Compost, Weeding & Fire!
Moving a compost mountain, weeding and burning a huge pile of wood.
Monthly Archives: August 2007
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Month by Month Growing
Gardening Month By Month is now all online with the last chapter, September being finished.
Save Money – Invest in Energy
Save energy and save yourself money. Investing in energy saving will give you the best return on your money.
Meat Price Increase
Forcast increases in meat prices may not be such a bad thing. Some thoughts on our diet.
Moving Compost, Special Marmalade & Web Site
Moving compost, wild life on the allotment and wild life on the allotment web site.
Skip Diving Success
A real find in the skip - decking, no less. Bit more of the harvest home and building the compost heap up.
More Compost Arrives!
Another compost delivery, computer blues, making marmalade and those slugs.
Club Root Resistant Brassicas
Clubroot is the worst problem facing brassica (cabbage tribe) growers but the answer lies in new clubroot resistant varieties of cabbages and cauliflower
Planning Ahead
Trying to cope with a waterlogged plot but a few more tomatoes for the food factory.
More Food Articles and New in the Shop
Upgrade to the allotment shop seeds section and new articles in allotment foods online now.
Sad Day on the Site
Sad day on the site with the death of a former plot holder.
Sweetcorn, Tomatoes and NVS Talk on Cauliflowers
Great sweetcorn and growing prize winning cauliflowers despite clubroot.
Weeding, Bopping, Sweetcorn, Blight and Cleaning Your Computer
Weeding, harvesting sweetcorn, potato blight news, bopping on the plot and how to clean your computer.
Allotment War over Biodiversity
Allotment association split over use of land. Should allotments expand at the cost of natural habitat.
King Edward Potatoes and Cauliflowers
Harvesting King Edward potatoes that were hit by blight and planting out cauliflowers.
Problems on the Sites
Problems with the allotment web site and problems with children causing damage on the plot.
Intruders on the Allotment, Sorting the Greenhouse
Fixing the fence to keep the little darlings out, goodbye to the last San Marzano tomato and an amazing cloudburst threatens a flood.
Bit of time in the Greenhouse, Feeding Brassicas
Bit of time in the greenhouse where the tomatoes are finally ripening and feeding the brassicas.
Floods to Bees. We Are All Doomed!
Although the floods have destroyed crops a much more serious threat to agriculture and horticulture is the reducing bee population.
Making Jams & Jellies
A new set of articles on making your own jam in the allotment foods section. Val's been busy!
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