Going Potty
Reading time 4 minutes
If the pandemic has taught us one thing, it’s to look after our mental health. If it’s taught us another, it’s to look out […]
Plants
A Year of Plotting
Reading time 21 minutes
January 2020 After waiting only four months, we got the news that we had reached the top of the allotment waiting list: if we […]
BITTERSWEET MEMORIES OF 2020
Reading time 22 minutes
The year 2020. Where to begin? It’s tempting to dive straight into the obvious negatives – and let’s face it that would be rich […]
planting ahead
Reading time 7 minutes
The first draft of this post began with a rather gloomy assessment of the year’s events. By the time I reached the third paragraph […]
Whatever the Weather
Reading time 8 minutes
Since the end of August the garden has taken one battering after another. In Broadstairs we have experienced gales from every point on the […]
Getting Away From It All
Reading time 7 minutes
Like many folk, we’ve barely spent a night away from home since the New Year. I love The Watch House with all my heart, […]
Glut Instinct
Reading time 14 minutes
“Growing your own produce is great if you want no food, then 400 tomatoes, then nothing, then 120 cucumbers, then nothing, then 3 carrots that […]
Dazzling Dahlias
Reading time 11 minutes
As you know, we both adore dahlias: sadly they don’t adore our garden. Dahlias appreciate a little elbow room and plenty of sunshine to […]
And So It Begins…
Reading time 9 minutes
It is official, we won’t go hungry this summer! Harvesting on the allotment has well and truly begun, especially the crop of courgettes, and […]
Beginning with Brugmansias
Reading time 10 minutes
I’ve been getting increasingly frustrated with myself for posting so infrequently. Okay, so I no longer have a long commute to London and I […]
Garden Diary: May 2020 Part I
Reading time 18 minutes
Where, oh where did May go? No sooner had it started than June was upon us. Now it’s midsummer, the longest day is almost […]
The Plot Thickens…
Reading time 9 minutes
I have been meaning to write an update on the allotment for a little while now. While reading the previous chapter, I am wondering […]