Foraging With Mum in the Rain
My mum’s not been herself recently, so I took the day off work for some mother and son time. I was planning a forage, but boy did I pick..
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Winter Allotment Plan 2011 – Green Manures, Sea Weed, Cardboard and Compost
Y’know, it all feels a little Autumnal. I wore trousers and jumper to the allotment yesterday afternoon, and I dug up my maincrop..
The Interim Carrot Report 2011
Back in April, I blogged about my Carrot Plan for 2011. It was a pretty straight forward plan, and included a few little tips I’d picked..
In 2007, I took on a redundant allotment plot with my gardening-mad mum Jan. As all good mums do, she went along with it, but I don’t think she held out much hope.
During 2011, I kept a diary of how much money I save from growing my own fruit and vegetables.
After totalling all my outgoings, I saved approximately £500 over the year.
I made a spreadsheet to calculate these savings - it’s nothing too complicated, as I’m no Excel guru, but hopefully someone else will find it as useful (and strangely fun) as me.
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