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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flowers and sugar

flowers and sugar

Tagged: elderflowersugar

Recipe from selfsufficientish.com
Elderflower Cordial
Ingredients
20 elderflower heads  1 sliced lemon 2 tsp of citric acid (ask at your chemist) 1.5 kg (3.5 lbs) of sugar1.2 ltr (2.5 pints) boiling water

Recipe from selfsufficientish.com

Elderflower Cordial

Ingredients

20 elderflower heads
1 sliced lemon
2 tsp of citric acid (ask at your chemist)
1.5 kg (3.5 lbs) of sugar
1.2 ltr (2.5 pints) boiling water

Tagged: elderflowerlemon

This little fella hitched a ride on the blooms.

This little fella hitched a ride on the blooms.

Tagged: elderflowerspider

Gathered elderflowers for cordial making… elderflower cordial is, to me, the essence of summer.

Gathered elderflowers for cordial making… elderflower cordial is, to me, the essence of summer.

Tagged: elderflower