This growing season has been so difficult up to now. The damp chilly weather has meant rust on the garlic, poor growth even in the greenhouse and huge volumes of slugs and snails!  One thing that has romped away is the raspberries, with my early summer varieties producing already. The strawberries too are producing a great crop but I'm having to harvest them at only semi-ripe stage to try and outwit the snails and slugs.  My potatoes, stalwarts as ever are looking good and I hope that the the healthy looking foliage is indicative of the tuber growth beneath the soil. This year I'm gr ..read more

Well the wet and cold weather coupled with working has delayed the start of our own growing but finally we have our usual windowsill filled with promise! We have leeks x 2, sprouts, tomatoes and chillies x 2 ..read more

Finally, the sun has been out long enough to dry the soil out a bit to dig - our soil is clay and can be far too sticky to dig or concrete! Today it was perfect conditions to finally get stuck into turning over the soil in the beds and start tidying for this year's direct sowing and planting on. I tidied around the over wintering onions too. We have a way to go, but not too weedy just several hours of digging to freshen up our 10 pole plot ..read more

I sometimes boast that I receive no negative feedback or complaints, however, this changed recently! I received this neg feedback. Sadly my trug was not fishished well. Rough, frayed edges to wood, clearly not sanded. Contacted company with my genuine complaint and was treated brusqely. Such a shame as good customer service is also part of a good business! My genuine emailed response to the customer, (that she perceived as 'brusque') was as follows: - Dear Mrs T********e, obviously you will disagree, but to my wife and I, service and quality is absolutely paramount. We believe we do achieve bo ..read more

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Hello, my name is Ed and this is my first time having an allotment!  To start, I'll tell you a little bit about myself. I live in Cottingham on the outskirts of Hull in East Yorkshire, and that is where my new allotment site is. I have grown up in Cottingham, and over the years my Grandad, my Great Uncle and my Mum and Dad have all had an allotment at some point on the same site, so I have grown up reasonably green fingered! Today, I picked up the key to my very own! Nothing very productive other than that happened today, other than having an explore and dig in the mud with my 6 year old ..read more

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