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Fizzy drinks mk2: Elderflower champagne is go!
All this sunshine and the elderflowers are ready at the allotment. We’re running an experiment with this: Every recipe we’ve ever come...
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Kate
May 28, 20202 min read
Activity of the Day: Salad Saviour! (OK, it's really a recipe, or at least ingredient prep)
That feeling of gloom when all the salads you had growing suddenly bolt and go from delicious tender leaves to aphid-covered leathery...
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Kate
May 26, 20203 min read
Recipe: Really easy rhubarb fizz
Make your own sparkling summery drink with this 4-ingredient (OK, 5 if you include the water) recipe. This is a completely delicious and...
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Kate
May 24, 20202 min read
Recipe: Zingy rhubarb salsa
A tangy, zesty salsa which substitutes the usual tomato for rhubarb, giving a fresh spring flavour. Ingredients (serves about 6 as a side...
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Kate
May 23, 20204 min read
Recipe: Rich and Delicious Rhubarb Chutney
This is a lovely dark chutney with rich complex flavours, including a subtle rhubarb tang. Ingredients 1kg rhubarb 300g sultanas or...
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Kate
May 22, 20201 min read
New recipe series starting soon...
It’s looking like our next glut of the year will be starting soon! With the rhubarb plants in need of a bit of a rest, look out for glut...
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Kate
May 20, 20201 min read
Planting out demonstration
Here’s one of our mini gardeners demonstrating how to replant pot grown plants. These tomatoes went into the vineyard greenhouse last...
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Kate
May 20, 20201 min read
The question is, how scary is he?
One of the mini gardeners is engaged in a running battle with the allotment pigeons for the strawberries. We currently don‘t have enough...
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Kate
May 20, 20201 min read
Archway climbing beans and peas today
Soon they’ll be joined by climbing squash to make two lush jungly entrance archways into the tipi circle. Tasty and pretty companion...
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Kate
May 17, 20201 min read
Grafted apple trees growing nicely!
A few people have asked, so here they are: The apple trees that got grafted a bit too late due to the terrible wet weather followed by...
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Kate
May 15, 20201 min read
Oh dear, hard frost...
One very sad looking vineyard. About 90% of the shoots have died in the frost. We may get a few grapes- but will have to wait until next...
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Katy
May 13, 20201 min read
Pests on the plot!
Working on the allotment around the orchard area, the fruit tree blossom looked fantastic, and it was good to know that they’re all doing...
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Kate
May 12, 20201 min read
First cinnabar moth of the year!
These are our favourites! They’re day moths with brilliant red and black wings. They look brighter when flying- more red than black. The...
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Kate
May 12, 20201 min read
Cold night at the vineyard...
There was a frost last week but it didn’t damage the vines; last night’s frost must have been a couple of degrees colder- you can see the...
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Katy
May 11, 20202 min read
Archaeology at the plot!
We’ve had to do a lot of earth shifting on the allotment, mainly because we’ve not only moved a shed, but also because we’ve put in...
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Kate
May 10, 20201 min read
All wrapped up
There’s frost forecast tonight- so the tomatoes and courgettes need a bit of protection. Above are the tomatoes, protected by a dust...
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Kate
May 9, 20201 min read
Down at the vineyard: Springtime is here!
The grape vines have finally decided it's properly spring! They're pretty much the last things to come into leaf at the allotments-...
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Kate
Apr 28, 20201 min read
No problems with remembering here...
Just before the rain started! we think forget-me-nots are brilliant: They start out as tiny sophisticated looking plahts with bright blue...
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Katy
Apr 28, 20201 min read
Almost ready to move house...
We have a greenhouse full of seed trays and seedlings! But they're in the wrong place...Well, we had to start our veggies off somewhere,...
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Kate
Apr 27, 20201 min read
First courgette in the ground...
They’ve even got their very own little greenhouses - just to help them settle in a bit, and in case there’s a cold night (our last frost...
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