What a difference some rain makes.

It’s grow while you watch time….

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OK that’ll teach me to whinge about near drought

conditions. 24 hours of rain and counting.  Oh and just in case the air isn’t wet enough with water coming down in lumps, there’s fog too. Good, in a grudging kind of way.

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What joy it is in this spring to be alive.

Everything is growing like crazy.  Including the weeds, obviously, although after this afternoon’s hoeing action (soundtrack Kate Rusby and a compilation from this gentleman)  a lot of them have gone the way of the less popular wives of King Henry VIII.  The purple sprouting broccoli just keeps on giving: a huge bunch of it is [...]

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OK! Stop panicking!

I’ve found the chard seeds.  And the sweetcorn.  We are rockin’ a fat one.  Now then.  If you ever have the urge to take a wheelbarrowload of your crumbly finest compost to the allotment that is fine.  If you have an irrepressible urge to add your new water butt, half-full of precious rainwater to the [...]

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The point of an allotment is to feed us.

The fun, exercise and  feeling of smugness when you cut/pull/pick and eat your own are just extras.  But really it’s about growing the food.  So it was good to read Hook, line and thinker: coastal food foraging in yorkshire. North Yorkshire.  Staithes, in fact, the next village to the north here, 2 miles away. …an [...]

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This week we will mostly be eating…

purple sprouting broccoli, fresh out of the ground.  And very nice it is, too.  More later, but for now the sun is out….

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Busy busy busy…

however, off to no 16 later today to do some more hoeing. CHard to go in and sweetcorn germinating.  In the meantime go and look at Out Of Our Own Back Yard. Ooooby is… – food growers and locavores with a goal of food interdependence. – a place to learn from, connect and exchange with [...]

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