Monthly Archives: February 2013

Can’t believe how fast this year is going! Had a great day at the allotment. Vanessa and her dad went to collect more horse muck. Caroline and Jenny worked on preparing beds for  beans and peas and Lesley weeded the … Continue reading →

Great meeting to discuss the success so far and the future.There were lots of people at the meeting although not many appeared in the photo! They were all around the corner sampling the brilliant food supplied: Bread, Polenta, Sausages, Beef … Continue reading →

Time for a spring tidy up! I hope I have done my last ever digging in my veg plot! Dug out some Jerusalem Artichokes and some everlasting sunflowers. I emptied my potato sacks from last year and found an unexpected … Continue reading →

We had a great planning session with the volunteers, explaining Charles Dowding’s no dig system. We then went down to the allotment to start putting the theory into practice. We weeded two beds and covered half of one bed with … Continue reading →

Jenny, Julia, Dave and Ian spent a couple of hours putting up some wire fencing along the roadside edge of the allotment. We hope that this will stop the deers and rabbits getting in and the dogs getting out! There … Continue reading →

If you can’t pick a lovely bunch of flowers from the garden. (The allotment is blanketed in snow!) You might want to read this article about rose growing in Kenya. where it probably isn’t snowing!      

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We have been reading Charles Dowding’s excellent book and have decided to use his method of crop rotation this year to see how much more produce we can get from the allotment!       We will be blogging about … Continue reading →