NomeGrown

While I don't really want this to turn into a food blog, there's nothing like a great recipe to pull me out of blogging apathy and g...

My garlic harvests to date have always been rather pathetic - small bulbs and few of them. But this time round I tried overwintering my garl...

At the allotment recently we noticed we must have left a few garlic bulbs in the ground last summer - they were popping up again like little...

I am enduring day eleven of intense sore throat, swollen glands, stiff neck and upper body, exhaustion and misery. Apparently antibiotics wo...

Every potato harvest inevitably comes with a few specimens damaged by sunlight, slugs, the fork that dug them up, or even by couchgrass root...

I feel all springy - what a strange time of year to be bringing seedlings into the world. The seeds I've been sowing last week and the w...

We've harvested our onions recently, and they're spread out to dry at home. A disappointing result, as usual, despite the fact I bou...

Spent a fab afternoon at the plot on Friday, catching up with weeding and planting. I've been a bit nervous about planting my potatoes...

I've been rubbish at taking photos recently. I haven't taken any of our garlic and onions, which have settled in extremely well in...

Eddie and I have had a week off together this week - aaaah, bliss. And what great weather for it! Of course, we've taken the opportunity...

Well, I have learned to make pickle, chutney and jam this year. I thought I'd top it off by learning to make a good old-fashioned double...

This is how our allotment looks at the moment: Gah! But don't be fooled; it's not all nettles and fat hen. There's asparagus, ca...

This is our onion and shallot harvest. Well, most of it - there were a few onions still putting some effort in, which we thought we'd le...

So. Here's what we've been up to the past few weeks. We finally dug the bottom end of the plot - the only bit we'd never tackled...