There have been talks recently on Twitter and blogs about finding the time to work on allotments. I’m not sure if the tough growing year has anything to do with it, but there seems a lot of people out there are struggling to keep up. Helen, The Patient Gardener, made an interesting point when she …
I made a start on the Patch from Scratch this weekend. I did some clearing and digging. In fact, I did more than I thought I would. I’m not looking forward to tomorrow morning. I’m getting to that age when I start to ache after a day’s graft. Anyway, I thought I’d blog about my …
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Having dug out the Real Men Sow money saving spreadsheet recently, something struck me. In amongst all the harvest weights, different veg and money-saving calculations was a simple but great thing: the dates that I harvested every single crop for a whole year. Whether it was gooseberries or garlic, each trip to the plot was …
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