Allotment Life


I've been growing vegetables on a city allotment since 2008, and keeping ex-battery hens since April 09. Prior to this, my experiance with horticulture was restricted to killing houseplants. As much as I've learned, I'm still a novice experimenting, making mistakes, and having surprising successes. So as another year begins, I thought it'd be fun to blog and photograph life and productivity at the allotment. If you're in the UK, and want to know more about allotments including how to get one, try visiting this site: Allotment Growing and The National Society of Allotment and Lesiure Gardeners.

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Just woke up to a blanket of white again this morning, and it’s still falling. Thinking that the city was going to warm up was just silly.

I’m heading out to work in a National Trust garden in a few hours… the property has award winning snowdrops, but I hope we’re working in the greenhouses or forest today.

Scrap that. Just recieved a call saying there won’t be anything to do in these conditions, so stay home. So now I have a spare day! Woo!

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