Top January Allotment Tips
The New Year brings with it new hopes and aspirations on our allotment and in life generally. Some things such as the weather are out of our control. Yet …
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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 …
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 December Allotment Tips
As I write there is a wonderful hoar frost this morning.The foliage and grass are glistening white and the soil is frozen enough to easily break a spade. Frost …
December Allotment Tips
It certainly hasn’t been allotment weather here in the north. We have had three weeks of almost incessant rain recently which has virtually curtailed all …
What is it? Garden Tools from 1914
My shed is full of garden tools that I don’t use very often and some that I don’t use at all. Looking through the 1914 Suttons catalogue I saw that …