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
2d ago
June has started with dryer weather than May but, even when it’s sunny, it’s cool. Daytime temperatures here running in the low teens with night times dropping to single figures. This unseasonably cool weather brings its own problems. The runner…
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Allotment Garden Diary
1w ago
With water meters and summer hosepipe bans, collecting and saving rain water for the garden has become a must. Many greenhouses and sheds now boast a water butt, saving rainwater for the dry periods. But there is a problem… Left…
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Allotment Garden Diary
2w ago
I get quite a few emails on the lines of ‘Is it too late to plant..?’ And when we’ve had a wet and cold start to the season the number of growers behind with things goes up. The thing is…
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Allotment Garden Diary
2w ago
A scorching weekend (by North Wales standards) which helped me catch up on some jobs although there’s still lots to do. At this time of year we’re running to stand still! Then, following the rule of British Summer, two fine…
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Allotment Garden Diary
1M 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
1M 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
2M 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
2M 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
2M 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
3M 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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