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Powdery Mildew on Pumpkins

saarfeastlondoner wrote 16 hours ago: I was gutted to find my pretty little Small Sugar pumpkins developing a rather nasty case of powdery … more →

Tags: 1, powdery mildew, pumpkin growing, small sugar pumpkins

Crop Update

saarfeastlondoner wrote 4 days ago: Garlic picked yesterday – sorry about the pic, I couldn’t be bothered to rotate it! not … more →

Tags: Garlic Growing, onion growing, pumpkin growing, small sugar pumpkins, sweetcorn growing

Sweetcorn sabotage!

saarfeastlondoner wrote 4 days ago: A few weeks ago I received advice from an old timer at the allotments to cut the side shoots off my … more →

Tags: sweetcorn growing

Hampton Court Flower Show 2009 Part 14 comments

reapwhatyougrow wrote 6 days ago: WOW.  This is the third year that I have been to Hampton Court, and I just love it more each year.  … more →

Tags: Amaranth, giant cabbage, growing tastes, Hampton Court, hampton court flower show 2009, Squash, Vegetables

Allotments (Still) On My Mind

danielweiresq wrote 6 days ago: A short visit to Mrs Weir’s sister’s allotment to help with the harvest. … more →

Tags: Gardens

Allotment friends5 comments

Jane Moore wrote 1 week ago: One of the greatest pleasures of allotment life is getting to know my neighbours. Ron, Beryl, Vic an … more →

Tags: Allotment, growing courgettes, growing herbs, Growing Potatoes

We have lift off

allotment5andahalf wrote 1 week ago: I lifted the rest of the yellow onions this evening as, according to the forecast, that’s it … more →

Tags: Allotment, Onions, buckland brewer, gardening, north devon

- Skerries Allotments Survey

Trevor Sargent wrote 1 week ago: Help to decide where the Skerries Allotments will be. If you live in or near Skerries and are intere … more →

Tags: Fingal news, Skerries, survey

Pea Moths

saarfeastlondoner wrote 2 weeks ago: The first few batches of peas I picked were fine – lovely in fact.  But now the evidence of no … more →

Tags: pea moths, pea pests

The Allotment2 comments

garydenness wrote 2 weeks ago: A couple of weeks ago one of my students who had just recently been to London, and was about to go a … more →

Tags: gardening, Vegetables

Is this the pest ?2 comments

docfonz wrote 2 weeks ago: Four pictures of the potential pest Well, it’s been a while (again) as everything has been hap … more →

Tags: Allotment, gardening, Garden, Vegetables, Growing, Grow Your Own, Pests, Insects, growing your own

Growing strawberries12 comments

Jane Moore wrote 3 weeks ago: It’s been very dry lately, so I’ve had to water my crops on a daily basis. The poor plan … more →

Tags: growing strawberries, watering

More from behind closed doors..

suttonintheisle wrote 3 weeks ago: Today, I’ve uploaded more episodes from my lively encounter with Sutton’s Ladies Curry C … more →

Tags: Stories, british legion, cat, Daughter, Ladies Curry Club, Line Dancing, Listen, Lost, pub

Greener Fields - revisited

Greener Builds wrote 3 weeks ago: It’s now been a month since our last post detailing the progress of the Greener Fields project, and … more →

Tags: Allotment, Eco Design, green build, Green Building, Green Buildings, Green Builds, Greener Building, Greener Builds, Ploughing

The best of both worlds....

countrygate wrote 3 weeks ago: Last Monday I was watering on the plot to the sound of church bells as the bellringers held their re … more →

Tags: Food for the Soul, on the plot, Country Gate, Country Gate Gardens

Watering vegetables12 comments

Jane Moore wrote 4 weeks ago: I love this weather, it’s just the right mix of fresh, dewy mornings and cracking sunny after … more →

Tags: critical watering period, growing peas and beans, Growing Potatoes, growing vegetables, watering vegetables

Allotments

Leah Fraser wrote 4 weeks ago: I was met at Belvidere Allotments with a bunch of  flowers handpicked by Jim from his plot on the si … more →

Tags: Green, Community, health, Wirral Borough Council

Food security – an unavoidable solution (W. Van Cotthem)

willem van cotthem wrote 1 month ago: I was reading with great interest the content of the former postings on my blog http://desertific … more →

Tags: School Gardens, Desertification, horticulture / gardening, food / food security, hunger / famine / malnutrition, desert / desert gardening, family gardens, Agriculture, dryland gardening

How does your (vege) garden grow?

homeonthehill wrote 1 month ago: It seems like this year has been very typical so far – a proper rainy and sunny spring and now … more →

Tags: My garden in June, Vegetables


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