2025 was the first year that we felt we were no longer just beginners. We had a good idea of what we wanted, what we were doing, when to do it, and also why we were doing it in the first place. We had the usual ups and downs but the failures are definitely happening less each year...
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...
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...
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...
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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