Anyone following us on instagram might see various photos where I’ve put sticks and twigs all over the soil, so I thought I’d put down a bit of an explainer! We have a regular visitor to our plot; a grey tabby cat. It’s a friendly enough cat who occasionally comes over to say hello when…

As the days are now getting shorter and unfortunately the sun seems to be playing hide and seek, it’s now getting to that time when the remaining tomatoes need to be picked and bought home to ripen. We had a lovely hour at the allotment on Sunday collecting tomatoes which were still not quite ready…

On my arrival at the allotment I usually carry out a quick inspection to see how everyone is doing and behaving. I popped over to the purple sprouting brocolli and saw that someone or something had given it a right old nibble. On closer inspection I saw millions of little black eggs all over the…