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Allotment Diary (March – Week 2)
Allotment Finances We’ve harvested a total of £805 of fruit veg this year We’ve spent a total of £396 this year, mostly one time investments What we’ve harvested and eaten We harvested a total of £143...
View ArticleMarch harvest highlights: calabrese, romaesco, radish, spinach, onions
A quick update on some of the first veg we are harvesting this year. In some cases we’ve harvested from the polytunnel already, but these are outdoor/cold-frame highlights. If you are new to my...
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Managing Arthritis With An Allotment Centric Life
In this post I cover an oft-requested topic. How my allotment centred life has helped me manage Adult Onset Still’s Disease (AOSD) and Fibromyalgia. AOSD is a very rare auto-inflamatory disease, as a...
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Allotment Diary (March – Week 3)
Allotment Finances We’ve harvested a total of £960 of fruit veg this year We’ve spent a total of £416 this year, mostly one time investments What we’ve harvested and eaten We harvested a total of £155...
View ArticleWhat’s In Your Allotment Store?
This video takes a quick look at what we still have in our allotment store. The store is definitely depleting, but more importantly as the weather warms, the quality of the stored product degrages...
View ArticleWhat to plant in a polytunnel
In this video I go through the allotment year from the perspective of the polytunnel. I explain some of the key transitions and how to take best advantage of the space you have. Key to my approach is...
View Article3 Year Anniversary Allotment Tour
It’s been three years since I planted my first few seeds on my allotment and a year since I put the poly on the new polytunnel. A lot has changed, let’s take a look around. If you are new to my...
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Allotment Diary (March – Week 4)
Allotment Finances We’ve harvested a total of £1150 of fruit veg this year We’ve spent a total of £426 this year, mostly one time investments What we’ve harvested and eaten We harvested a total of £190...
View ArticlePlanting Early Kale for Spring
A quick update on my plans for making sure that we don’t run out of brassicas during the spring ‘hungry gap’. I do a quick review of the current situation, show you my full range of brassica seedlings...
View ArticleHow To Harvest A HUGE Amount of Organic Fruit and Veg
In this video I go through some of the basic strategies that we follow to harvest a huge amount of organic fruit and veg off our 250 sq meters of growing area. If you are new to my allotment videos you...
View ArticleIt’s Time To Start Planting Again!
A quick update on what we’ve been planting in the last week or so. After so much time sowing seeds, it’s lovely to start planting them in the open ground again! If you are new to my allotment videos...
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Allotment Diary (March – week 5)
Allotment Finances We’ve harvested a total of £1323 of fruit veg this year We’ve spent a total of £446 this year, mostly one time investments What we’ve harvested and eaten We harvested a total of £173...
View ArticleWhat I’m Sowing And Growing In April
March is my busiest sowing month, so it’s quite a relief to get to April. I have dozens of seed trays full of healthy plants now and many of the February and early March sowings are in the ground....
View ArticleBuilding 3 Allotments in 3 Years and Loving It
It was only three short years ago now that I got my first allotment plot. Debbie wasn’t so sure, as she looked at the scrappy patch of weeds, but it was too late, I was already in love! In this video I...
View ArticlePreparing for Climate Change on the Allotment
This video is the introduction to a series on climate change. It covers some of the impacts of climate change on our allotments in North West England and what we can do about them.
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Allotment Diary (April – Week 1)
Allotment Finances We’ve harvested a total of £1503 of fruit veg this year We’ve spent a total of £458 this year, mostly one time investments What we’ve harvested and eaten We harvested a total of £180...
View ArticleGrowing early beans, peas and carrots – just for fun
We are self-sufficient in veg and seasonal fruit so if I want to eat something, I have to grow it. Sometimes I take this seriously, because I really want food to eat every day, sometimes it’s just a...
View ArticleGrowing early tomatoes – just for fun
We are self-sufficient in veg and seasonal fruit so if I want to eat something, I have to grow it. Sometimes I take this seriously, because I really want food to eat every day, sometimes it’s just a...
View ArticleFirst Harvest of the Early Potatoes
We are self-sufficient in veg and seasonal fruit so if I want to eat something, I have to grow it. Sometimes I take this seriously, because I really want great food to eat every day, sometimes it’s...
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Allotment Diary (April – Week 2)
Allotment Finances We’ve harvested a total of £1730 of fruit and veg this year We’ve spent a total of £458 this year, mostly one time investments What we’ve harvested and eaten We harvested a total of...
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