How to make your own compost

I don’t know about you but we started to spend quite a lot of money on compost for our allotment. Every year we would purchase multiple bags of peat free compost, to fill our 30L…

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What Food To Grow For Beginners

Nothing beats growing and of course eating your own food. Its fresh, flavoursome, nutritious, hasn’t travelled half way across the world, isn’t wrapped in plastic and depending on the way you grow it, it will…

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This Months jobs at the allotment or garden – April

Its starting to get exciting in the garden and allotment. The days are longer and warmer and nature is starting to burst into life. With birds returning from their winter holidays, the sound of the…

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What to sow in July

This post may contain affiliate links. As an Amazon associate I may earn a small percentage from your purchase but at no extra cost to you. Before I started my allotment, I thought that most…

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Our first Allotment Harvest

For any new readers, here is a quick re-cap…We took on an allotment plot in February 2020, it was very over grown and didn’t have any growing beds dug out but it did have lots…

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