The shopping list.
Have spent a good few hours pondering what to try and grow this first season. I think I've now settled on the following. Read the rest of this post »
February 13, 2010
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In at the deep end.
I'm not exactly bursting with gardening experience. I'm a director for the management company at the flats where I live, so have spent the last year tending the lawns, weeding, etc. As a kid, my parents had ambitions to go self-sufficient and I used to help out with the gardening and growing. I also spent a few summers with my grandfather, an allotment obsessive. So I have a good grounding in the basics - but I'm far from an expert.
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It finally happened.
Back in October, after a succession of phone calls, I finally managed to track down the secretary of the local allotment association. After a brief chat, he requested that I send a letter formally requesting a plot, which I duly did, then sat back and waited for a response. Read the rest of this post »
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