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Being busy and making plans
We managed another quick trip to the allotment today – but I didn’t take any photos or videos! No, I’m saving it until the job I’m working on has progressed a little more. Dearest Son was working on the pond area as it was overgrown and we couldn’t even see the little tyre pond! There…
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Super Seaweed and Petrifying Pruning
A quick update on the allotment! Despite the minus 1C temperature on Sunday, I told Dearest Son it was time to go get some seaweed. So we did. There is a place not far from us where we can collect it very easily and it doesn’t seem to matter when you go, it’s always cold.…
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Why I WON’T have raised beds & paving!
I might ruffle a few feathers here but here goes… I was recently watching a very nice man on YouTube set up yet another raised bed on his allotment. As he was explaining what he was doing, I took a minute to really look around his plot. It was all raised beds – and concrete…
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A February Weekend on the Allotment
Finally got some progress to show! I’ve been working steadily on one bay at the allotment and I was determined to get it finally finished so we could move on to another area. I am very pleased to say that not only did it get finished, I also got the boundary between it and the…
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Frost makes a comeback!
Our latest allotment trip turned out very productive I was a little surprised and slightly downhearted to open the curtains this morning to see everything glittering in frost. I had planned to go to the allotment and a little bit of freezing wasn’t going to stop me! I filled up the flask to keep Dearest…
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Big thaw = Plot progress!
At last we got back to the allotment I was very happy to get back to the plot today after all the ice had finally melted. It’s been hard to see everyone else on YouTube working on their plots or gardens and sowing their seeds and I haven’t been able to get through a wall…
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Over the weather and under it
Finally, we have started to defrost. I was beginning to wonder if I’d ever feel warm again – and I wasn’t the only one: I haven’t been able to get to the allotment for AGES. I can’t sow anything but this is the time of year to get the preparation done. I have paths to…
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Why my allotment gardening is on ice at the moment
I still have a lot of preparations to make on the allotment plot to get it ready for Spring. The Christmas period usually puts things on hold for a little while even though I keep seeing people on YouTube with their Boxing Day or New Year’s Day videos (I don’t know how they manage that).…
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Hello 2025
I had planned to do the writing challenge for the start of the year but I found I just couldn’t get it started. It has made me realise why I don’t really look back in time and get all reflective. I know we are supposed to reflect and take time to think about what has…
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A strange thing going on in the garden
I took pictures! I walked past one of my tubs the other day and had to do a second take – did I just see what I thought I’d seen? Isn’t this December? We haven’t had Christmas yet have we? Oh so many questions! The cause of all this was the rather sudden and unexpected…
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Harvesting in December?!
I wondered if I could harvest 5 different veg from the allotment (after the storm). We went up to the allotment today (Sunday) and I had 2 jobs in mind: to check for damage after the storm and to see if I could get a harvest of 5 types of veg. Well, the good news…
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No snow or aliens on the allotment today
I’ve heard the aliens have landed, the rest of the country is 10 feet deep in snow and we can expect to be nuked at any moment – my preferred course of action is to go to the allotment and leave them to it. I managed to get a surprising amount of work done today,…
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