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Garlic – done differently!
Instead of just planting garlic in the ground, I tried a few different methods to get it growing and I’m delighted with the results. A couple of years ago, on the allotment, I planted out all my garlic and waited patiently. Sadly, all – and I mean ALL of it, rotted away in the cold…
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Garden Challenge – 7 Days 7 Jobs: Day 1
I came up with the idea of doing a job a day in the garden, for 7 days. Those little jobs, the ones we keep putting off because we’ll ‘get to it someday’ – you know the ones, right? Problem was – my back. Yes, it had been strained a bit on the Sunday before…
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Great Results From the Garden
The harvests are starting to come in now, thick and fast. I feel unprepared if I’m honest. I am still clearing, weeding, tidying and planting out and yet, the plants that were planted out yesterday (feels like), are starting to give out some of the best harvests I can remember. I took some photos to…
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Car trouble + garden issues = a difficult week to find the wins
I have tried, I swear I have. I’ve prepped beds, weeded like my life depended on it, checked the weather forecast…frequently but I still haven’t got the plot fully planted. I have finished putting up the supports for the peas & beans and even got peas planted out. When I went back up to put…
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Busy days & Weird weather
This is a strange time of year in a way. I’ve been busy sowing seeds, preparing beds and doing all those garden sort of jobs for a while now as some of you will be aware. I’ve put some things into the allotment but not many due to the weather. We’ve had a few warm…
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A-Frames and ‘Rustic’ Pea Supports!
It’s all about the legumes on the plot Can you guess where I’ve been? Yes, the plot was calling. Actually, I thought I’d done a post earlier last week to fill you in but apparently not…tut tut. So to put things right: Early last week, we went back up to the plot and I put…
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Veg, Vibes & Chicken Wire!
Allotment update We went to the plot on Sunday even though I wasn’t quite feeling in the mood. I don’t know what it was but I’ve heard it described as ‘meh’. When we got there, I tried to focus on what actually needed done and one thing I had to do was water the broad…
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Rat Traps & Tomatoes
Making Garden Plans! I’ve been a busy little bee since we last spoke. After the whole rat incident, I have taken steps to reduce the possibility of that happening ever again. Tomorrow (Friday), I’m going to pick up some chicken wire which someone is very kindly giving me. There is enough that I’ll be able…
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Teeth pulling to garden gratification
It’s been a bit of a week……again! Well my bloggy friends, it’s been one of those weeks. This isn’t the first time we’ve been here so I’ll spare the whole attempt at a witty intro and get right down to the nitty gritty. A month ago, you may remember, I was a nervous wreck as…
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Hot and windy August day on the plot
I managed a trip to the allotment today to take up many bags of compost before the car goes in for it’s MOT tomorrow (which will be today when this post goes live). It was a very hot and windy day on the plot and I had the intention of sorting out the compost bins.…
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Perfect Pea Productivity!
We did a very quick harvesting from a couple of our pea and bean plants and the results were surprisingly positive. We only have a few snow pea plants and a short row of maincrop (kelvedon wonder) peas plus a few broad bean plants. The other day we nipped up quickly to the plot and…
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Allotment improvements
We’ve been working pretty hard in the allotment and the progress is really beginning to show, at least to me it is. This is how the brassica area looked before our two visits last week: A big job and there is a third row to the right which you can’t quite see but believe me,…
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