1. You will never again need to spend your weekend surrounded by other people’s offspring trampling over each other in a so-called ‘soft-play’ area. Just give your kids a spade and let them loose on the allotment. Who cares if it’s 2 degrees / tipping with rain. It’s character building. 2. You know that … [Read more...]
Five reasons to grow veg (that have nothing to do with getting your five a day.)
25/02/2013 By 5 Comments
losing the plot on the plot
03/10/2012 By 4 Comments
When I mention I’ve got an allotment, people often assume I’m some kind of kaftan-wearing vegan earth-mother, whose kids have never tasted Haribo. Yeah, right. In reality, we just don’t have space for a veg patch at home. One day we might move to the sticks (if Unhusband gets his own way) but until then, it’s an … [Read more...]
rainbow carrots
28/07/2012 By 2 Comments
The theme on the allotment this year is colour and diversity. I mean why grow green Brussels sprouts, when you can have purple ones? We also have purple mange tout and rainbow carrots. They're not actually stripy - genetic modification does have its limits - but they come in an array of yellow, orange and purple. The fun bit … [Read more...]
The only way to kill slugs
03/07/2012 By 23 Comments
Mick on the next plot shakes his head. ‘You want to put some pellets down there, love,’ he says. I decline as politely as I can. What I’d like to say is: ‘thanks for the advice, but I'd rather not poison my veg with those nasty little blue things that are harmful to kids, pets and the environment. If I wanted my veg … [Read more...]
Stop bloody raining
12/06/2012 By 1 Comment
So, after a very short lived heat-wave, in which I spent a fortune on factor 50 (the biopsy came back clear, by the way - hooray doesn’t do it justice) and then whisked the seedlings out of the greenhouse and planted them outside, it has now doggedly tipped it down ever since. And at 13 degrees centigrade, the temperature has … [Read more...]
