Allotment Growing Photo History

A photographic history of 7 of our 8 years growing on allotments in Crewe, Cheshire along with some photographs of our garden and some I just thought you'd like to see! It's quite interesting to compare year against year.

We've moved now to a windy hillside in North Wales and are starting a new veg plot from scratch. More information here: Our Smallholding

You can follow our adventures here in our allotment diary

Random Allotment Photos
from the Gallery

The Grand Allotment Tour - Hungerford Road
September 2005

Sweetcorn and Courgettes
May 2006

Top of Allotment Plot 5
June 2005

Halloween Pumpkin with the kiddies
January 2006

Compost Unloading
August 2007

Construction site
May 2010

Weeds on Larry\'s Plot
September 2008

Potato Bed on Plot 5
April 2007

 

 

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In the Potting Shed – Seed Sowing

A busy weekend in the Potting Shed while the weather was awful means I have got a lot started undercover. I feel that the garden year has actually got going now the sowing is underway. What I’ve sowed. The weather

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Planning – Scheduling the Seed Sowing

Planning the gardening season is one of those tasks that gets a bit easier with time. The first stage is simply to decide what you want to grow. There’s not much point in growing things nobody in the family likes.

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Early Potatoes Planted, Mowing, Cleaning

We’ve finally had a period of dry weather, even sunshine. The sun may have been shining but the wind has been howling, gusting up to 50 mph which makes it feel freezing cold. Still it’s allowed us to get some

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