For better or for worse
I’ve done it. I’ve dug up the Christmas Pippin. It didn’t take long – just over an hour to dig up, wash the roots clean, check for horsetail and pot […]
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Self-kippering, a guide
Wait for weeks for the wind to be from the right direction on a dry day. Build a substantial fire, unwittingly using damp straw at the base. Light. Absent-mindedly stand downwind. Later […]
Not just the first day of Spring…
It’s my plotiversary! On this day four years ago I took on Plot 100 and my obsession with growing fruit and veg began. Who’d’a thunk I’d so happily swap vertiginous […]
Of rhubarb & raspberries
There is a common maxim that my allotmenteering life follows. If I put in permanent planting, I will want to move it, usually the following year. The saffron’s been moved, red […]
Warning: contains swearing
I put 4 oca tubers in a 40L bag, late last year as part of the experiment to see what difference it made to plant late. Lesson 1: late planting […]
Swamps R Us
Ev-e-ry time plot #92 gets close to being workable it s*dding rains. The front of the greenhouse was a lake, despite the new bit of path along the side doing […]
That’s ME that is!
Mudandgluts is Jane Perrone’s recommended blog in April’s issue of Grow Your Own magazine! That’s two lovely magazine reviews. In the words of the sainted Victor Meldrew, ‘I don’t BELIEVE it!’ […]
Blackcurrants and backache
Yesterday was the day, though initially only for planting out Mum’s new morello cherry fan. A mere 30 minutes after breaking ground it was tucked up with a bag of […]
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