There’s no escaping the fact that midsummer is well behind us and the days are getting shorter. Our garden openings are behind us, or so we thought before we were asked if we would have a sma…| garden ruminations
Our penultimate garden open was yesterday, the final one today. We had a fair turnout yesterday and would normally expect more on Saturday than Friday, so finishing on a high.In spite of many weeks…| garden ruminations
August. I was talking with my neighbour on the allotment earlier about how much of the growing season was left and whether seeds I’d sown a month ago would yield a crop. A day earlier I was t…| garden ruminations
A month ago I had just taken on another half plot, cleared a section of it and sown seeds of carrots, beetroot, perpetual spinach, chard, spring onions and lettuce. All but the lettuce germinated, …| garden ruminations
