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Tag Archives: vegetables

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From Lawn to Largesse

Gardening, urban and otherwiseBy Abigail WillisJune 23, 2020Leave a comment

  It’s amazing what a difference three months can make in a garden. In March when we went into Covid lockdown and panic buying prompted food security jitters I decided now was the moment to convert part of our small back garden into a vegetable plot. Our allotment is rather too prone to animal predation…

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Bleak midwinter

Gardening, urban and otherwiseBy Abigail WillisJanuary 18, 2018Leave a comment

Popped down to the allotment today, for the first time in ages, this year even.  As the picture below shows, it was a bleak scene.  Last night’s snow/sleet had faded but the whole place gave the impression of hunkering down beneath a lowering January sky. The swathes of black weed surpressing plastic that so many…

Potatoes by Proxy

Gardening, urban and otherwiseBy Abigail WillisJanuary 30, 2017Leave a comment

Too much choice can be a difficult thing to handle, at least when it comes to choosing potatoes.  This year my disappointment at not being able to attend our local potato day (http://www.potato-days.net), was tempered when I recalled how traumatic I had found last year’s event (the first I had ever attended).  A potato day…

Autumn on the Allotment

Gardening, urban and otherwiseBy Abigail WillisNovember 2, 2016Leave a comment

So, autumn is here and another growing season on the allotment has more or less come to an end (bar some stalwart Swiss chard,  a few lingering, enormous beetroots, and some brassicas yet to come on stream).  What with the recent Marmite scare and the news that olive oil is going to become more expensive…

Allotment update

Gardening, urban and otherwiseBy Abigail WillisMay 14, 2015Leave a comment

Quick update from the allotment … these photos are from a couple of weeks ago, so things have already moved on since then, but I am posting these just as a reminder of how, when spring gets going, how quickly things start happening. Compare and contrast my February picture of the rhubarb with this unstoppable…

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