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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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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How to freeze Blackberries and other Blackberry recipes

Its getting to that time of year again where we find ourselves wandering down country lanes and hedgerows looking for the little deep purple beauty that is the blackberry. Its definitely a great childhood memory…

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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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