We took on Debbie’s plot a few months ago and it was one of the biggest challenges on the site. Neglected for years, used to store a boat, covered in broken roof tiles and rubble, with carpet on top, through which couch grass, bind weed and mares tail had grown...
A quick video to show what a typical lunch time looks like for me, cleaning, processing and preparing salads for the next few days. Everything grown on the allotment in March or traded with neighbours in return for veg that I’ve grown – ah the simple life! To be honest...
This video describes the way that I’ve designed all of the raised bed frames on my allotment plot to be a standard size, with optional mesh, poly-tunnel and cold frame tops. The frames can be stacked to create deep beds and hot beds too. The video then goes into more...
It was only one year ago today that I planted my first seeds in the allotment beds and I cropped my first salad leaves about a month later. This year I’ve improved those times considerably, in fact I’ve been eating almost all of my veg from the allotment (or bartered)...
I’ve come to the end of my first calendar year as an allotmenteer and it’s been life changing, I expected to enjoy growing my own food, but it turned out that there were lots of benefits that I really didn’t expect to get from the allotment: the wonderful sense of...
I spent my first afternoon at the allotment yesterday and it surprised me, in ways that I didn’t expect. I expected a patch of bare earth, in the midst of lots of other patches to be perhaps the definition of unsurprising, but I was wrong. It proved to be really...
I’ve always loved eating animal products, although when I found out about the inhumane conditions in which some of them were raised I immediately switched to free range eggs and more recently organic diary. For meat though for many years the best I could afford was the RSPCA’s Freedom Food,...