March 9, 2009
Landshare is an exciting new project with some 4iP funding behind it. Or at least I think it has 4iP funding. It certainly is 4iP in feel as explained by Adam Gee on the 4ip website. But anyway – I think it’s a cracking idea. It connects people who want to grow stuff with people [...]
January 3, 2009
We got our allotment patch in Bournville just about a year ago so I thought it worthwhile to list what we grew and how successful we were: Cabbage – I now love cabbage, having hated it from childhood. Problems with white cabbage butterflies but still had about 6 heads. Carrots – total flop, carrot root [...]
September 30, 2008
Here’s a picture of a cabbage from the allotment. It’s here partly at the suggestion of Nick Booth who quite rightly thinks I should put some distance between the experience of being at the Tory party conference and the actual blogging of it. Please admire how perfectly formed it is. It shall be eaten with [...]
August 6, 2008
Back from 10 days away to find the plot not starved of water and wilting, as I’d feared, but flourishing and bountiful and generally gone kinda crazy. I guess it rained in Birmingham while we were away. The courgettes were half-way to marrows and there were 4 cauliflowers ready to pull. Before we left they [...]
July 21, 2008
Just a quick post to show you that the plot is now giving up some of its goodies. The overgrown back of the plot has plenty of lovely sweet red currants and raspberries whilst the last of the new potatoes are out of the ground. The longer they stayed in there the larger they swelled compared [...]
July 15, 2008
Finally got round to sorting out the other half of the front of my plot. Took me ages to tidy all the crap I’d thrown in there and of course underneath was tons of great compost. I now have two heaps and plenty of compost. Wandering down to view my handy-work next day I was [...]
July 14, 2008
A comment by Annette reminds me that I was going to do a post extolling the virtues of Rhubarb having previously not seen the point of it. The picking season for rhubarb is more or less at an end so I won’t do so in detail other than to say that my mind was changed [...]
July 8, 2008
Led by Lucy at the Smallest Smallholding a group of allotment/small-holding bloggers have got together to create a Youtube channel about our attempts to live off the land to various degrees (in my case living off the land amounts to eating lots of rhubarb and new potatoes). I’m one of them despite or maybe because of [...]