After saying we’re not growing an experimental crop this year, we’ve decided to grow chickpeas! I popped to the garden centre the other day to pick up some chicken manure pellets; as I walked down the aisle the seed section caught my eye. I saw…
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Monthly Archives: March 2015
March 2015 – What We’re Sowing
We don’t sow many seeds in March because we’ve found the low levels of light at this time of year tend to cause the plants to become etiolated very quickly. This is what we’ve chosen to sow in March.…
Posted in Sowing and Growing
Allotment Journal : Weekly Update We’re BACK!!!
Cavolo Nero Over the past couple of weeks the weather has been gloriously sunny and fairly warm for this time of year, it hasn’t felt like winter at all. Enticed by the sunshine we returned to the allotment last week…
Posted in Allotment Journal
Choice Allotments, St Leonards on Sea
Burgess Buttercup squash
Pear from the communal tree.
The last bunch of sweet peas, 2013
Victoria plums
Globe Artichoke. Plot one
Globe Artichoke, leaves emerging spring 2014
Cabbage… before they were eaten by snails and slugs
There are plenty of ladybirds around this spring
Sweet pea
Garlic scapes
Eschscholzia californica
Discovery Apple blosson
Chives
Cabbage white catepillars
Slug caught munching on a squash flower
Dandelion
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