildew but they're still cropping nicely:

Dahlias and sweet peas:

It's always satisfying to get two crops of the same piece of ground. I sowed this row of late summer cabbages where I'd cropped the ...

Signs that autumn isn't far away.

I'm hardly a big fan of intensive arable farming but it at least it makes for some pretty pattens in the landscape at this time of year,...

Full moon tonight, the harvest moon. Plenty of harvesting going on here - and the only riot is one of colour and produce. Peas and beans, sp...

There seems to have been an explosion in the population of hoverflies this week, to add to the bees and butterflies: