Tag: garden
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April Allotment Tour Video
Looking back, April has been one hell of strange month! We had a blanket of snow then just a week ago, around the time when I filmed this video, we had soaring temperatures of 27 degrees! None the less I have achieved so much on the plot and some big changes have taken place.
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March Allotment Tour Video
I’m back on your screens in my second allotment garden video! If you remember from my New Year Resolutions post, I’m making an effort to shoot more video content this year. Not only have I set up a dedicated Homegrown.Garden YouTube channel, but I’m also having fun shooting more stories on Instagram too! In this…
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Bloom Monday
Monday 15th January is thought to be the most depressing day of the year and you can understand why. It’s the middle of winter here in the UK, it’s cold, it’s dark, you don’t have much chance to get out to do any gardening because the weather is so rubbish and you probably have no…
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Garden Centre Haul Video
Take a look at all the garden bargains I bought during at the January sales!
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2018 Allotment Resolutions
Happy New Year! I’m going into 2018 with a list of personal allotment resolutions – eek! Let me make it clear that resolutions aren’t normally my thing. To be honest, I don’t see the point in striving for unrealistic personal goals, putting pressure on yourself to live a certain way, only to forget all about…
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#MyRealView
I’m joining Annabelle’s (from Life at No.27) mission to reveal #myrealview on my plot because my allotment isn’t all as it might seem!
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How I Made Home Brewed Cider Part 1
Happy Apple Day! Since today is the day that we, in the UK, celebrate the versatile fruit we all love eat, drink and grow, I thought I would share my home-brewing cider process so far.
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September Polytunnel Video Tour
I can’t believe it’s September already and the growing season has almost come to an end! I thought I would do one last tour of the polytunnel (below) to show how the plants have progressed with their new support and water systems in place.
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Allotment Jobs for Autumn
Pune hedges Sow green manure ✅ Prune herbs ✅ Plant Spring bulbs ✅ Remove bindweed (!) Collect leaves for leaf mould ✅ Collect seeds ✅ Sow lupin seeds Pot up strawberry runners Tidy the shed Tidy the polytunnel ✅ Consider sourcing farm manure ✅ Build a hedgehog house Harvest squashes ✅ Remove plants after end…
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