Simon's Allotment

No shortage of veggies this month as the harvest gets into full swing. Potatoes, runner and French beans, carrots and kale all keeping me we...

Here's what's been providing pollen and nectar this month: Agastache foenicolium  Agastache foenicolium "Golden Jubilee...

 Echium "Blue Bedder" - one of the bee's favourites. Summer stunner: Helenium "Sahin's Early Flowerer...

The most success I've had with planting plug plants in the meadow area of the orchard - and the one most popular with the bees - has bee...

What's been flowering for the bees and butterflies this month: Agastache foenicolium  Agastache foenicolium "Golden Jubilee...

So the solstice has been and gone and I can finally stop living off asparagus and leaf beet. Broad beans, peas, carrots and cabbage all comi...

Plenty of candy this month, here's what's flowering out on the plot: Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) Astrantia major Blood Pink (Diant...

Looks like I'll be in for a bumper crop from the top fruit this year: apples, pears, plums and cherries all looking good. I've manag...

Well the equinox is here and I can get on with sowing some seeds. Whether I carry on with this blog is another matter, it seems to have fizz...