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14 Nov 2007Carriage Awaits Lotty garden
After last weeks struggle with the compost I decided it was time to invest in a high tech conveyor – a wheeled contraption is required for lugging the heavy stuff.
This particular model is the Revolution Cargo trailer by Edinburgh Cycles. It normally goes for £125 but I managed to source o...
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03 Nov 2007Chard Nurturing Lotty garden
I staggered across to my allotment today, laden with compostable materials. Not sure what the heck happened on the waste front last week but I’m going to blame the veg box. I could barely carry the bag of peelings, vacuum crud and shredded paper and by the time I added my friends sack of gr...
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27 Oct 2007Bright Lights Lotty garden
It didn’t look like a great day for spending on the allotment. However, I had a number of tasks that needed to be ticked off the list so I headed off early to beat the inevitable rain.
I took the plot on rather too late in the year to sow any winter crops, so early in the month I ordered a ...
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25 Oct 2007Real Seeds Lotty garden
There was a lovely treat awaiting me when I got home today, which just about made up for the terrifying night-time cycle commute. Two seed packages had been delivered, one with 3 packets of organic freebies from Thompson & Morgan and the other containing my purchases from the Real Seed Catalo...
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20 Oct 2007Infinity Pool Lotty gardenI acquired a few off cuts of pond liner from the amazing freecycle group and after using them to suppress weeds for about 2 days, I decided I may as well get on and build a pond. I took a fairly haphazard approach to the design and was lucky that my sheet of rubber just about fit the hole I dug. ...
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14 Oct 2007Compost Alley Lotty garden
I had a late night trip to the lotty this week to deliver a load of compost bins that I’d managed to scavenge from my block of flats. It was interesting seeing the site in the middle of the night. I had to use my high power halogen torch to find my plot but once I got there I was able to tu...
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07 Oct 2007Melancholy Averted Lotty garden
In the end I had a very successful weekend down the allotment, thanks to the weather and a distinct lack of a social life.
I turned up around Saturday lunchtime and became almost irreversibly melancholic as it seemed the previous weeks’ hard work had been wiped out by the irrepressible couc...
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02 Oct 2007Industrial Espionage Lotty garden
The Great North Run travel arrangements put paid to all plans for allotment labouring this weekend but I was able to do a reccy of some East Yorkshire plots and pick up more veg growing tips.
I think my dad was having payback thoughts after all the hard work he did on my allotment but “unfortun...
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23 Sep 2007End of Week One Lotty garden
My parents are heading back to Yorkshire today but we were up early enough to cram in a quick trip to the lotty. We needed to see if the shed contraption was still in existence and construct a brassica protecting cloche. Talking to a few locals on the site yesterday indicated that my biggest thre...
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22 Sep 2007Gothic Parents Lotty garden
We were up bright early to make the most of the late summer sunshine and to raid the allotment association shop of all its goodies.
After directing mum to the worst heap of weeds seen outside of the amazonian rainforest, dad and I headed off in search of cheap sheds. We arrived back a couple of h...
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