Happy hump day everyone! I can’t honestly believe how fast the weeks are whizzing by… I’ve not managed to get to the allotment much in the past few weeks but I did pay a visit last week. Finally, the beautiful globe artichokes have started to flower and I’ve been bee watching… 🙂 Lottie Land…
We all love a bargain and gardening don’t we? 🙂 When the lovely people from Grow2eat.com asked me to have a look at their website and discount directory, I jumped at the chance. Grow2eat.com have a great website. It’s so easy to navigate. You can find everything for your gardening needs in the categories listed.…
Yesterday we walked through the allotment and paid a quick visit to the plot…. Wow! I couldn’t believe how beautiful it looked. The poppies swaying in the breeze, the bees buzzing around and blobs of shiny red strawbs ready for harvesting 🙂 As we were leaving a huge ominous cloud made its way over……
Hi everyone 🙂 I’m sorry it’s been a while. I honestly don’t know where the time is going! It’s nearly half way through the year?! (No way!) I’ve been really busy this month. I’ve been working hard in my Creative Corner and I took part in the Manchester 10K, which I ran for Beechwood Cancer…
I don’t know about you but I’m loving these brighter evenings. Everyone has come out of hibernation and spends more time down on their plots. The lovely sunny weather has lifted my spirits 🙂 I can’t wait for the height of the growing season to come. Little lottie plot 21a looks a bit on the…
Phew! March has flown by 🙂 I’ve been busy in my little creative corner, illustrating vegetables and fruit for a brand new online program called Veg Plotter. I can’t wait to try it out 🙂 In the meantime here’s the veggies I’ve created… I’d love to hear what you think of them 🙂 Check out…
With our allotment being quite small, I always plan carefully what we grow in our limited space. It’s surprising what you can grow in such a small area. I’ve been thinking though… wouldn’t it be great to have some fresh salad leaves for our sandwiches, or strawberries that I can just pop into the garden and…
There should only be one 5 o’clock in a day, that would be PM not AM! but last Saturday was an exception to the rule. It was The Edible Garden Show weekend so we caught an early train 🙂 I’ve been looking forward to going since last year. I won the tickets through a facebook competition 🙂 Fantastic…
Last Wednesday, I gave a talk to a local horticultural society in Timperley. I was contacted by a lovely gentleman called Norman last October, who had seen my blog. He asked me if I’d like to talk about my allotment and I thought – superb! He penciled me in the diary for March 2015. Que…
So… plan bee… I call it plan bee because when I picked up my seed order last month, it appeared I had the little pollinating marvels on my mind! I’d bought so many flower seed and hardly any veg seeds 🙂 Not that I’m complaining though 🙂 It’s going to be a pretty sight in…
This weekend me and Mr.Bee visited a local potato day 🙂 Who’d have thought there were so many different varieties of spuds? We were spoilt for choice really! Armed with a list of the potatoes on offer, we walked around with our box ready to fill up. There were herbs, vegetable seeds, fruit trees and…
It’s here… loads and loads of fluffy white crunchy snow! Buckets of the stuff! 🙂 It’s the first real snow we’ve had in about 2 years and I love it 😀 The traffic is chaos and the country comes to a stand still but it’s so quiet when it snows… I took myself out, armed…
It felt good today… Squidgy muddy mud on my dottie wellies. I had a spare hour to pop down to the allotment to get some muck shifted on to our plot. I really needed some time to myself to have a think and just enjoy the winter sun – it felt good to be back…
This weekend we tootled down to the plot to put in some spring cabbage and Kale… we got side tracked! 😀 It was actually a great and exciting couple of hours harvesting and checking out the produce that we’ve still got growing. We’ve never really had much luck with carrots. Last year we put them…
It’s been a while since I’ve been down on the plot. I’m not sure why, I suppose if I’m being honest with you, I’ve felt like I’d lost my mojo a little bit. It was so busy on the build up to the Allotment Open Day early this month, I just needed to rest. I did…
The rhubarb is loving the manure! Grow my tasties 😀
I’ve been itching to get to the allotment this month. The weather hasn’t been very helpful and I’ve been feeling a bit on the rough side with a very annoying cough. It’s thankfully clearing up now and I hope to get on the lottie this weekend even if it’s for a couple of hours. Thursday…
It’s been a lovely day, some much needed happy sunshine 🙂 Me and Jassy tootled past the allotment on our walk today. We were lovely and toasty with the sun keeping us warm. I could see people pottering on their plots… I’m itching to get on there, I might go this weekend if the weather…
We’ve got leeks on our plot still 🙂 Hoping to make some soup soon!
A Happy New Year to you all. We had a quite one, which gave me time to plot and plan what’s going to be happening down on lottie plot 21a in 2014 🙂 I nearly passed out when I’d finished! Phew looks like we’re going to have a mightly busy year. I had to make…
It’s what having our little lottie plot is all about. From day one we said we want to grow veg that you would find on our Christmas dinner plate. I have to say this year was even more successful than I’d hoped 🙂 Last year we had sprouts and a cabbage, but this year… We weren’t…
We had lots to take home for our dinner on Christmas Day 🙂
It’s really kind of one of our allotment neighbours to give a swede to us this weekend 😀 Yum Yum
Happy Halloween… Have a spooookkkyy time! 😀
The allotment is starting to get ready to be put to bed for the winter. However the site isn’t going to sleep just yet… We still have lots of bursting colour around the different plots 😀 I’m not a pink person myself, but these are truly stunning magenta! 🙂 Lottie Land Girl Kaz xx
Today marks our two year Happy Plot Day 😀 I can still remember how excited we felt making our flask of tea. Putting on our new wellies and heading down in the rain to the plot, ready to ‘dig in’ 🙂 We did really well considering that it was our first year ‘growing our own’…
Me and Jassy got absolutely soaking wet through on our walk before. We thought we’d planned it perfectly… have a run on the field, then take a nice picturesque walk back though the allotment… the timing was all wrong! 😀 We found the weather has battered our sunflowers. Blustery autumn winds and harsh downpours of…
The nights are drawing in fast 🙂 it’s great to spend the evenings snuggle up in the house, candles on and a nice cup of tea in hand. I got my copy of The National Allotment Society‘s seed catalogue at the weekend… pens at the ready! We can order our veggie & flower seeds though…
Lottie Land Girl 