We Grow Our OwnThe trials and successes of life on our allotment

Today was time for some long overdue weeding at the allotment, but since it was a Bank Holiday, I had to do what everyone seems to do on a Bank Holiday and do some DIY … lottie style

The chillies and tomatoes were loving the weather today, but it was too hot to do much at the allotment, and it was touching 50 degrees in the greenhouse at times today!

I potted on all my chillies, and sowed lots, including some Papalo seeds, which is used in Mexican cooking.

I still need to dig over the other half of my plot, but that will have to wait until next weekend!

I decided to bite the bullet this weekend and plant up the rest of the broad bean and sweetcorn plants that were growing too big for the greenhouse.

Since the weather was awful yesterday, I spent most of it in my greenhouse potting things on.

I wanted to experiment this year with different ways of growing the seventeen different varieties of chillies that I am growing.

This year I’m trialling the Quadgrow system from Greenhouse Sensation

This weekend’s plans were scuppered by the typical Bank Holiday weather, so the idea of moving all of the seedlings down to the allotment to be planted had to be put on hold for another week.

I desperately need more room in the greenhouse, but the temperature dropped like a stone everytime it rained or started to hail.