I’ve had a great year on plot 5 with winter squash. If I had to criticise any of the varieties grown it would be Turks Turban, they could’ve been bigger with a few more lines of colour chucked in, you know, just for my viewing pleasure. I’m joking.
Shame I can’t say the same for the pumpkin patch. Ah-hem! Just one puny pumpkin to show for my efforts. It’s meant to be blue and much much bigger than the Turks Turban squash currently towering over it, in fact, it should’ve been flipping huge seeing as it was the only fruit on the vine!
If it wasn’t so sweet to look at I’d be spitting pumpkin seeds.
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Step inside the world of allotments, where people grow vegetables on rented parcels of land and drink tea in their characterful sheds. From times of hardship during wartime famine to present day, allotments are great places to connect with the land and each one has its own identity and gardening style.
I’ve had an allotment since 2011 and grow food using the ‘no dig’ approach to gardening. I'm passionate about the fascinating wildlife I share my allotment with and strive to garden with them in mind, creating habitats and encouraging natural predators to help keep my allotment productive.
The aim of this blog is to document the growing year on my allotments, share the ups and downs of allotment life and hopefully inspire others to get an allotment too!
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