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February 2017 Growing Update

A romanesco growing at our allotment.

A romanesco growing at our allotment.

February has been a busy month for us. We’ve been enjoying our crops from our garden and allotment, and busy planning for the coming months. Regular readers will have noticed that there were no growing updates for the months of December and January. In truth there wasn’t a great deal to write about. We were rather busy every weekend over the festive period, and with the days so short at that time of year, getting outside and cultivating before or after work didn’t seem like it would be a practical option. In short we spent very little time in the…

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Exciting News – We Have An Allotment!

Our new allotment. Uncultivated in this photo.

Our new growing space - a 3 rod allotment.

There has been an exciting development for us and our fruit and vegetable growing.  We’ve got an allotment! It’s something we had considered for some time. We thought about it a lot before we moved into our current house. But once we moved here and had more growing space than ever before, we were in our element and the idea of an allotment became less important. Of course more space would have been nice. Just a few weeks ago I commented in a post that due to our crop rotation plan and the size differences between our beds we wouldn’t be…

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