Growing flowers on your allotment will add colour and provide lovely blooms for cutting, they may even help to boost the health and productivity of your plot by attracting beneficial insects and pollinators. There are so many lovely flowers that can be grown on the allotment such as dahlias and sweet pea. The flowers listed… Continue reading 5 Easy Grow Flowers for the Allotment
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January Plotting
The deep freeze weather has gone and temperatures are more tolerable for working outside. I went to the allotment yesterday to do a spot of tidying, weeding and cutting back. I stayed for around an hour and it felt good to get outside. I would have liked to stay longer but my dog Rosie feels… Continue reading January Plotting
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Jewels of the Winter Allotment
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… Continue reading Jewels of the Winter Allotment
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DIY and Snippets From the Plot
The weather has improved recently with warm sunny spells here and there which is great but it also means regular weeding sessions will become part of the routine again. Weeding doesn't feel like such a boring chore when the sun is shining and the birds are singing. I'm scratching around for things to do before… Continue reading DIY and Snippets From the Plot
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Putting the Zing into Spring
Nothing says "Spring has sprung" more than daffodils. Sunny and bright, the golden flowers pierce through the grey veil of rainy days which have dominated for quite some time. Garden centres are bursting at the seams with flowering spring bulbs at the moment, so if you didn't get some bulbs in the ground you have… Continue reading Putting the Zing into Spring
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Dodging the Rain
Day time temperatures are fairly mild at the moment, so much so that you could be fooled into thinking spring has sprung. Yesterday I planted up a new strawberry bed using runners from the current strawberry patch. The plan is to clear the messy old plants and then extend into the old rhubarb patch to… Continue reading Dodging the Rain
