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LATEST ARTICLES ( 87 )

• What a Difference a Year Makes.

  

  Having an allotment lets you go through a lot of emotions, the advertised wisdom is that a lot if not all are positive and uplifting. Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2023

• Our Allotment in March 2022

  

  March a month when you finally see some flowers, but most importantly a month when we celebrate our lasses birthday and our wedding anniversary. Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2022

• Our Allotment in Feb 2022

  

  Our lass has a lot more faith in me than I do in myself. We completed the fencing which had taken a while but it was a bit at a time job, do a couple of posts... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2022

• Our Allotment in January 2022

  

  They sing about don't fence me in and wanting land lots of land. There are times though when you want to know your borders. January was fence repair and... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2022

• From Storm Arwen to the End of the Year 2021

  

  Our first full year came to a close with the possibility of everything being blown away, a category red storm was heading our way and although we were on the... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2022

• As We Prepare for the Coming Seasons.

  

  Life all around us seems to be forever in the pursuit of looking backwards, dissecting what has happened but alternatively an allotment does help you look... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2021

• One Year on Down Our Allotment

  

  We have been on our full sized allotment for just over a year now and our time upon it has been an interesting growing year. We grew lots of onions where we... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2021

• You Are Dealing a Lot with Time Travel When You Have an Allotment.

  

  Who is to say there is a month between posts or that I had written this a month ago and this has appeared now? Well this sort of reasoning is similar to when I... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2021

• You Know It is Going to Be a Good Day Down the Allotment When......

  

  When we first venture onto our plot for the day ahead, we find ourselves surveying for changes. Those alterations can be negative, such as a new crop of weeds,... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2021

• A Day for Collecting Our Bounty Down the Allotment

  

  Quite a few times when we have been going down to the allotment our first sightings of change is the remains of a leaf stork to flowers or a sudden appearance o... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2021

• Blackleg Potatoes

  

  One thing I have always written is that you need to take lots of photographs and this is another reason as to why you do this. It helps you to remember just... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2021

• Straw, Slugs, Allotment, Slugs, Cauliflowers, Slugs, Potatoes, More Slugs, Oh an...

  

  You may have noticed a theme to the header, the bane of every allotment holders life. Slugs! I did actually google to see what are slugs good for? (Absolutely... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2021

• Grand Day Down at the Allotment.

  

  Well you wait a few weeks for a blog post and then you get two in one day. Bank holiday weekend and whilst you will see photographs of beaches being swollen wit... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2021

• When the Weeds Start Growing Start Sowing.

  

  The header to this post has been inspired by a quote from Adam Frost (shame he doesn't present more on Gardeners World) and the past few months have been... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2021

• Allotments Can Help You Grow Yourself, Not Just Fruit and Veg.

  

  There has been a few weeks since the last blog post, not because we haven't been down to the allotment but because you do discover that sometimes it is not all... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2021

• Plenty of Sunshine, Plenty to Report, Still Cold at Night.

  

  Recently there has been a lot of sunshine, it has been strong enough to bring on the sun tans but not enough to push the thermometer outside the green house... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2021

• Determined Indetermination

  

  We have been up to the allotment over the past few days, our lass has been very busy moving her babies along from one tray to the next, hardening off in the col... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2021

• Day 62 - Dealing with Allotment Inertia.

  

  This seems to be a difficult feeling to describe and all the words available seem to be negative which is the one thing I do not want to be. Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2021

• Day 61 - Ability to Time Travel Required.

  

  There is a saying "That a society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they will never sit under". Now we have no plans to pop our clog... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2021

• Day 60 - Do Two Warm Days Make It Springtime?

  

  We have now experienced two warm days in a row, it must be spring? mustn't it? Everything is taking hold and starting to grow, especially the weeds. Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2021