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 result the information on the web is drawn from a small sample of patients and isn’t very...
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 allotment videos you might find a bit of context useful. We live in the north west...
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 worth of veg this week, excluding everything from the store. We had 39 meals...
Usually when I made a video the sun’s shining, there’s not much wind and I’m all smiles: full of the joys of spring! I thought I’d just make this video to provide a bit of balance. When you’re self-sufficient in veg, you need to harvest in foul weather too, growing...
I’ve made a lot of improvement to the water capture and storage on all three plots with the aim to be self-sufficient until the water is switched on in April and after the water is switched off in October. We’ve also upgraded the rainwater capture and storage at home. These...
Allotment Finances We’ve harvested a total of £667 of fruit veg this year We’ve spent a total of £385 this year, mostly one time investments What we’ve harvested and eaten We harvested a total of £135 worth of veg this week, excluding everything from the store. We had 33 meals...
March is my busiest sowing month and a lot of my sowing decisions are driven by having enough space to germinate and pot on seeds/seedlings. In this video I show you the progress of my January and February sowings which are doing fairly well. To really appreciate the progress I...