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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No photos this time, but an update. Yesterday I harvested my first new potatoes, some baby carrots whilst thinning them (they were perfect!), and a few peas (eaten right there at the plant, hehe). I’ve also been eating my own strawberries for about a week, and today I’ve brought home some “Devil’s Tongue” lettuce, and some baby beets.

The elderflower cordial is all done and bottled. I’m so pleased with it, it’s gorgeous, especially made with sparkling water. Next project before it’s too late is elderflower champagne… I’ll be starting that in the next few days.

Slugs have been eating my uber-cool kidney bean plants before they have any chance… I’m not holding out hope. This is what they would’ve been:

Otherwise, everything seems to be growing well!

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