Our first non-rhubarb decent harvest – so much fruit! Over 1.5 kilos of strawberries & just under a kilo of raspberries. Plenty has been frozen for jam making etc. We’d even got some purple sprouting broccoli, potatoes and a few more courgettes! The beans are doing really quite well, almost up to my neck now!
Today the first sets of berries have started to ripen and ‘joy of joys’ courgettes are appearing.
I'm Tim, a 31yr old ex-Allotmenteer. My wife and I used to have a small 5 rod plot in South Essex where we grew all manner of veg. I'm also involved in brewing the odd keg of beer.
When getting down the allotment got too hard and our circumstances changed we bought a house with a 65ftx30ft garden, which we're converting into a mini orchard and veg beds.
We get up to some weird and wonderful projects - we've built a small boat, a pig roaster (powered by a windscreen wiper), a chicken run, raised beds and try our hands at all sorts of stuff getting us closer to being 'self sufficientish'.
The hope is to introduce chickens soon and hopefully let them free range during the day.
If you want to contact me, you can do so here