Farcebook

  • Mr Bean

    Beans are easy to grow, but if you don’t plant them in the correct place, they can be a bit hard to harvest. I did put up a nice bamboo frame, but then got mixed up with what beans I’d sown and by the time I noticed, the runner beans had turned into a creeping…

  • An a-maize-ing cornucopia of corn

    This week I discover the sweetcorn has done rather well.

  • The Flora and Fauna

    There’s all sorts of creatures living amongst the plants. Everything from wasps and flies to frogs, slugs and centipedes. Also saw this growing amongst the chillies at home…

  • Weeding and tidying

    Now we’re harvesting the various crops that have been growing, it’s a good time to do some tidying. After harvesting all the potatoes, I’ve dug the bed over ready for next year. At some point I’ll throw some fertiliser on it, and let the weather have a go at it too. It’s also been a…

  • Mega potato harvest

    Potatoes are the easiest thing to grow on an allotment. There’s all sorts of fussing and tales people have about how you’re supposed to do it. Dig a trench, fill it with well rotted manure, chit your potatoes, don’t chit them, mound them up, don’t mound them up. The advice is endless and contradictory. All…

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