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Build Chickenopolis and they will come …
Since we want to have chickens as soon as possible, (allotment site rules say we can’t have them until we have been on the site for a year) we thought it was time to start clearing the space where...
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Ring of fire …
The lottie took a back seat this week, as I had to pot on the numerous chilli plants from the 19 different varieties of chillies that I’m growing this year. I was worried earlier this year that the...
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Making good use of the things that I find …
As you will have picked up from yesterday’s post, I’m a big fan of Cafe Direct’s ‘Sow Your Own’ campaign. So taking their ideas to heart, I started to have a look around what the previous tenants of...
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Summertime, and the living is easy …
Both myself and @luckylottielisa have been busy bees over the weekend. Despite only getting our allotment plot in January, and also all the late frosts doing their best to kill anything we took the...
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That’s the vampires taken care of then …
It seems as if Autumn is already giving way to Winter in my part of the Midlands, so I have been digging up all those lovely summer crops of sweetcorn, late beans, etc, and my mind has been turning to...
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Oh the weather outside is frightening …
The weather this weekend put paid to all my plans, including a visit to the East Midlands Food Festival. However, I was cheered up by the first of the new seed catalogues arriving in the post. I...
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Sloe Gin …
Now that the first frost has arrived, I thought it would be a good time to share this recipe, especially since I found a motherload of sloes when I took my dog on a different route when I took her for...
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Garlic – better late than never …
As you’ll know from one of my previous posts my favourite ingredient next to chillies is garlic. I made the fatal mistake of not sowing it in the last week of November, and then as we all know the...
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How To Grow Potatoes …
As it’s getting towards the time of year when people think about planting potatoes, I thought I’d post my thoughts about how to get the best crop of home grown potatoes. Before planting your potatoes,...
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Allotment Update …
It’s been gorgeous weather on a Bank Holiday for a change, and I hope you managed to spend as much time in your allotment or garden as I have. Since I’m now the allotment site secretary, I was able to...
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