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...

Just because it is cold and wet (really wet) doesn’t mean that nothing is happening at the allotment.

 Well, when I say the allotment I really mean my kitchen and back garden. I was supposed to go and plant some seeds today but the rain was so hard that I decided against it. The plan involved early carrots and salad things (spring onions, radishes, salad leaves) under my ugly but useful plastic cloches but the weather put pay to t...

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...

Sorry I haven't written anything for a while but have you seen the weather out there? Bloody Awful. It seems to have rained for about 5 weeks, constantly. I had standing water in my strawberry bed. The river is constantly threatening to burst it's banks but has, as yet, been contained. Rather than building raised beds I have been building an Ark.

Anyway, today I made it to the swamp in which I attempt to grow things today. During another dash between the showers a week or so...

I want to start with a question, (I do that quite a lot I’ve noticed. Should stop) have you ever seen a mole alive? I ask because I’ve just got back from the allotment where I found yet another dead mole. I find at least one a year. They are very pretty and soft looking but they are always dead. Are moles ever actually alive or was this mole just playing dead? You know, with the maggots being in on the joke and stuff.

 At ...

Up and out bright and early this morning and I had a plan. Not only...