Phacelia cover crop with a bee up close.

Beginning To Use Cover Crops

Posted 15/09/2026

A chance conversation one day with someone on the allotment about what to do with an empty bed put me on to trying cover crops. I'd never heard of them before but soon started to read up a little bit about them. I decided to start trying them in various places on our plots...


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Last Few Posts

2024 And The Difficult Third Album

Posted 03/09/2025

After going from one to three plots in the space of a few short months, this was to be our first year of actually being able to grow a quite substantial amount of food. We had mostly success and a few failures but this year really made us feel like growers...


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Yet Another Plot, Sort Of...

Posted 13/08/2025

2024 had an early surprise in store through a mutual friend and we had to get busy clearing yet another plot. It was nothing like the first two but in the space of a few months we went from one small plot to what at times looks and feels like a small holding...


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Getting & Clearing Our Second Plot

Posted 11/08/2025

What a few months this ended up being! From one small plot to two more full sized half plots. Christmas 2023 ended up changing how we viewed what we were doing, and also changed the way we looked at growing...


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Our First Full Year On The Plot

Posted 07/08/2025

We'd learned a lot during our first half year on the allotment and couldn't wait to get started on a full year. We began to get to know people a bit more, became more confident planting, and were much more prepared for Spring...


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