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..hope all are well and looking forward to the off! - this is from 2015:- we've picked 40lbs of currants this year off our four bushes - too many for us really but... current supermarket price would be £1800 - we pay £20 a year for our allotment = if you can't grow at home, get yourself an allotment!

Thanks both :) I did have a few more pics to add but I ran out of stuff to say lol

Earlier in the year we used our cloche to bring on early potatoes - this photo was taken on May 1st potclocheMay1st.jpg Geoff Hamilton once showed us a test he was doing with two identical plots - same flowers - same veg - same soil, one was grown with the 'help' of synthetic chemicals, the other no...

broccoli.jpg Last year we did well with french, broad and runner beans, the beetroot, potatoes, cabbage and broccoli were good... we planted four redcurrants bushes but the strawberry bed was a little tired, so we reset a new one for this year... and we'd picked 20lb of autumn raspberries by Septem...

Hi - I haven't been here since 2008! - Karen and I keep tidy gardens for a living but I had a hip replacement recently so would like to share (click to enlarge) some pictures of our allotment from the last few years. Most of our work these days is at "new build" over 55 / 60's sites where ...

Hi there, I have two books just about making compost- the one that showed me all I needed to know is called 'Composting' by Dick Kitto. There are quite a few others, have a look on, - www.abebooks.co.uk, just punch in, in the title box -'composting' and see what comes up.