2021 - My Blog

Allotment Tales: December 2021

December 28, 2021December 28, 2021Allotment Tales

As December arrived and the first year ended at Alexandra Allotments it was interesting to reflect on what had worked and what had not! Some vegetables may be more economical started as plug plants rather

Allotment Tales : November 2021

December 14, 2021December 14, 2021Allotment Tales

This month I have barely been to the allotment due to bad weather and illness - a couple of visits to tidy up after Storm Arwen and to move things around. The Christmas holidays should

Allotment Tales : October 2021

November 6, 2021November 6, 2021Allotment Tales

This month was busy with lots of 'end of the growing season' work to do at the allotments - cutting back the wildflower area and collectings seeds from that plot and the other flowers was

Allotment Tales : September 2021

October 4, 2021October 4, 2021Allotment Tales

Despite the crazy weather there has been plenty of produce on most of the plots to harvest - strangely, many allotment holders do not seem to be actually gathering their home-grown food. One lady volunteers

Allotment Tales : August

September 4, 2021September 4, 2021Allotment Tales

The peculiar weather continued with a wet start to August and plenty of unseasonal wind too, followed by dry cloudy days. A distinct lack of sunshine has definitely had an impact on harvests! Once the

Allotment Tales : July 2021

August 3, 2021August 3, 2021Allotment Tales

Apparently July is the most exciting month on an allotment with a profusion or fruit, flowers and vegetables, or so my allotment planning book advises! We have certainly had an abundance of certain things -

Allotment Tales : June 2021

July 4, 2021July 4, 2021Allotment Tales

June's first half was mostly very warm and sunny, seeing lots of growth on the allotment plots and kept everyone busy watering - it was lovely though to finally have some delicious things to harvest!

Allotment Tales : May 2021

June 5, 2021June 5, 2021Allotment Tales

Any hopes of Spring arriving were soon dashed - as the weather pundits have repeatedly told us, May was a cold month! Alexandra Allotments took a few more batterings from the northerly winds and the

Allotment Tales : April 2021

May 5, 2021May 5, 2021Allotment Tales

Spring had arrived...or so we thought, but April brought another challenging month for the plot-holders. Gone was the mud and heavy clay - now replaced with windswept dust and cold wind s. With barely any

Allotment Tales : March 2021

April 5, 2021April 5, 2021Allotment Tales

A cold, grey late Spring has proved challenging for the new allotment holders, although the chiily breezes and lack of sunshine has not put off progress - all but one plot has now been started.