Allotment Garden

The only reason I am triple digging the climbing French bean bed is because I have some brushwood from the hedge alongside my allotment.  I ...

I was the only idiot down the allotment today.  It was very cold.  I went up to finish off digging in the manure into the sweet pea bed.  Th...

Today was a clearing of the sweet pea bed time.  The canes had been taken down and stored securely in one of the empty compost bays.  I stil...

Still doing a prodigious amount of cropping.  A good harvest this year. Now you might think that I am taking an interminably long time dig...

Yesterday I dug about half of the pea bed and today I finished it off.  Mick was good enough to give me the weeds that he was collecting as ...

The soil temperature was 15 o C today.  I'm not too sure whether this new allotment is an allotment too far.  I took out another two t...

I still double dig but my allotment would be waterlogged if I didn't. It has two springs on it. The only way to divert the water is to r...

If you look at the video suggestion "A farm for the future": http://transitionstourbridge.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/film-a-farm-f...

I finished moving the slabs today.   Now they are all upright after being checked with the bubble.   I found out where the water was going...

  If you think that I am going to give you a list of quick ways of controlling a weedy allotment then this is not for you.  Turning an all...

This is one of my rants on bonfires.  It is quite amusing to think of how my thinking has changed lately because of the debate around Terra...

I continued to dig today. Did about half of Dad's garden. I will try to finish it tomorrow. Collecting worms from where ever I can ...