Sunday is Brassica day!

  • By Alison
  • 26 June, 2009
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brassicas ready to plant out, originally uploaded by pinkpie. The word brassica makes my husband snigger, but this is a picture of my lovely brassica’s ready to plant out this … Continue Reading →

and the rain came down

  • By Alison
  • 29 May, 2008
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Not that you’d know it from my radio silence, but I’ve become white the allotmentophile lately. As the days have lengthened, I’ve been slipping down at 7pm to search and … Continue Reading →

Spudtastic

  • By Alison
  • 3 February, 2008
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I took delivery of my potato order today. I ordered Desiree, but got King Edwards. But it’s not really a big issue, since I only ordered Desiree because they sounded … Continue Reading →

plotting and planning!

  • By Alison
  • 10 December, 2007
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Having taken over the new allotment, I have be busy plotting up my little rotation. Piles of pages of notes, and printouts of advise from different sites was starting get … Continue Reading →

New allotment

  • By Alison
  • 3 December, 2007
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This post is a bit late in coming, but a few weeks ago i took over our new allotment plot. It became available when the gentleman who owned it died, … Continue Reading →

As summer closes, the allotment gets going

I haven’t really updated you with all the goings on at the allotment (the whole two beds!). That’s mostly because the weather has been totally shite, all my tomatoes got … Continue Reading →

Row row your leeks…

The title is poor, I know. But I am so proud of my nice rows of leeks, tomatoes, aubergine, peppers, chilly, and asparagus peas. The nicely turned bed looks very … Continue Reading →

Sunburn is worth it.

Finally a good day, and the allotment starts to take shape. After the beautiful weather for the Summer fair on Saturday, Sunday was just as glorious. Leaving swamped husband to … Continue Reading →

rained off – it’s like wimbledon for vegetables.

  • By Alison
  • 3 July, 2007
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I just read an article in the times about using the balmy nights to get your allotment going. It kept mentioning the long hot days, and I was starting to … Continue Reading →

Welcome to the rainy season

  • By Alison
  • 1 July, 2007
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Well – day one did not go off as planned. The heavens remained open with the trademark English drizzle pouring out. Slightly higher volume than normal in fact. We dressed … Continue Reading →