Tag: growing

• Oh My Squash!

  

  My first successful squash harvest!

  Katrina

  26/10/2017

  Autumn, Vegetables

  Allotment, Autumn, butternut, crown prince, food, garden, gardening, grow your own, growing, gyo, harvest, pumpkin, pumpkin day, spaghetti squash, squash

• How I Made Home Brewed Cider Part 1

  

  Happy Apple Day! Since today is the day that we, in the UK, celebrate the versatile fruit we all love eat, drink and grow, I thought I would share my home-brewing cider process so far.

  Katrina

  21/10/2017

  Autumn, Fruit, How To’s

  Allotment, apple, apples, brewing, cider, diy cider, english, garden, gardening, grow your own, grow your own food, growing, home brewing, kitchen garden, nottingham, organic

• Polytunnel Update! [+VIDEO]

  It’s been almost a month since my last polytunnel post, when I planted out the tomatoes with string supports. Everything is growing well, the tomatoes are loving their support system and have lots of flowers and fruits. I keep the polytunnel door open permanently to prevent blight even though it’s quite cool. I also feed…

  Katrina

  07/08/2017

  Fruit, Polytunnel, Summer

  Allotment, blog, english, garden, gardening, green fingers, greenhouse, grow your own, grow your own food, growing, kitchen garden, nottingham, Polytunnel, tomato

• Greenhouse Update (with video!) 

  The small greenhouse is becoming very crowded! Only thing is, I still have even more (yes, I probably over did it a little..) pepper and tomato plants growing at home, eager to be moved into the new polytunnel. Fingers crossed it will *finally* go up this weekend – that is IF the weather holds out.

  Katrina

  25/05/2016

  Polytunnel, Spring

  Allotment, courgette, food, garden, green fingers, greenhouse, grow your own food, growing, kitchen garden, organic, progress

• They’re In!

  I’m so relieved to finally get the potatoes in the ground! It was a really nice day to do it and even though we had quite a sharp frost last night the ground was soft enough to dig. More cold nights are forecasted so I’ll need to get hold of some garden fleece in the…

  Katrina

  17/04/2016

  Vegetables

  Allotment, garden, grow your own, growing, organic, potato, potatoes, progress, Spring

• Undercover

  Last Friday – Good Friday in fact was such a gorgeous day to be on the allotment. The first day of the year to be comfortably wearing shorts (YES i know!) and the perfect day to put up my mini greenhouse..or so I thought. Over the Easter weekend rather windy storm – ‘Katie’ they called it…

  Katrina

  01/04/2016

  Polytunnel

  Allotment, garden, green fingers, greenhouse, grow your own, growing, progress

• Potato Plans

  Preparation The potatoes are chitting away nicely and while they develop knobbly, vivid shoots I’m frantically clearing and digging what will be their enormous bed to grow in. The bed is about 6m x 3.5m which is at least four times the size of what I grew my spuds in last year. The lack of space…

  Katrina

  23/03/2016

  Vegetables

  Allotment, food, garden, grow your own, growing, potatoes, Spring

• New Season | Introduction

  It’s been a freakishly mild, wet winter – in fact the warmest since records began in 1659! This explains the confused flowers and trees that don’t know if its winter or Spring. We’ve had daffodils flowering together with snowdrops and crocuses as early as February, and even the cherry blossom is in bloom despite the…

  Katrina

  08/03/2016

  Spring

  Allotment, blog, garden, gardening, grow your own, growing, progress, winter