Notes from the Veg Patch
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Spring
5 hour Easter lamb
After the flood
Asparagus and gladioli
Asparagus and tulips
Back to life
Back to the jungle
Battle of the bramble
Blossom and grass
Bonus crops
Carrots and spring onions: hope over experience
Catkins and cowslips
Chelsea musings
Daffodils and bonfires
Dealing with disappointment
Declaring war on weeds
Feeling like farmers
Finally, the warm months
First harvest of the year
First seeds of the year
Four seasons in one day
Getting down to business
Good Friday?
Heligan in March
Hop on board
Hop twine bean poles
Inspiration and perspiration
It’s me, Sunflower!
Keukenhof, Amsterdam
Marry a carpenter
More seed sowing
More seeds
More seeds: leeks, sunflowers, early salads
Nettles and sorrel
Outdoors-ing it
Roots and shoots
Sowing the HAs and HHAs
Sowing the seeds of…hardy annuals actually
Spring wildflowers: Yellow, white and blue
Spring, sprung
Sun, straw and plenty of annuals
Sunflower Club
The allotment season begins
The daring poles of May
The early March allotment
The full sowing list
The Great Allotment Plant-Out
The great crysanth plant-out
The hopolisk is risen
The new organic garden
The plant-out begins
The seed list, 2021
We plough the fields
Summer
A summer of mixed fortune
After the deluge
All the things I’ve messed up
Allotmenting for wildlife
Artichokes, Part 1
Artichokes, part 2
August National Trust-ing
August pickings
Birds and bees and bugs
Blackcurrant leaf sorbet
Blossom end rot and the first stick beans
Broad beans and artichokes
Coming into abundance
Cornflowers, broad beans and blackcurrants
Cornish wild flowers
Courgette humble-pie
Dream vs reality
End of the broad beans
Eton vs Grange Hill vs The Hopolisk
Gardening with the enemy
Gooseberry, strawberry & almond crumble
Harvest before the deluge
He knows his onions
Heading to drought?
Hired thugs
In praise of horta
Into the greenhouse
June Bobby broad-bean salad
June in review
June on the allotment
Kent part 1: Perch Hill
Kent part 2: Sissinghurst and Great Dixter
Kiftsgate Court Gardens
Last resorts
Learning to live with chaos
Midsummer allotment
Notes for next year
Now they split! High maintenance tomatoes
Perking up
Planting out
Rain stops play
Reaping what we (didn’t always) sow
Reflecting on a year-round harvest
Risotto primavera
Sausage and (broad) beans on toast
So it’s summer?
Stars of the season
Summer inspiration
Summer rain
Sunburn and black kale
Take a kilo of blackcurrants…
The Brassica Protection System
The early August allotment
The early June allotment
The floral dance
The hop harvest
The July allotment
The July glut
The last day of summer
The tip of season’s change
The trendiest weed of all
Thinking ahead
Urban foraging
Autumn
A question of life and death
A question of squash
Allotmenting as stress relief
Autumn cleaning
Autumn clearance
Autumn is here
Chrysanthemums Illustrated
Cobnuts and clearing
Drying the autumn harvest
End of year figures
Finally, fireworks
First frosts and whiskey cake
Humble (pumpkin) pie
It’s dirty work but…
Missed hopportunity
Muck spreading
Normal service resumes
Notes for 2020
Now is the winter of our discontent
October is the new August
October pickings
Over-wintering
Pictures of autumn
Pictures of autumn
Poo and beans
Rain stops play
Reaping what you sow
September pickings
Succot-hash
Sweet potato & pumpkin curry
The drying room
The November allotment
Too many tulips? Never!
Urban decay
Wedding flowers and wedding cake(s)
Winter
A big pile of poo
A confusion of seasons
A spot of pruning
Blackberries and PSB
Chipping the rasps
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Chrysanthemum care
Cut flowers in mid-winter
First sowing of the year: sweet peas
Frostbite and reclaimed land
Hello winter!
Hints of spring
Look what’s here!
Pause for breath
Planning and plotting
Pruning time
Review of the year: 2015
Seeds are here, tomatoes are in
Seeds of optimism
Sweet peas are made of this
The January allotment
The planting diary
Veg patch to bed, rather later than planned
Wintering