Perpetual Spinach is My Favourite Allotment Crop
I know we need the rain. I really do. But by Jove, it’s really miserable. In an attempt to cheer myself up, I nipped to the plot after..
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My Heroic Herbs
Back in September, I blogged about my little rosemary and thyme plants, and wondered as to whether these young guns would make it through..
Am I a New Traditionalist and Keeping Up With the Allotment Joneses
This week, Tom at the very funny Hapless Gardener blog posted about the state of his lawn. Tom opened up and admitted that his lawn was..
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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