We don't often get too much snow in the South of England, but we were lucky enough to experience some this year. In fact, it was probably the best snow I remember having for a while, largely because the national lockdown meant we could all stay inside in the warm and enjoy the snow rather... Continue Reading →
November plantings
We wanted to give a quick update on some of the things we've been up to this weekend (in between heavy downpours of rain!) We've been a bit quiet for the past few weeks. There are two reasons: 1. That it's that time of year where the nights draw in and it gets colder and wetter,... Continue Reading →
Some early cropping salad too!
As well as our container courgettes, we thought we would start off some salad crops indoors. For now, we've sown some Little Gem and Iceberg lettuces and some Boston beetroot. The lettuces were initially sown in quarter seed trays, like most of our seeds, and then pricked out into these small cell trays (about 1 inch diameter). The... Continue Reading →
Onion harvest
It was time to harvest the red onions we had been growing in a pot last week. Although they hadn't grown particularly big, their leaves had fallen to one side and they were no longer putting up new centre leaf growth so they were as big as they were going to get! Therefore, we gently... Continue Reading →