Posted in my allotment, tagged allotment, Head Teacher, project, cost-effective, water butt, compost heap, compost, Potager, growing your own, raised beds, polytunnel, orchard on May 17, 2008 | No Comments »
A letter was distributed last week by my daughters school. It including a mention of wanting more volunteers for their gardening project. Naturally, I was very keen to find out more and immediately contacted the school to offer help.
I visited the school, and, it seems that they have some quite ambitious, but very do-able ideas [...]
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Having visited the site back in January, and various phone calls chasing matters, we finally received our tenancy agreements in yesterday’s post. Two agreements for the two plots. The Veg plot is only £15 until the end of December (including water charge). The fruit plot is £42 until the end of December, including water charge [...]
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Posted in my allotment, tagged garlic, bindweed, netting, onions, Sweet Cicely, Stevia, Aubergine, beetroot, courgette, sweetcorn, winter, dig, hoe, radish, bean, pak choi, peas, flea beetle, rainbow chard, bird control, french, cannellini, borlotti, runner, rhubarb, red cabbage on May 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Having spent quite some time now sorting out my allotment plot, I finally had the opportunity of tasting one of my own-grown vegetables. I was thinning some radishes, and popped one in my mouth! It had little taste but I put that down to it only being the size of a bean!
It’s all going quite [...]
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