Allotment

Spring
	5 hour Easter lamb
	After the flood
	Asparagus and tulips
	Back to life
	Back to the jungle
	Blossom and grass
	Carrots and spring onions: hope over experience
	Catkins and cowslips
	Chelsea musings
	Daffodils and bonfires
	Declaring war on weeds
	Feeling like farmers
	First harvest of the year
	First seeds of the year
	Four seasons in one day
	Good Friday?
	Heligan in March
	Hop on board
	It’s me, Sunflower!
	Keukenhof, Amsterdam
	Marry a carpenter
	More seed sowing
	More seeds
	More seeds: leeks, sunflowers, early salads
	Roots and shoots
	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
	We plough the fields

Summer
	A summer of mixed fortune
	After the deluge
	All the things I’ve messed up
	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
	Cornflowers, broad beans and blackcurrants
	Cornish wild flowers
	Courgette humble-pie
	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 on the allotment
	Kent part 1: Perch Hill
	Kent part 2: Sissinghurst and Great Dixter
	Last resorts
	Learning to live with chaos
	Midsummer allotment
	Notes for next year
	Now they split! High maintenance tomatoes
	Perking up
	Reaping what we (didn’t always) sow
	Risotto primavera
	So it’s summer?
	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 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 is here
	Chrysanthemums Illustrated
	Cobnuts and clearing
	Drying the autumn harvest
	End of year figures
	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 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 November allotment
	Too many tulips? Never!
	Urban decay
	Wedding flowers and wedding cake(s)

Winter
	A big pile of poo
	A spot of pruning
	Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
	Chrysanthemum care
	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