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Myself, my boyfriend and our friend Anna have taken on an overgrown allotment space. looking for inspiration and other perspectives and growing experiences!!

In Cardiff     

one of this years big jobs is complete plus the last of the crops form last year...read more

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Box number 2 planted yesterday for the great garlic experiment :-)

First seedsof the new season finally sown!

Well, the time has come to start my biodynamics experiment. According to the calendar in my book "Gardening and Planting by the Moon 2012", today is apparently a fruit day and not a good day to be planting garlic, so today I will be planting some garlic. According to the calendar, tomorrow is a garlic day so ....... I will be planting one lot of garlic today and one lot tomorrow to see which grows the best. I will be using compost from the same bag, garlic from the same batch and identical…

now the weather has turned i have bee ndown the plot getting some jobs done and meeting the neibours....read more

Hi there all,

Been a rather busy week. I have made good use of the dry days and relatively mild weather and have cracked on with the leveling out, and adding of manure to the intended veg patch. BUTI ran out of dirt to level with, so had to order some from a local supplier. It got delivered today, a whole ton of topsoil, along with nine bags of farmyard manure mix (on offer @ 3 for £10). Didn't take as long as I thought to get it all barrowed round the back,…

Over the recent snowy weekend, I started to sow my first batch of seeds of the year, which I always start at this time of the year (mid February). Having already sorted through all the seeds I've managed to collect, earlier in the month, I then got to prepping for this years vegetable sowing.…

Today, with the help of my son, I managed to lift off one of the compost bins to get at what was inside. The stuff was so tightly packed that it took us about ten minutes of rocking and banging before we could slide the thing up and out of the way. This is what a naked dalek looks like :)…

Well my garlic plants are doing nicely. I put garlic in practically everything and although I will be planting more garlic, I did cheat with this lot because I got them from a very nice lady who had a stall outside my local village farmer's market last weekend. I haven't managed to get to any of the markets before and to be brutally honest, they scare me. I don't actually live in the village, I…

i have had a set back already in my potato trial this year Read more.........................

If Mark Willis's photo of Purple Sprouting Broccoli has tickled your artistic tastebuds (it certainly has mine) spare 5 min's Google time to look at images of famous still life painter Rachel Ruysch.  You won't be dissapointed.  For the guys out there, you might prefer the work of Conor Walton.  

Yes I'm afraid to say that I have another failure to chalk up, it's not going so well at the moment.

Moving forward? All comments appreciated over here and greatfully received http://ourtinygarden.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/a-rethink-on-moving-forward/

Potatoes arrived today from J B A seed potatoes. Only doing 2 lots this year international kidney and wiltja. Will get some maincrop locally later. so now they are all sat looking pretty in egg boxes. Already got the broad beans sown in modules, garlic and onion in too. Just have to wait till i can get on the plot now, too wet at present.

A new and magical blog post to brush away the dreary grey and rain filled days......a true dream I had last night.......

the shed that dreams are made off

Happy Monday folks!

Well, it is for me as I got outside and did a bit more leveling out and clearing. Honestly, this will be a nice garden space one day, feels more like a building site just now though with bits and bobs everywhere. I have so many 'bits' of old paving slab now that used to be a retaining wall. I took that apart to get the ground level and now I don't know what to do with all the slab bits!! HELP!!! Not only that, there are sooooo many stones lurking about too.…

Finally the potatoes are set out to chit.

Hi all.

I'm bored! Haven't been able to go out in the garden for a few days, blooming rain!!! Well, at least it isn't snow, you guys down south can keep it for once!! I did however go out a couple of days ago, but boy! the ground was frozen! After digging in all that compost and organic stuff a few days ago I wanted to tackle the next bit and do some leveling out of the old borders that were behind the wall:…

When I think of comfort food I think of soup, yes, yes I know all you women out there are now saying not a chance it has to be “CHOCOLATE” but there is something about soup that makes everything feel alright     Read More.......... …

At the moment my greenhouse is so full of stuff that shouldn't really be in there that it looks what you might call - a tip.  No way can I clear it out yet, with the weather being so bad - see more of this post here