Argh!!! The Birds!!!

Another trip to the allotment today. The red cabbage plants I planted the other day have been decimated (by slugs I think, but I think there may be some other prolific pest at large). Worse still, two of the currant bushes have been almost completely stripped of fruit. It wasn’t ripe yet so the birds that [...]

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What you need to start on an allotment

Well, I’m no expert, but this is what I have learned so far: For the Allotmenteer Enthusiasm and determination! Decent Gardening shoes/wellies Proper Gardening gloves A notebook/diary and pen/pencil A flask (for tea/water) Starting out and standby tools A tape measure Garden twine/string Bamboo sticks or other posts for marking out Wheelbarrow or at best [...]

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My first harvest!

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 [...]

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I feel like I am getting somewhere!

Well, last Sunday I decided I really need to brave the weather and go and do some allotmenting. The previous two weekends had brought snow, and the forecasts for Sunday were for rain showers and hail. However, it turns out that the weathermen got it wrong. I trundled over to the plot and decided to [...]

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