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French beans or No French beans?
Just a short visit to the allotment this week, to pick a few things quick tidy up and check over to see what’s what. The French beans planted a few weeks ago are looking very sorry for themselves very...
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"Know Your Onions"
It’s been a good year for me anyway with my onions, normally with wet weather I find onions not to do so well, but this year I have had a bumper crop, only had 4 onions go to seed and they were all red...
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Potato trial: second early potatoes
Today is the turn of the second early potatoes, those of you that regularly read my blog will know that my first earlies were a bit of a disaster. You can read about it here…I didn’t hold much hope for...
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"I'll be back!"
To all my regular readers,I haven’t had chance to post much lately, what with the Olympics (working at a Hotel) and then a family holiday things will resume as normal soon thanks for being patient
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Potato trial the Results................
PWEW!...what a summer it’s been there hasn’t been enough hours in the day to do it all so I apologise to you all for my lack of updates over this period, but I am back now and there is lots to...
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Strawberries, squashes and a good old cup of Rosy Lee
For the first time in ages today I spent a whole day down the plot, but boy will I be paying for that tomorrow!, as I strike the keyboard, I can already feel my arms and legs stiffening up with the...
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Are Carrots worth the Hassle??
Although I have only had the allotment for 2 seasons now, I have always grown carrots at home in tubs or in my old veg bed.Each year the same results carrot fly get to them in some way shape of from....
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Green Tomatoes anyone?.........
This year’s challenging weather has thrown another of my normally reliable crops into chaos, my tomatoes, normally one of my best crops which start from mid-July and runs (weather permitting) into...
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Swede Sucsess......
I know most people all year have been banging on about how bad this year has been for growing veg and how they can’t wait for next year to come, but I just want to tell you about my poor showing this...
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The first visit of the new year……
It’s been a while since my last visit to the allotment, about 4 weeks to be exact, I went on a scouting mission today to see how bad the soil is and boy its bad, my allotment site is on a slight hill...
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Plot 58 seed Give-a-way 2013
The last 2 weeks have been very frustrating for me this cold weather has scuppered my plans on a number of occasions to get to the plot so I have had to find other ways to get a few jobs done for the...
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Raspberry Care
I just been looking back at my blog post “Fruitilicious” last year, it’s about how I don’t really have any success with soft fruit or any fruit for that matter! I was looking back because over the last...
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what's your new Season Resolution?
This time last year I had begun in earnest with sowing and getting things ready for the coming season on the plot. Potatoes were chitting, broad beans sown, onion seeds had shown their heads and I had...
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Compost Plot 58 Style…..
I want to talk compost in this post, like most plot holders, I make my own compost recycling all my waste materials from the plot, but I also compost at home, and have dome for a number of years now,...
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planting plan 2013
Today I have added the planting plan for 2013 I have tried to keep it simple this year and grow less varieties and this year I will only grow what I know will do well. I am going to do a trail with a...
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My first Purple Sprouting Broccoli
It was a big day this week down the plot, as I knew my purple sprouting Broccoli would be ready to pick; I got a bit excited on the drive to the plot! Last year my PSB was a disaster firstly I planted...
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let the chitting Commence…..
Well were off, yesterday saw the first action for the new growing season, I went to my local garden centre and selected my seed potatoes for the coming season, I am being a bit more conservative this...
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A year in the planning…
It’s been a week since my last visit to the plot, and today I started a Project that has been a year in the making, like I have said before my Parent’s work in a factory where they dispose of lots of...
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To cover or not to cover that's the Question….
Not much action down the plot this week, the family has been hit with this winter bug, my youngest daughter has had it the worst, so daddy day care comes before Allotment action. I wanted to get the...
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Strawberry Meringue Roulade
Today I fancied doing a spot of baking, as getting to the allotment is totally out the question And I love baking when there’s nothing else to do! I had some left over egg whites from last night dinner...
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The Great British Weather!
Well what weather it was down the plot today, started off foggy and quite cold then by 10am I was walking about the plot with a T-shirt on it was according to the thermometer at the plot 13°C then by...
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Mr Rotivator!
It’s been a while since my last post, there was not much happening down on plot 58 as it was too wet or covered in snow, the action at the allotment pretty much came to a standstill.But the last 2...
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A Quick seed update for April….
First off this week I just want to quickly talk about a Walk for life I am doing on the 12th May it’s a 22km walk for a local charity called Farleigh Hospice they do some fantastic work and I want to...
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Pumpkin Hundred Weight
Hello readers it’s been a while, it’s been a busy few weeks first off I competed my charity walk on the 12th May a 13 mile walk from Malden to Chelmsford in Essex I was part of a team and in total we...
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Brassicas, Sun & Raspberries.
It’s been great having a bit of time off work especially that the weather has been so kind to me, I was able to get down the plot a fair bit.Most of the planting in now done with the exceptions of a...
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