Monthly Archives: June 2016

Late June 2016 Growing Report

Fragoo Deep Rose Strawberries

Visually pleasing and deliciously sweet - our Fragoo Deep Rose strawberry plants.

Well, what a strange month June turned out to be! The most exciting news is that we now have an allotment! After that the biggest news has been the weather. The month started with a mini-heatwave which decimated crops in our plastic greenhouse, forcing us to get a move on and finish planting everything out. Then the wind and rain wreaked havoc with the plants once they were out! It hasn’t felt like June. Early in the month (after the few hot days), it was quite cold. It may as well have been April. It’s warmed up somewhat now, but…

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Exciting News – We Have An Allotment!

Our new allotment. Uncultivated in this photo.

Our new growing space - a 3 rod allotment.

There has been an exciting development for us and our fruit and vegetable growing.  We’ve got an allotment! It’s something we had considered for some time. We thought about it a lot before we moved into our current house. But once we moved here and had more growing space than ever before, we were in our element and the idea of an allotment became less important. Of course more space would have been nice. Just a few weeks ago I commented in a post that due to our crop rotation plan and the size differences between our beds we wouldn’t be…

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Early June Garden Update

Oca shoots growing oca in the UK

Some oca shoots poking through the soil.

It’s been nearly three weeks since our last post and a lot has changed since then. Shortly after going to press our young Court Pendu Plat apple came into bloom. As noted in our last post, this tree was historically known as ‘the wise apple’, because it blossoms so late in the season that it never loses its blossom to late frosts. This then signified that it was time for our mostly hardened off tomatoes and curcubits to be planted out into the miscellaneous crops bed. But then disaster struck. In quick succession strong winds and unexpected hot weather devastated…

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