We had quite a change of routine last week.Work on the allotment has been confined to watering - lots of watering - and harvesting. A hosepipe ban is planned for…

Well isn't it a difficult year for gardeners and farmers? Any rain that is falling just wets any bare earth as it isn't heavy enough to penetrate any plant top-growth.…

We only managed a couple of visits to the allotment last week. We had a couple of appointments and the drizzly rain was enough to make gardening a less attractive…

Last week was certainly different. High temperatures were forecasted for the beginning of the week, so we decided to make morning visits to the allotment in order to make sure…

We are still waiting for the elusive rain to turn up. We keep being promised thunderstorms but they magically disappear from the forecasts before they are due to arrive. The…

The pantomime in London that  dominated our news channels last week didn't depict the only battle that was going on. We are still battling to keep our crops going on…

It's been a very frustrating week weather-wise. We have had a little rain but only enough to dampen the top few millimetres of soil. Short showers tend to dry up…

We are still in desperate need of some real rain. The situation is being made worse as the warm, sunny weather accompanied by very breezy conditions soon dry out whatever…

What a mixed up week last week was! It is so difficult to know what to wear. One minute we needed to layer up and the next we needed to…

Last week was a bit of a mixed week weather-wise. It's difficult to remember that we are now in June and the beginning of summer. On some days we have…