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At last the beans are thriving and the tomatoes  look good. All the spare flowers are also making the allotment look good. So now we start next year.  We have ordered the overwintering onions and shallots. We have been given some local heritage strawberries. Also we are trailing “Strulch” for...

It’s amazing, it’s wonderful. At last all the work we have putin is worthwhile. OK, the broad beans have been coming for some time. Now we also have th dwarf french beans, the runner beans and the butter beans all looking goo. Similarly the Charlotte potatoes are looking though the...

in my battle, “winning against AMD” A merest whim of an idea, could it become a sentence, or even a paragraph let alone a possibility of a new chapter in my battle with AMD. I have noticed that as I can’t read a word then I can’t spell it so...

It started with the word “processional”. Yes I remembered The Hebrew Slaves from Nabucco, The Triumphal March from Aida and then there was the March of Torreadores from Carmen. Of course, I must not forget Vidor’s Toccata. But finally I remembered the word Tannhauser, That was it. Wagner wasn’t it...

OK it was only for one day but we did get the chance to replant some of our losses. We can still applaud our good fortune  with the plants that have done well. In particular our tomatoes and  (after a battle) the runner beans, may be a little early. so...

11 May 2024 on the Allotment As with the farmers and all other allotmenteers, we suffered a pretty appalling winter, too wet, too cold, no warmth. Just picture s field of mud. We have resown all the failures and so start the spring with new hopes. The prime performers so...

T‘was a cold and bitter spring April 20th 2024. We hope we’ve survived and that will all be due to the polytunnel. We had to plant broad beans there because it has been so wet and cold. Now we have sown runner beans in trays but then will move them...

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Spring has sprung or has it?   The only hard frost was in early January, since then it has been wet and warm, indeed very wet- even as I write this. Will there be another frost by the end of April? Outdoors the onions and garlics are doing well. The...

Seed SOWING Diary/ Rolling Calendar For the first time ever I decided to keep a document on my computer which would control what to buy (when) what to sow (when) an (where). This a copy of the document today, 23 Mar 2024. Some of these are just for fun and many...