Plot 79 – The website and blog…
Posted in General on Nov 8th, 2009
Who said the government was crap? Well, back in the in 1940’s anyway!
A new project for spring 2010 will be to begin to re-create a plot from the 40’s. Using original Dig For Victory literature published by the Ministry of Agriculture, sourced by a friend. Traditional British grub including ‘Doctor Carrot’ and ‘Potato Pete’ – [...]
Posted in General on Nov 4th, 2009
For the last week the blog has been down. I’ve just moved a rather large database over to a new server to hopefully avoid the slow loading problems that were happening.
Posts over the past few months have been thin on the ground but as usual… I have been busy We’ve had lots of [...]
Posted in General, Growing, Poultry, Sowing on Aug 11th, 2009
Everyday has been another working day… Hardly any allotment time although it doesn’t look too bad!
We’re starting to get a few runner beans on the plants, not many sadly but that teaches me for buying seed from a man in a shed! I’ve learnt and will buy seed from a garden centre next year.
The carrots [...]
Posted in General, Greenhouse, Growing on Jul 5th, 2009
With a mix of non stop work (the wonders of being self employed!) and ridiculously hot temperatures, I have been unable to do pretty much nothing down the allotments for the past couple of weeks. Plants are dying and weeds are growing!
Out of the 5 tomato plants in the greenhouse, only 3 have survived. The other [...]
Posted in General, Greenhouse, Growing, Sowing on Jun 8th, 2009
Nearly halfway through the year already…
I have got carrot, beetroot and radish seeds outside now in rows spanning the whole plot along with various brassica plants in the old chicken run and more outside that need covering. The cucumbers and courgettes have also been planted out.
We are digging the new potatoes that are supplying an [...]
With demand for allotments at an all-time high, some people are digging up their gardens, others covering concrete with containers. Rightly so too! Re-creating the 70’s sitcom The Good Life has been fuelled by the ever-rising price of fresh vegetables.
The price of traditional British veg including carrots, onions, beans, peas, lettuce and tomatoes should be [...]
I came down the stairs this morning and the postman had been before I woke up for a change! What greeted me under a pile of HMRC envelopes was the above Dig In seeds I ordered at the very start of the campaign. I had been waiting so long for them, I never thought they’d [...]
The website had crashed over the weekend due to such a high amount of hits! Over 3000 unique hits in 1 hour at one point! News spreads fast.
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