Tag: nottingham
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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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TOP 10 Seed Choices with Suttons
Find out what seeds I’ll be growing as part of the new range from Sutton’s. 🌱
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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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Tips for Choosing your Allotment Garden
Late winter going into early spring is one of the best times of the year to choose your allotment plot. Annual plants have died back and deciduous trees bare their naked form, giving you an overall blank canvas view of the plot’s potential future as a productive edible garden. You might even glance a few…
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5 Reasons Why You Should Save Your Seed
Saving seed has become an important part of my allotment practises this year and I’ve come to realise that It’s something everyone should be doing! Not only are seeds themselves such beautiful things to study close up, but the more you grow and preserve your seed, you are in turn developing the variety to become…
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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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Apple Variety Identified!
I was wrong all along! Well…kind of. Let me explain. I got the keys to my allotment in September 2014 and one of the reasons I chose it was for the apple tree growing at the back of the plot. The first apple I ate was sour and must have been an underripe one because…
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