Our Plot at Green Lane Allotments

Activity is rather repetitive at the allotment at the moment and I won’t bore you with photos of the beds that we cleared, weeded and

Nights are beginning to draw in, which is a sign that our allotment season is winding down. There are still some crops to harvest. Some

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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