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Latest Recipes

Hot Potato and Asparagus Salad Recipe
Recipe for Hot Potato and Asparagus Salad - Great with fresh crusty bread.
Spicy Baby Potatoes Recipe
Recipe for Spicy Baby Potatoes - Serves 4. Can be turned into a main course by adding some cubed feta cheese or halloumi and finishing under a grill.
Chard and Asparagus Roulade Recipe
Recipe for Chard and Asparagus Roulade - This recipe is a very versatile one in that you can use different vegetables according to what you have on hand or from the garden.
Rhubarb Vodka Recipe
Submitted by JulieP Crush 2 sticks of rhubarb (in a plastic bag with a rolling pin or a pestle and morter) and put into a Kilner type jar (must be at least a litre and half) with 3 tablespoon of sugar and leave foro 2 days. (...)
Asparagus Risotto Recipe
Recipe for Asparagus Risotto - Serves 2.

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Welcome to allotment growing for allotment holders and gardeners.

Allotment Plot 5 in December 2003 - The Start
Allotment 5 - Dec 2002, The Start

Vegetable Growing - Month by Month
The Essential Allotment Guide
Vegetable Growing Month by Month and Author

I realised from the forums that there are a lot of new growers looking for basic help & advice so I wrote two books!

You can buy them from bookstores online or in the high street, or you can get copies, signed, direct from me

Vegetable Growing Month by Month & The Essential Allotment Guide

Low Cost Living

My latest book is about living better for less, being green but not daft.

More on Low Cost Living

 

Allotment Growing Diary Plus

Vegetable Fruit & Herb Growing on my Allotment

Photographs, Comfrey & Heatwave
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 - Allotment Diary
A photo shoot followed by cutting comfrey and thinking about how they cope with the heat in Spain
Allotment or Building Plot
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 - Rants and Raves
We all want to improve our plots but how much is enough? Permanent structures have no place on allotments.
Catching Up on the Plot
Sun, 28 Jun 2009 - Allotment Diary
Free Seed Offer back for a week (by accident, thanks to the Daily Mail) and catching up with weeding, planting and yet more weeding.
Back from Lanzarote
Fri, 26 Jun 2009 - Allotment Diary
Back from Lanzarote, wonderful holiday but a really sad return as Tommy was killed.
Allotment Diary

Allotment TV

Some month by month allotment gardening tips courtesy of the Allotment Channel

Allotment Shopping

You can see Vegetable Seeds listed from T& M, Suttons and Dobies sorted into sections. Useful if you want to compare prices for the same variety. I've also listed the seeds with the RHS Award of Garden Merit and a selection of fruit trees, fruit bushes and nut trees.

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Rotovators, Shredders
Garden Machinery

Like many allotment holders in the UK, I enjoy growing vegetables and herbs.

When we moved to our new house with its small suburban garden there was little room to indulge my passion. A small herb bed and space for a few salad crops. Around the corner I noticed an allotment site and contacted the local council to see if they had any vacant allotments.

They put me on to the site rep who showed me around the site and the vacant allotment plots. I walked away with a site key, the proud tenant of plot 5 - about 150 sq metres of overgrown, wet heavy clay soil. Wonderful!

Once you have an allotment what could be better than another? So when it became vacant, I took on plot 29.

Allotments are a great hobby. They're cheap, you get healthy exercise without having to pay for a gym or run around in circles and you get to eat healthy fruit and vegetables without all those (not so) yummy pesticides.

Most Popular Allotment Site in the UK!

I started this site as an online diary and to help others growing vegetables on an allotment and now it's the most popular allotment site in the UK! Amazing!

For the benefit of new US visitors - UK Allotments are plots of land rented to individuals to grow vegetables on. There's a brief history of allotments here

About the Allotment Web Site

Diary and Photographs

My diary simply tells of my doings on the allotment and my own photographs are in the Photos section

New on the Site

Val (my wife) has taken over the recipes section of the site and it's been re-organised to help you find what you want. It's still got Val's Chutney & Jam Recipes and Member's recipes as well as Granny Dumplin's recipes.

I've revamped the seeds section of the shopping pages - and what a job it was! You can see Vegetable Seeds listed from Thompson & Morgan, Suttons and Dobies sorted into sections. Useful if you want to compare prices for the same variety. I've also listed the seeds with the RHS Award of Garden Merit and a selection of fruit trees, fruit bushes and nut trees.

In the Links, there is a new section on Gardening Magazines with links that enable you to subscribe at a discount.

One topic that comes up on the forums, is What to do now in the garden? - I hope this new monthly series of articles will be a good guide.

Poultry Pages

A lot of allotment holders and vegetable growers share an interest in good quality home produced food and after vegetables comes fresh eggs from your own laying hens. The Poultry Pages is devoted to 'backyard poultry keepers'. There are aricles on there by Katie Thear whose name will be known to many of you as she's been writing on keeping poultry and self sufficiency for many years.

Chatting on the Plot

If you need help or advice or can give advice, then the Allotment Growing Forum is the place to go. We’ve got 8121 active members and they’ve posted 351333 entries in 31071 topics! Once registered, you can put your photographs on there as well. Make your own personal gallery or just pop a photo in the album. The Photo Albums. Why not join in?

Allotment Shopping

I’ve teamed up with TwoWests & Elliott & Harrod Horticultural who have been supplying gardeners with quality equipment and sundries for many years as well as MowDirect for their great range of garden machinery. I know their quality is excellent and so is their service. You can just browse for interest – it’s fascinating what’s available or click on the product link to actually buy from them. Allotment Shopping

Gardening Equipment

Children Gardening Cold Frames, Cloches
Compost Bins Fertilisers, Trays, Pots etc
Fruit Cages Gardena Tools and Equipment
Greenhouse Equipment Greenhouses
Grow Lights, Lighting Power Heating and Insulation
Plant Protection Poly Tunnels
Poultry Equipment Propagation Propagators
Raised Deep Beds Thermometers, Testing Equipment
Tools and Equipment Ventilation and Shading
Water and Irrigation

Books

A selection of books I find interesting and may well interest you – they’re linked directly to Amazon where you can buy them online. There is also a Bookshop on the poultry pages where you can buy, often at a discount and with free UK delivery direct from Broad Leys Publishing.

Allotment Links

Other sites I hope you will find interesting.

Allotment AdviceAllotment AssociationsAllotment ChildrenAllotment DownshiftingAllotment GovernmentAllotment Personal SitesAllotment SitesAllotment WeatherFertiliser and SupplementsFinding AllotmentGarden CompostGarden DesignGarden Equipment SuppliersGarden Pest ControlGarden Plant SuppliersGarden SoftwareGardening HelpGardening MagazinesGeneral GardeningGreen LivingGrow LightsJohn's Web SitesMerry Tiller RotovatorMore Gardening EquipmentOrganic GardeningPermaculturePoultry EquipmentSeeds and SeedlingsSelf SufficiencyUK Poultry OrganisationsUK Seed SuppliersVegetable SocietiesWeed Control