Category Archives: Organic gardening

Richard & Kaivalya’s July allotment diary: the beauty of the Lake District, and allotment news. Continue reading →

Richard & Kaivalya’s allotment news: showing love to plants; Weather; More Spring; and Allotment Diary. Continue reading →

Spring; pictures and the Allotment Diary

As the days get longer the wild animals become more and more active. The birds are singing and building nests.
Another thing that happens in spring is that animals have babies. We don’t have room on our allotment for a flock of sheep, but we couldn’t resist putting in a photo of cute lambs with their mummy!
We have dug in an awful lot of manure over the last month, very good exercise as long as you look after your back.
The tadpoles have hatched and are now scattered throughout the pond. It is very exciting to watch them.
In the greenhouse we have made a raised bed out of bricks for the tomatoes and cucumbers. Continue reading →

Bhuta Yajna is the last sacrifice; it is to serve all living beings as embodiments of the Universal Being.
Feeding the Birds (Again)
Here is our allotment covered with snow and hoar frost.
Here are our swedes looking a bit battered by frost and snow… Continue reading →

Here is a photograph of 2 blue tits on our peanut feeder on the allotment…
The allotment is clear of snow now, and looking a bit battered with the weather,…
We are finally able to do some maintenance on the allotment now that the weather is milder.
We are building a new brick planter for our tomatoes in the greenhouse.
We want to put a pond in this winter. This will hopefully help the local wildlife by providing a breeding place for several species.
…plan what you want to do in the spring and summer… Continue reading →

Soil improvement

The soil is warming up with more sunlight hours. This is what all the plant and seedlings need.
We have been having free manure drops to the allotment site.
The leaf mulch, which we talked about last month, has been riddled and it is fantastic.
Yes finally we have the pond in. After many arguments and mistakes it was put in two weeks ago.
If you have not already done so get those tomato, chilli and any other greenhouse plants seeded up.
A friend has just bought herself two cordon Victoria plum trees and two blueberry bushes. These latter two are going into containers…
Nesting, nesting, nesting. The birds are going mad… Continue reading →