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Yearly Archives: 2014
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Bees – good news!
Some good news on bees from Wales and a way you can help bees and yourself at the same time.
Pickles Plot Thickens!
Q. 'When do you know a politician is lying?' A. 'His lips are moving!' More on the allotment sell off
Pickles – Leave them plots alone!
Turns out the government wasn't thinking about selling off allotments after all. So some good news!
Planting Potatoes & Onion Sets
Great weather - planting out potatoes and using salt and soot on the onion bed.
5 Minute Job – Repairing a Gate
One of those 5 minute jobs that took an afternoon plus some lovely meals from the last leeks.
New Site & The Great Onion (and Garlic) Disaster
Finished a new web site and a friend arrives to help. The onion and garlic crop wiped out.
Grow Your Own Chocolate!
Great start to April with the weather and I've learned how to grow chocolates!
Happy Spring Equinox
This is spring? Thinking long term and coping with getting older. Plus the poultry blog is back online.
Best Laid Plans
Great plans sunk by the weather not living up to the promises of the forecaster who promised a week of sunshine and we got about a day and a half.
Wind Power
When we moved from gentle Cheshire to rugged Snowdonia, I knew we'd find the weather a bit challenging. What I hadn't reckoned on was the wind's power.
What to do with a Fallen Tree
What to do with a tree felled by the storms.Turning a disaster into a benefit.
Storms & G M Potatoes
We've escaped most of the storm but concerns for a new GM potato. Good thing or bad?
Safe Crop Growing after a Flood
The question is when will it be safe to grow crops after a flood? Not an easy one to answer but some advice that might help
Allotment TV Back
Allotment TV back on the site, more updating and a rant about false information on the net
New articles on the web site
Recovering from the cataract operation so busy working on the web site. Added articles on general topics, allotment foods and more
Storms & Cataract Operation
Storm after storm but my main concern has been my cataract operation.
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