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

Apologies again for this being a few days late, but here’s my guide of what to do on your plot in September.

I know this is a little bit late, but then again the growing season is late this year as well, so here goes anyway ….

Time for a little bit of a catch up I think, since I have been a bit stingy with blog updates recently!

This week, since my greenhouse was becoming increasingly overcrowded, I decided to treat myself to a polytunnel, so that I would have more room to grow what I wanted.

We adopted four ex-battery chickens yesterday from those wonderful people at The British Hen Welfare Trust.

After a back breaking weekend, and sunburn on top of sunburn, we finally finished ‘Chickenopolis’

July is usually one of the driest months so a lot of time may be spent watering. You can reduce water loss and save yourself some time by preventing water loss. Mulching with a layer of organic matter will help preserve moisture but may encourage slugs so you will need to take action against them.

After weeks of waiting, our allotment site finally got a hive this weekend.

Even better news is that I’m one of the five people to be chosen from our allotment site to be trained up as beekeepers.

Both myself and @luckylottielisa have been busy bees over the weekend.

As you will have picked up from yesterday’s post, I’m a big fan of Cafe Direct’s ‘Sow Your Own’ campaign.