Should you remove potato flowers and/or their fruits?

18th July 2019

Over the years I’ve heard a number of allotment folk say that they remove the flowers from their potato plants…

19th March 2019

As very young children we are taught to love the man in the moon. As a boy I owned a…

7th January 2019

Following on from my last blog post about saving money on vegetable seeds, I thought it would be interesting to…

4th January 2019

This time last year I compared vegetable seed prices across the major UK seed retailers. I did this by creating…

1st October 2018

Towards the end of last year you may remember that I acquired another half plot allotment and started work on…

17th September 2018

Up until this year I had only ever grown traditional long courgettes at the allotment – I started with green…

19th July 2018

I don’t know about you but I became sick of hearing about Brexit three months before we even had a…

17th July 2018

‘We need to get more children gardening’ goes the all too common refrain but never mind gardening, it seems that…

25th June 2018

I’ve been a bit short on blog writing time of late, between flower show volunteering and work (yes I DO…

30th April 2018

When I am in the garden or at my allotments my mind is not somewhere else. My mind is quiet…

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