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Parental Visitation

November 23, 2009
Parental Visitation

The weekend was scheduled for the installation of the guttering and water butt, a task I’d handed over to Lynn but not before I had passed on the benefit of my huge and heroically unsuccessful experiences. I’ve been spouting tales of woe for the last week, predicting DIY disasters of monumental proportions and just to [...]

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Community Allotmenting – War or Peace?

May 25, 2008
Community Allotmenting - War or Peace?

One of the plots adjacent to mine is run on a community basis and I find it fascinating to see how well it flourishes. I would expect utter chaos but it’s a very well ordered plot. I haven’t spotted a Gantt chart pinned up on the shed wall with tasks and timelines allocated to individuals [...]

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Carrot Torment

May 13, 2008
Carrot Torment

I’m on the edge with my carrots. Three squandered seed packs later, I’m wondering whether to just walk away and forget that the sweet, orange roots ever existed in my life. A trip to Petersham Nursery on Sunday gave me another option: Now 50p may seem a little steep for an individual carrot, even in [...]

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Wot no Grandkids?

May 9, 2008
Wot no Grandkids?

My parents arrived today, searching for grandkids as predicted. Finding the flat childless, they were persuaded to walk along to the allotment in search of productivity. There I handed them a fork each and set them off at either end of the row of manky cabbages in a horticultural dig out. Mum won of course, [...]

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Sadly Barren

April 28, 2008
Sadly Barren

The title applies to me and not the plot which continues to be satisfyingly productive as todays steamer contents will confirm. I had a phone call today from my parents who were happy yet a little puzzled to find my blog mentioned in the Saturday edition of the Telegraph under the section: Best Allotment Blogs. [...]

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Fungal Foray

January 1, 2008
Fungal Foray

For Christmas this year I got a couple of packs of mushroom “seed” or more accurately, packs of wooden dowells impregnated with mushroom mycelium. I went up to Yorkshire for a few days so I split them with my Dad and we had some fun trying to bash the little plugs into some freshly cut [...]

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All Quiet on the Allotment Front

December 2, 2007
All Quiet on the Allotment Front

Well it hasn’t been all that quiet it’s just been so stressful recently that I’ve kind of gone into blogging hibernation. I mentioned in my last post that I had been offered a super shed for use on the plot and I’d roped in the help of my mum, dad and brother to help erect [...]

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Industrial Espionage

October 2, 2007
Industrial Espionage

The Great North Run travel arrangements put paid to all plans for allotment labouring this weekend but I was able to do a reccy of some East Yorkshire plots and pick up more veg growing tips. I think my dad was having payback thoughts after all the hard work he did on my allotment but [...]

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