Allotment Garden Diary
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I'm John Harrison and grow veg, fruit, and herbs, keep poultry, write books, and run the site Allotment Gardening. Quite simply this is a record of our successes and failures growing our own fruit and vegetables, gardening, and trying to live the good life.
Allotment Garden Diary
6d ago
First of all, Happy New Year to all my readers. Let’s hope 2025 brings fair weather and large crops. New Year Thoughts & Past Influences Traditionally the New Year is a time to take stock, review the year past and…
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Allotment Garden Diary
3w ago
After Storm Darragh the Deadly had ripped the doors off the big greenhouse and smashed a side pane to fragments, we repaired everything. Happily, I’d enough panes of glass the right size to sort it, so it cost nothing but…
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Allotment Garden Diary
1M ago
This weekend Storm Darragh hit the UK with a red warning being issued by the met office for the coast of Wales and around the Bristol Channel. We had some damage and problems, but generally we didn’t suffer too badly.…
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1M ago
Sunday was the autumn equinox, the beginning of true astronomical autumn. Not the digital newfangled meteorological autumn that starts on the first of September. I prefer the old ways, far better to note sunrise positions on the summer and winter…
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Allotment Garden Diary
1M ago
I was asked the following question about a situation many new allotment holders find themselves in, clearing an overgrown plot. I am clearing allotment that is totally overgrown with grass, weeds, docks etc. I have cleaned two sections. Should I…
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Allotment Garden Diary
2M ago
An unexpected way to grow lettuce for the table, planting garlic and a few onions, an observation about parsley and I’ve been making loads of soup. A few weeks back I planted out some lettuce in the polytunnel’s centre bed.…
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Allotment Garden Diary
2M ago
I like to try new varieties each year. Not new varieties of everything, just a few when something catches my eye. Well this year it was Bulgarian giant leeks and they’re amazing. As the name suggests, they’re very large although…
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Allotment Garden Diary
2M ago
Like many people I used to dislike Brussels sprouts. They were the once a year vegetable served with Christmas dinner. The token three sprouts had to be eaten or no pudding was allowed. They had to be eaten, after all…
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Allotment Garden Diary
2M ago
When we moved into our first house, many years ago now, I was really impressed by the house on the corner of the street. Behind a hedge the garden was filled with cauliflowers, cabbages and other veggies. Climbing up strings…
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Allotment Garden Diary
3M ago
Sunday night the winds were gusting to over 60mph. Thanks to the Met Office we knew it was coming and thought we were ready for it. The plastic chairs on the patio were stacked and laid down so they, hopefully,…
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