Summer put in a somewhat belated appearance last week. Trying to make up for lost time the thermometers soared.The result of this sudden onslaught was that we spent very little…

Onions seem to be featuring heavily at the moment. We have them at every stage in their life cycle. At home, sheltering in a cold frame are what are left…

It's round to that stage in the allotmenting year when the focus is more on preparing for next year. It seems to have come along earlier than in previous years…

In my last post, I wrote that I had lifted the onions as the forecast was for a warm dry period. Of course, the forecast was wrong and we had…

I think that the weather gods must have read my previous post and taken pity on us. Last week we actually had some glimpses of summer. The weather forecast sounded…

We really have had more than enough rain now! Back when we were spending our days lugging watering cans, we should have been more careful with what we were wishing…

It seems that no sooner have we planted up all our allotment beds than we start to clear them.  The period of time during which the plot looks its best…

At the moment, there never seems to be a happy medium where our weather is concerned. June saw us lugging watering cans in the level of heat not ideal for…

There is never a happy medium where our weather is concerned. Only a couple of week's ago we were struggling to keep our plants watered. The soil was dry and…

At the beginning of last week, although we had some light rain, we were still watering, The heavy rain that was forecast seemed to be determined to miss us. We had…