Tag Archives: allotment

Propped up plums

Friday 8th August 2025, 4.55pm (day 5,097)

Propped up plums, 8/8/25

Time for the annual update on the plum tree, which shed one of its limbs a couple of weeks ago, though we did save most of the fruit, currently ripening (but obviously not still growing) on windowsills at home. Had I not made efforts to prop up this big branch it would also, surely, have fallen by now, but those efforts seem to have been successful. There are a lot of insects around this year, so we are in a war of attrition as to who gets the bounty first, but we’re working on it.

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Putting Joe to work

Monday 4th August 2025, 2.45pm (day 5,093)

Hedge trimming, 4/8/25

Yesterday’s journey home was done with Joe in attendance. Up on the allotment, the hedge needed trimming. A conjunction of child, hedge and the necessary hardware was facilitated. All parties seemed reasonably satisfied with the outcome.

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Fulfilling its bee-ing

Sunday 29th June 2025, 1.40pm (day 5,057)

Bumblebee, 28/6/25

Must have had at least a dozen attempts at capturing this example of insectile wiggliness. Don’t know why we call them ‘bumblebees’ though — they don’t seem to bumble to me, they are very systematic. Just this much time at each flower. Which is why, once I finally got the rhythm of it, I got the shot.

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Plumlings

Friday 2nd May 2025, 2.30pm (day 4,999)

Plumlings, 2/5/25

Going on the number of plumlings that currently festoon the tree, I predict that come around late July, the whole thing is going to fall over. Should it stay standing, even 2023’s glut (forty-four pounds of fruit) may be surpassed.

Hello, it’s day 4,999. I’d better not forget to get the camera out at some point tomorrow.

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At the top of the steps

Sunday 15th December 2024, 2.30pm (day 4,861)

Mrs Tiggywinkle, maybe, 15/12/24

These are the steps leading down past our allotment, which is on the right, behind the hedge. This porcelain figurine took up residence there a few months ago, thanks to persons unknown, and now seems quite at home. I’m saying it’s Beatrix Potter’s Mrs. Tiggywinkle, but C says: “that’s not a hedgehog, it’s a cat. Or a bear.” Well, whatever: none of these species wear clothes and carry around watering cans, but that’s anthropormorphism for you I suppose.

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Diversity of beetroot

Sunday 24th November 2024, 2.50pm (day 4,840)

Beetroots, 24/11/24

These various beetroot all came out of the ground within a couple of feet of each other. I’m sure they were all from the same pack of seeds…. I like the diversity of colour, also that this shot does imply they had all been in the ground ten minutes before it was taken: which was, more or less, the case. I think some pickling is in order.

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Apples and rose hips

Friday 13th September 2024, 3.30pm (day 4,768)

Apples and hips, 13/9/24

The plums are eaten and gone, but there is still some free food to be found in the garden. The apples are not very big and a little tart but they will do fine in a crumble. I suppose I could have moved the prominent leaf before capturing this one but hey, it’s all part of the natural vibe.

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Frog, ready to move on

Monday 22nd July 2024, 3.50pm (day 4,715)

Allotment frog, 22/7/24

Disturbed while I was weeding the garden, this little fella deigned to pose for its close-ups, but its purposefully outstretched front leg suggests it is definitely seeking to move on and continue its own day.

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The loganberries’ annual shot

Thursday 11th July 2024, 3.05pm (day 4,704)

Loganberries, 12/7/24

Agricultural records (i.e. this blog) of the loganberry plants on our allotment date back to 2018. Lately they have started making regular appearances in July. They are welcome on the plot: they do produce edible, nice fruit and require almost no time and attention whatsoever in order to do this. The latter characteristic is a definite plus.

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Plum blossom

Tuesday 2nd April 2024, 2.00pm (day 4,604)

Plum blossom, 2/4/24

I forget exactly how much our plum tree produced last year but it was at least 20kg (or more than 44 pounds): its all-time record for a single harvest. It won’t do this again in 2024, simply because it never does have two glut years in a row. But the blossom’s out, at least.

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