Tag: allotment

  • Fennel flowers

    I bought a herb fennel plant in our first year as allotment holders – I hadn’t realised quite how readily it spreads its seeds! I now have multiple plants, but unless they’re in the way of other things I’m trying to grow, I let the new fennel plants grow too. Normally the fennel reaches about…

  • Hopping around on the allotment

    One thing you have to be careful of on the allotment, is where you put your feet. Not because the local cats might have left a deposit, but because the grasshoppers might end up underfoot! This one jumped onto the rhubarb leaves as I was walking past, and I spotted the next one on a…

  • Wildflowers on the allotment

    On my allotment, I’m allowed to use up to 25% of the space for flowering plants. I’ve not got anywhere near that much space devoted to non-edible flowers, but I do have a small flower section to entice the pollinating insects. As well as the lavender plants, there’s a fennel and some mint growing near the…

  • Daisy chain

    Daisy chain

    On my allotment, I’ve devoted one area to flowers; most of them are wild flowers from seed sown a year or two ago, but one in particular has taken a liking to that section, and grown larger than it ever has before. The Ox-eye daisy flower looks just like a normal daisy you’d find in the lawn,…