NomeGrown

We don't have a very big lawn in our garden, but it still managed to be a lot of trouble - it had become infested with couchgrass and lo...

When I started out with an allotment, I wish someone had told me the importance of edges. I thought we could just dig the plot over and it w...

When we started out on our allotment we planted three little 'columnar' fruit trees near the pond, in what was supposed to be our he...

The bottom end of our allotment has never been very productive - unless you count couchgrass and nettles. When we first dug it over the soil...

Despite having a long list of jobs I need to get done before the growing season starts again, very little is happening on the plot at the mo...

Think about allotments or growing-your-own, and digging is probably one of the first activities that comes to mind. But digging, it seems, i...

I'm finally starting to face up to the fact this is a bad, bad year for growing. Between torrential rain and scorching sun, and thank...

Come on now, this is getting silly. I know we're in a drought situation (whatever that actually means) but we still need sunshine too, a...

Three weeks ago the allotment pond was absolutely choked with blanketweed and algae. The tadpoles were hatching but they could barely move, ...

Well okay, it's hardly a picnic, but with everything springing back to life after winter there is a lot of free food to be had out ther...