Moving platform

Hi all I am experimenting with Substack. I’ll be keeping this site up for a bit, and I’ll let you know if I’m going to close it permanently. I’m looking into automatically taking existing subscribers with me. My Substack is currently free. Here’s the link: https://angelyoung.substack.com

Arrrgh weeds!

I have been away working for a couple of week, and went back to my allotment to find it looked like I had abandoned it for year! Weeds everywhere – in the beds, on the paths. Consulting with a fellow allotmenteer, he said it was fine until about 5 days before when everything went crazy…

Tomato obsession part 2

In a bid to fend off any tomato shortages this year, I have fallen into the old trap of too many tomato seedlings. I thought I was being really good: only sowing 2 pods with seedlings each. However I have still managed to produce loads – and now have 31 seedlings potted on (plus 5…

Eats shoots and leaves

My friend down at the allotment has cast aspersions on my fruit cage and has taken over. Pics on that later. It already looks nicer than the old one. It’s more rustic and therefore more in keeping with the allotment. Little does he realise that I intend to tie bunting to it! I have planted…

Flower Love and some peas

Planting flowers – so important for colour in the garden. I’ve chosen to lovely ones to grow from seed. As usual it’s taken a few days to write this post, so I keep adding to my lists below… Firstly my favourites – beautiful floaty cosmos – in fact these have now germinated! Then I’m going…

Tomato obsession?

So as tomatoes have proved to be a bit hard to get lately I thought I better plant some more after all. At least I can make lots of pasata …. The ones I planted today are (sorry bit late posting this, so I did this about 2 weeks ago): I have sensibly managed just…

More Feb Seeds

Here are some more newly planted seeds. Already I suspect I am not leaving enough space for later plantings…. At this point of the year, I always doubt how many seeds will geminate so I plant too many. Also I have forgotten to succession plant my broad beans again. Maybe I’ll manage it with the…

Restart

I love Feb – well I love the restart for the garden that February brings – the snowdrops, the beginnings of daffs (early this year), the buds just starting to appear. Truthfully, I don’t love the unending grey days, although to be fair we’ve had some glorious sun in the last week. But at this…

April Plantings

I only seem to write about seeds these days. Must try harder! Anyway here are some more seeds. Germination has been pretty good this year. Some of the sweet peas (onyx mix, blue mix), eating peas (Alderman / Hurst Shaft) and broad beans (Stereo) have not germinated so well, so I’ve planted some more Crimson…

March seeds

Oh it’s April – how did that happen. This is my March post! Ah Spring is in the air at last. I am so glad. The daffs are bobbing along in my garden and the tulips are starting to come through the ground. Planting wise, I am up to Pea – Hurst Green, Alderman, Blauwschokker…