Sunday 23 August was the perfect day to have a barbecue and present the cups for our best plot competition which was won by Jeremy. Corina, with her two half plots, won both best newcomer and best half plot.
It's been a pretty miserable year for veg but the fruit has been magnificent!
Eddie grows elephant garlic round areas to deter unfriendly insects. They're not heat treated so tend to bolt. Advice...
So far, 2024 has been a very difficult year except for potatoes which seemed to love the excessive rain!
It must have been a mild winter as the broad beans sown directly into the ground last November are flowering well.
This year’s AGM was held in the communal area under an angry sky on a cold Saturday morning. On the plus side, it...
Swarms of bees are not uncommon in the allotment but this one is in a rather unusual place!
Ann used Barbara’s excess raspberries with foraged sloes to make jam, which not only got first prize in the Banstead Horticultural Society Autumn show but also a blue ribbon awarded for an outstanding exhibit.
Here is the recipe.
Early summer in the allotment. This is the time when we start to harvest: broad beans, cherries and first early...
Early spring in the allotment means daffodils and blossom, forced rhubarb and digging potato trenches.
Congratulations to Ann Shore and Ramon Farooki for their entries in yesterday's autumn fair.There were only two blue...
Autumn allotment photos by Gil Ben-Ari
Two months of drought have resulted in lower yields and smaller veg this summer but the figs and grapes are the best...