I come before you today with some good news. Yesterday I wrote about my one visit to the allotment so far this year and the destruction that the weather had caused. Well, that exciting adventure out was about 10 days ago and writing about it got me excited about growing stuff again so, with the sun shining and an afternoon off, I wandered on down there again.

Is spring in the air? If you judge these things by the actio...

It’s that time of year again. The time of year that sees an envelope flop through the letter box from the council pointing out that it is time to pay the rent on the plot. It’s a gone up this year as well, a rather extortionate £15.25. God lord, that’s for a full year mind you.

There is a line in the letter that amuses me. It says, in bold, “Reminders will not be sent out this year so therefore if we do not rec...

I have finally made it back to the allotment. There has finally been a break in the not-letting-me-get-to-the-allotment weather. After weeks of frozen soil and snow followed by a lot of rain, today is just grey. It is cold but not cold enough for the soil to be impenetrable to my fork.

 It has been about a month since I had last been there so I expected the worst. I expected all my crops to be dead, yet I also thought t...

Happy New Year to one and all.

Sorry I haven't written anything for a while but what with Christmas and all I haven't really had the time. That and yet another weather moan. During November I complained about the rain quite a lot because it stopped me getting out there.

I did manage to get to the allotment 2 days before Christmas so that I could get some veg for the seasonal meals, however the soil was frozen solid. I could barely get the fork into the ground. Past episod...

Whilst some of you are out setting fire to the, recently built, homes of hedgehogs and throwing an effigy of a Roman Catholic, as someone on radio 4’s PM described your bonfire’s Guy (terrorist my friend, terrorist), on top, I have a question for those who have remained indoors. A question that the internet failed to answer. Ok, it was a very, very quick search, whilst at work this morning but still, no answer. I did find the a...

It’s raining, it’s pouring and I don’t have to water, which is nice.

I ...