My first raised bed - looked great and easy to net If you've just got an allotment you might be weighing up whether to dig the whole...

Ok, so where is everybody, huh? Two big, beautiful blue sky days and it's just me and a couple of allotment elders getting on with it. ...

Well, the sun is shining finally and having already written about purple on the plot I thought it was time to give yellow some credi...

I had big plans this year. I have always wanted to grow a Dill's Atlantic Giant Pumpkin . I love everything about pumpkins, from th...

I like purple a lot and there's a surprising amount on the allotment at the moment - so I thought I'd share some of it. 1. Choc...

My partner revealed my mother-in-law had already dug up her first batch of new potatoes last week. I was incensed because all her potatoe...

Yesterday I complained about the amount of rain and slugs torturing the allotment. It's been a grey summer, I moaned: Aut...