Top December Allotment Tips
The run up to Christmas is a time to focus on gifts for gardeners and allotmenteers. There is a mouth-watering range of tools and accessories that plot holders …
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Top November Allotment Tips
During Halloween, there were a number of plot holders utilising their plots to grow pumpkins for their children and grandchildren. The F1 variety ‘Becky’ …
Top October Allotment Tips
I really enjoy this time of year. The increasingly damp smell of decomposing vegetation, partially rotting leaf litter combined with stunning tree colours …
Top September Allotment Tips
It has been a challenging year for many plot holders. Last winter the Beast from the East, (who remembers that?) followed by the Mini Beast ensured a late …
Top August Allotment Tips
One thing we all agree on is that every year is different on the allotment. The main reason for this is the one thing we can’t control of course and that is …
Top July Allotment Tips
They say you can always tell when someone is a gardener, when they start asking for rain during mid –summer! Apart from the occasional damp interlude, June …
Top June Allotment Tips
There was a plague of greenfly in some parts of the UK around mid May. Damp weather followed by sustained warmth created the ideal conditions. Light winds …
Top May Allotment Tips
The two Bank Holiday Mondays that we are blessed with this month, come at a perfect time in the allotment calendar. Unquestionably, May is one of the busiest …
Top April Allotment Tips
Easter is normally a time to get a lot of early spring tasks completed. However here in the north, after weeks of almost incessant cold, it is still largely a …
Top March Allotment Tips
At the beginning of March my allotment is doing a rather good impression of the Arctic tundra. The whole site is under a foot of snow and the wind chill real …