Jewels of the Winter Allotment
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Jewels of the Winter Allotment

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I do appreciate a beautiful cabbage, especially now when little else is available from the allotment. A light dusting of frost adds to the beauty don’t you think? It almost breaks my heart to harvest them.

To me, cabbages are the jewels of the winter allotment. Apart from the usual green savoy I also grow January King, a frilly-leaf type tinged with pink/purple. Isn’t it pretty?

Throwback to the time I grew a cabbage larger than me!

I put a seed order in with Real Seeds this week, a purple winter cabbage named Saint Michael of Verona caught my eye and the seeds magically dropped into my basket. Oops. They look utterly gorgeous and I look forward to growing them.

Brassica are a complete faff to grow with regards to keeping them protected from butterflies and pigeons, also slug and snail gangs hanging around at night (total thugs they are), but at this time of year when little else is left to harvest you’ll be glad you gave them the extra effort.

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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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