It's been a while. I've been a busy girl lately having decided to have a very long weekend for a 10 year anniversary hen weekend (and...

Amazingly, with little or no hangovers, we all trooped up to the allotment to appraise my work from the day before. I was still sad that...

9am and up onsite ready to receive 2 cubic metres of this...🤪 I always had a plan and new exactly how my allotment should be. 3...

It's been warm through March and my tomato seeds have grown really well in the heated propagator at home and are now lovely plants. I've...

Ever helpful and willing husband out in the boards for the asparagus bed. It’s been a bit wet but having made a scary order (you’ll find...

It’s March! Isn’t that the first month of spring? Have we made it through the bleak mid winter? There’s an odd bit of soul at the side of...

Over the past few months I’ve been keeping my eyes peeled for paving slabs to path as much of the site as possible. When we made the beds...

It's been chilly and although my patience is improving, there is something I can do in preparation for planting...warm the soil up. A...

Not a huge amount going on to be honest. The snow didn't stay for long and the ground is too hard to turn over so it's far better to let...

January is a funny month for an allotment holder. Keen to be getting on with the plot but not too much to be done. I'd read all my books...

The 1st of January, where better to be than on the allotment sorting out the shed, arranging my shed biscuit tin biscuit stash and...

It's hard to believe that the allotment has changed so much in just 3 months. It was with great pride that I took Simon's family on a...

You may recall that I'd put a shout out on the Whimple Facebook page and local sites for anyone wishing to get rid of old paving slabs,...

Sunday morning and a sunny one. The heavens had opened for days and after the quagmire I'd left the day before, I didn't have much hopes...

A break in the weather saw us charging to the allotment at full pelt to try to get as much done as possible before the next downpour. ...

The shed in place, just the rest of the beds to go. I still can't believe there's a pesky piece of grassy soil left. Will this never...

When I took on the allotment plots I had a very basic background in growing veg. Mum and Dad had a decent sized vegetable patch in their...

What a beautiful day to shed build! We eaasily managed to get all the shed panels onto the roof of the car and headed for the allotment...

The long awaited shed arrived by 8:30am and the weather was once again going to be fine for the weekend. The plan for the day was to lay...

We tend to be quite a busy couple or at least there aren't that many weekends when both Simon and I are at home and this one wasn't one...