Lottie Life: allotment, food and family

The plant swop at our village hall this weekend was a great success. I took surplus borage plants, lettuce, wild rocket and red cabbage seed...

Urgent dash to the lottie with the strimmer coz for once it WASN'T RAINING! Managed to avoid the plant labels but did inadvertently stri...

It's my day off but it's too cold, wet and windy to go to the lottie today. I need to finish weeding the raspberries. The original c...

I have been busy sowing seeds in the greenhouse this month. Amongst other things I have borage, red cabbage, purple sprouting broccoli, holl...

I've heard people say that farmers are never happy - always complaining that it is too wet, too dry, too hot or too cold. Well I am star...

We have had a bit of a break from the lottie, garden, greenhouse and dog this week as we spent Easter visiting my parents in Devon. On Easte...

I have read and noted what the gardening books say about putting support in place for flowers and shrubs to grow through, rather than trying...