Celebrating seasonal, homegrown, and wild food
The courgette glut is a well-known phenomenon. Every year I know it's coming, and every year I continue to be surprised by how many of these incredible vegetables can be produced by a single plant in a very short space of time. We have about 5 courgette plants on our allotment and I would say [...]
Reflecting on the couple of years since we first got our allotment plot it feels like we've really had everything thrown at us so far. From cold snaps and late harsh frosts to the recent record-breaking heat waves, and from periods of drought to the pretty disastrous flooding our plot suffered last year, each have [...]
One of the goal's we've had for our allotment since the very beginning has been to grow as much as we can throughout the year so that we can keep allowing the land to sustain us, at least in part, through the winter months as well as the summer. Obviously we're far from being able [...]
As the weather turns cooler and the frosts start to creep in at night, for most people the main foraging “season” is coming to a close. Of course, the notion of a defined foraging season would have been nonsense to our ancestors who were relying on gathering their food from the wild in order to [...]
I last posted about our allotment in this update back in April and that feels like such a long time ago! At was at the start of April that we had our offer accepted on our new house that we finally moved into two weeks ago. Since my last update we've had a very cold, [...]
Back in November I made a bulb lasagne after seeing the idea in a few places online. I've always loved spring bulbs and wanted to see if we could bring some spring colour into our small, urban, container garden. Bulb lasagnes looked like a great way of fitting a lot of bulb varieties into a [...]
Greetings from plot 66A! When I posted this update in February we were almost knee-deep in water, ice and snow in some parts of our plot and getting very little done. Fast forward a couple of months and although things have been much drier and we have no signs of flooding (almost too dry if [...]
Oh February... This time last year was wet, our plot was flooded in places, but generally only where we still needed to build raised beds. The temperature was largely quite mild, and there was no snow to speak of in London. Oh how times have changed as we're granted yet more - ahem - learning [...]
No I haven't gone mad, nor has our current self-isolation driven us to eating our bulbs for next spring - thankfully we do have plenty of food. A bulb lasagne is just layering up spring bulbs in a container so that you get a lovely succession of spring blooms as one type finishes and the [...]
I know there hasn't been much of a gap since my previous allotment post, but autumn is most definitely upon us so it felt like the appropriate time for an autumn update - winter will be here soon enough! Since my last update in August we've been enjoying our first homegrown onions, more dahlias, plenty [...]
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