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• Easy Butternut Squash Soup

  

  A thick, rustic soup, bursting with autumn goodness! Perfect for a quick light lunch or warming snack, this recipe is super easy to make, particularly if... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Bugs and Bees

  

  My allotment plot and garden welcome many species of beneficial wildlife, such as hoverflies, lacewings, bees, ladybirds, butterflies (yes, butterflies are... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Allotment Shed Bunting

  

  The bunting I sourced for my very loved allotment shed has arrived, and I’m really pleased with it. The bunting images are prints of vintage seed packets, I... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• October Allotment Photos

  

  I spent a lovely afternoon at the allotment yesterday. A dull and chilly day but I didn’t feel the chill working on the plot. It was a day of weeding, harvestin... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• More Reasons To Visit My Allotment

  

  My dad cleared out items of his old fishing equipment recently, he doesn’t go anymore and his shed needed a sort out. He gave me his little gas camping... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Hen and Hammock Fertilizer T Bag

  

  I was kindly sent a fertilizer T bag by Hen and Hammock to try. The T bag is a natural hessian bag with nettles inside, to use it simply immerse in a water... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Hello Autumn

  

  Summer has truly packed up and left today. It sure is chilly outside. Crispy leaves desperately clinging for dear life to trees blow around everywhere,... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Shed Painting

  

  I painted the allotment shed today. I fancied a change of colour. The new paint is called Mediterranean Glaze by Cuprinol, I’ve admired this colour for a long... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• September Allotment Photos

  

  I’m coming out of my blogging hibernation, it’s been a while since I’ve visited the plot let alone post about it. And I’m feeling guilty. Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Sarah Raven’s Cutting Garden Journal Book Review

  

  Our allotment drew lots of attention and admiration during the height of summer, the new cutting area dominated and stole the show with punchy... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Moody Broody

  

  One of our ex battery hens went broody about a month or so ago. Since then most of my time has been spent looking after a very moody hen, trying to ‘break’ her... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Tea and Scones on the Allotment

  

  Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC) Awareness Week 12th – 18th May 2014 I was asked to take part in Tea and SCones for TSC blog tour, to raise awareness of Tuberou... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Kitchen Garden Experts Book Review

  

  Kitchen Garden Experts combines growing tips and delicious recipes by celebrated chefs and their head gardeners at twenty of the UK’s most exciting... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Gertcha Rabbits!

  

  Our allotment site is fenced with chicken wire to prevent rabbits from entering from the railway and fields beyond. As predicted, rabbits are finding ways to... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Potting on Tomatoes

  

  My tomato seedlings are at the stage where they need to part company with their seedling buddies and move into larger accommodation on their own. When the secon... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Growing Happy Carrots

  

  We haven’t done very well with growing carrots at the allotment, our plot in its 3rd year of being worked (previously uncultivated land) is still quite... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Planting Fruit Trees

  

  Yesterday we planted new fruit trees in the orchard, much later than we’d planned due to weather conditions making the ground too boggy to dig. Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Plot of Jam

  

  This is plot 29E, a half plot on our village allotments and 3 plots in a line away from ours (can you see our blue shed in the distance?). Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Fairy Eggs

  

  I found 3 fairy eggs and 1 normal size egg in total during the first 2 weeks of the new rescue hens being here. Fairy eggs are tiny and yolkless eggs and are... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Back on the Plot

  

  The weather has been settled and sunny for many days now, a pleasant respite from the rain allowing many hours of work at the allotment to prepare the ground fo... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2014 GARDENING, HOME