Celebrating seasonal, homegrown, and wild food
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 [...]
It's National Allotment Week, so what better time to update on progress on our little plot? The last few months have rushed by it seems, and already I'm writing another seasonal allotment update! Having said that, I've just had a read through the update I shared back in May to remind myself where we were [...]
This week marks a whole year since we first got our allotment. Mark and I have been looking back over photographs from the very beginning and although there might still be lots to do, we've come a very long way! I sometimes wonder if we're taking longer and being more thorough than we need to, [...]
Since I was very small, I've always wanted my own vegetable patch. The fact that you can nurture something from seed to something you can eat is still amazing to me. Living in London, it's not easy to come by the garden space needed for a full vegetable patch, so until now I've grown tomatoes [...]
