Plot 7 Marsh Lane - Our Hungerford Allotment Blog
Hungerford allotment blog - grow your own, harvesting and vegetarian cooking. Enjoying allotment wildlife, weather and other things that catch my attention. Enjoying time on the Marsh Lane Allotment site in Hungerford, Berkshire. A record of successes, failures and a handy reminder for me. From 2017 each post title brings a song to add a little extra music to the world - enjoy!
Saturday, 29 March 2025
I gotta Feeling
Sunday, 9 March 2025
Start the Healing
After losing February - details here - we’re ready to start now. Looking on the bright side, at least we were out of action through a dreadfully wet month so we probably didn’t miss that much plot-time. It’s been great to have a few short visits to the plot during this warm start to March.
These anemones are the only colour on the plot so far. We were pleasantly surprised that the weeds haven’t grown too wild in our absence. The leeks haven’t grown either, which is rather disappointing, so we’ll probably pull them quite soon but there may be a few worth harvesting.
There are a few signs of Spring in the hedge, but it’s still early. The new growth on the sedum is appearing at the base of last year’s stems. I’ll chop the old stems off at our next visit. A little bit of weeding needed in that pot too - maybe Jamie can do that to help his rehabilitation (I’m not sure I’ll get away with that suggestion too often 😉)
Yesterday (8th March) we sowed the following and they’re under the grow-light in the hallway:5 x Redcurrant Tomatoes (several seeds per pot)
20 x Lark Sweetcorn (in root trainers)
1x All Green Bush courgette
Korn provide the song title.
Saturday, 8 March 2025
February Came and Went
Sunday, 19 January 2025
Paranoid
The squashes are going to provide a squash tunnel again. I’ve bought some Sharks Fin Melon Fig-Leaved Gourd seeds. They sound interesting don’t they, they’re a courgette rather than Winter squash. We’ll probably grow two kinds of climbing Winter squash and two other types of bush courgette.
Sunday, 5 January 2025
Party’s Over
Tonight is the twelfth night; the decorations are now down and our living room looks rather bare. Yesterday evening we got snow, so that was good timing as a few Christmas lights were still up.
We had to go for a walk in it as we weren’t expecting it to stay long.Jamie made bubble and squeak to eat with a nut loaf I’d made - thanks to Janet, my hairdresser, for the recipe which included cashews, walnuts and chestnuts, with a splosh of red wine. Delish!
Sunday, 29 December 2024
That was 2024
Well 2024 passed by in a whirl - a rather wet & windy whirl... I’m pleased to say we enjoyed two weddings, no funerals, a Euros football final, a happy general election plus a lot of working, gardening, reading and picnics. Here’s a quick-ish summary, with my reading list at the end.
January
We had a few frosty days, with temperatures down to -9° but mostly just wet. Oh dear it was very wet, with severe floods in nearby towns and rivers bursting their banks. The allotment was very soggy so not workable but we managed to harvest leeks and parsnips.
February
Another wet, grey and windy month but we got some digging done and planted our ‘orchard’ - 3 tiny fruit trees. And we had a HAHA workday. Plotholders happy to actually get outside to do something constructive - clearing Ivan’s communal fruitcage.
Nice to see the return of old friends 😉