Feb
2015
2015 Allotment Plan!
The 2015 allotment plan is now up and ready to read, Hooray! I’ve created a new page along the top so it’s easy to find, and I’ve just posted a little video where I talk through my plans as well.
I am so unbelievably excited for the year ahead and cannot wait to start sowing seeds and watch them come to life! I’m longing for lazy days up the allotment watching the bees buzzing, frogs hoping around, picking raspberries straight from the cane and being surrounded by sweet smelling flowers. Spring is just around the corner however, there’s big plans and some interesting varieties to grow this year, and not forgetting the anticipated arrival of the chickens (I will post more about them later, I promise!)
But for now, I thought I would share all my plans, hopes and dreams of what my allotment will look like this year and I hope you all enjoying reading (or watching!) x
Nikki
February 17, 2015 at 6:45 pm (1 week ago)I love your allotment plan, a little work of art, I definitely have allotment plan envy
Katie
February 18, 2015 at 11:25 am (1 week ago)Hehe, thank you!
I always go over the top when it comes to planning, I have sketchbooks galore too!
x
Helen
February 17, 2015 at 7:43 pm (1 week ago)I’m so pleased I’ve found your blog. Already, after just a few minutes looking around, I’ve been inspired. Looking forward to seeing the arrival of your chickens. I started with six and now have fifteen. They are addictive.
Katie
February 18, 2015 at 11:22 am (1 week ago)Hello and welcome!
Haha, I’m slightly worried that’s going to happen to me too. Although I really only have room for 4 so I’ll have to control myself until my dreams of owning a small holding come true
diana wessel
February 17, 2015 at 10:02 pm (1 week ago)Hi Katie,
I love your plans for the spring planting, and can not wait to see your garden growing. I would love to have a big vegetable patch, but for now I will enjoy yours.
Have great fun playing in the dirt…
diana
Katie
February 18, 2015 at 11:21 am (1 week ago)H Diana,
Thank you so much, I went a little overboard but I missed it so much over Winter!
I wish we had a big garden so I could grow vegetables at home. Have you acquired about getting an allotment?
Katie x
Annemieke Wielinga
February 18, 2015 at 9:24 am (1 week ago)hi Katie,
good to see you sitting behind a mountain of seedpackets. i am not allne in this then. The blue poppy is really nice but difficult to get the right soil composition, maybe in a pot?? Ginger is nog very difficult bit obviously not hardy, you could try japanese ginger
Rosie
February 18, 2015 at 6:29 pm (1 week ago)Really glad I found your blog! I’ve just acquired an allotment too, it’s completely covered in weeds at the moment and feeling a bit daunted, but watching your videos and reading through your posts has totally inspired me to get going and make it the most awesome allotment on the site :-). Thank you!
Mike
February 18, 2015 at 6:31 pm (1 week ago)A wonderful sketch, art really; do you create the same for your Dad’s allotment / shed? I share your excitement too, as I shoveled snow again today I thought about my seed order that should arrive soon. I even managed to find munchkin pumpkin seeds, do you start yours indoors or sow directly outdoors?
Jennifer Williams
February 18, 2015 at 9:51 pm (1 week ago)Katie,
How inspiring your plans are! Such lovely drawings! I really enjoy seeing all of your seed packets. So much potential! And how much fun the chickens will be. I can’t wait to “meet” them. I look forward to seeing how your planting goes this spring. And I also am excited about your possible new shop venture with your dad. My daughter, who also reads your blog, was very excited about you selling some of your items. She is hoping that you sell some of your handmade leather books, like you gave your dad for Christmas. She loves to garden and draw, so she would really like one of those books.
Lynn
February 19, 2015 at 8:44 am (1 week ago)I love your sketchies Katie. How big is your plot?
Katie
February 22, 2015 at 11:07 pm (4 days ago)Thank you Lynn, it’s roughly 13 metres by 7 metres. About a third the size of an a standard sized plot.
Gayle
February 20, 2015 at 1:54 pm (6 days ago)Katie, my neighbor has chickens and surprisingly they really don’t smell bad at all. I think you will be delightfully surprised Also, I grow garlic chives in my garden. They bloom late summer here in North Carolina and the bees love them! I so enjoy your videos and your blog. Looking forward to warmer days, a new season, and your tulips.
Katie
February 22, 2015 at 6:03 pm (4 days ago)Oh well thats good to know
I cannot wait to grow the garlic chives, I was meant to grow some last year but I forgot to sow them and then time caught up on me.
Thank you so much, that means so much. I am so ready for Summer now too! x
Ciara
February 20, 2015 at 9:30 pm (6 days ago)Hi Katie, just watched your latest YouTube vid. It was really marvellous, I think this is the best one yet, I love the planning stage too. Good luck with the ginger, I will be very interested to see how that goes. I am planting my potatoes in large tubs this year to try and maximise yield per meter and to foil the dreaded slugs which decimated my crop two years ago. Keep up the great work and I am looking forward to seeing more of your hand made items, I love the allotment diaries and your chalk board on the shed door.
Katie
February 22, 2015 at 3:29 pm (4 days ago)Hi Ciara and thank you so much! I really love the planning stage and I do tend to go a bit overboard
I’m very excited about growing ginger, ginger beer here we come!
Oh no, those pesky slugs! I’ve heard people get good crops from pots, I didn’t get many last year but I think that was because I didn’t water them as much as I should have.
x
Lindiloo
February 24, 2015 at 6:54 am (3 days ago)Hi Katie, just found you on YouTube and really enjoying watching your progress. It’s fired me up to get out there and start. Just a little help with the running order of your videos would be great though. Perhaps you could give them numbers. I’m definitely going to try those cute pumpkins. Thanks for the help you have given. L