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
1d ago
This cold weather is creating problems. The greenhouse temperatures have fallen to three degrees some nights so I don’t want to plant out the tomatoes and cucumbers yet. This means that the Vitopod heated propagators are overcrowded in the potting…
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Allotment Garden Diary
4d ago
Finally, at last, the weather has changed. Blue skies, sunshine and warm enough at points to not need a jacket. Now the race to catch up with jobs that should have been done weeks ago begins. Beds being cleared, sowing…
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Allotment Garden Diary
2w ago
Started the week with a few hours in the potting shed. Ended with some sort of bug getting me. The strong winds and general sogginess making outside tasks impracticable. Frustration meter now at 150% as some of the outside jobs…
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Allotment Garden Diary
3w ago
Never Say Never! The other day I gave up on my Hispi cabbage seeds that should have been sown by 2018. I’d sowed 5 packets with an average 55 seeds per packet into three half-sized seed trays and only 3…
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Allotment Garden Diary
1M ago
Once again my plan to start planting potatoes on St Patrick’s day hasn’t worked out. There’s been some dry days but the ground is so wet that working it isn’t sensible. The traditional Irish planting day makes more sense for…
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Allotment Garden Diary
1M ago
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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Allotment Garden Diary
1M ago
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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Allotment Garden Diary
1M ago
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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Allotment Garden Diary
2M ago
Envii, market leaders in biological and organic products for gardeners and horticulturalists, have just released two new organic products. Maximato Tomato Feed and Allgrow All Purpose Feed. I’ve worked with Envii for a number of years now and they have…
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Allotment Garden Diary
3M ago
It’s been a grim week as a friend unexpectedly died. We’d planned to get together this summer but it is not to be. You always think there will be time, another day, until there isn’t. Website Work I’ve been really…
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