Hello from Hackney

[stokeygrower]

Hi. I share an allotment with a friend, have a small city garden too, and am very keen on wild city food. Specialise in adopting unloved fruit trees and have just had 7 kilos of Victoria plums from my nice but slightly bewildered neighbours. Plum jam, plum conserve, plum cake, roast plums with star anise, cinnammon and vanilla, fresh plums, frozen plums....who needs PYO? Well I do actually, as I haven't found any orphan gooseberries yet.

Found the site while trying to Google information on how to construct a cool (as in temperature rather than style) larder cupboard in the kitchen of my not huge inner city London flat, for keeping fruit and veg , plus other stuff best not refrigerated. Looks like there's lots of knowledgeable folk here, so I'm hoping to learn. So far I've drawn a blank on the web, but am pursuing the idea of putting a new air brick in the base of the external wall, building an insulated cupboard in front of it and having a vent to the outside at the top, so it draws up and out. What do you think?

[pumpy]

Hello,Stokey,......don't see how you can better that idea. Good luck. (you'll be sick of plums before long!!)

[Rosendula]

Hi

[Millymollymandy]

Hello and welcome! I bet most of us are very jealous of your plums!

[hedgewitch]

Used to live in Hackney myself.

[StripyPixieSocks]

Hello

[prison break fan]

Lucky you with your plums. The late frosts got ours! pbf

[sleepyowl]

hello

[Barry]

Hello and Welcome