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Dealing with ants
We have ants on the balcony. We also have ants on the allotment (farming the aphids, mostly, which is both impressive and really, really annoying, leading as it does to the death of the broad beans). I...
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Small luxuries
Yesterday evening, whilst picking raspberries and blackcurrants at the allotment, I was thinking about small luxuries. One of the things I appreciate most about the summer, these days, is the ability...
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Autumn and winter planting
The season is definitely turning, and it’s time to think about planting on the allotment for autumn and winter. For me, autumn planting falls into two categories: things which you can plant now to...
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Autumn growth
Down the allotment this week (at sunset in only a T-shirt — in October!), I noticed that the raspberries are cropping again. Admittedly they are autumn raspberries, but ‘autumn’ in raspberry parlance...
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Vegan chickweed pesto
There’s not that much growing at this time of year; but you will find fresh chickweed in UK gardens and allotments, even in the middle of the snow. It’s usually considered a weed, but in fact it’s...
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The allotment waking up
It’s still pretty cold around here – though it reached 14deg on Wednesday – but the signs of spring are already upon us. The crocuses are out in the local park, and the chives on my balcony have...
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Keeping track
This year, for the first time, I actually bothered to harden off my tomatoes before migrating them full-time from the windowsill into their final home on the balcony[0]. In theory, this should mean...
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Potatoes, babies, and tricycles
I decided to plan for a very low maintenance allotment this year, given that I also have a new garden and (rather more time-consumingly) a new baby to deal with. Over the winter, the main beds have...
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Allotment weeding with a baby
We already solved the problem of taking the baby to the allotment (and to lots of other places). This weekend for the first time I managed to get something done while I was there, too, rather than just...
View ArticleFarewell to the allotment
I knew that managing the allotment with a newborn this year would be a bit of a struggle. The plan was to mulch all the annual beds with cardboard, plant potatoes (fairly low-maintenance crop) through...
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