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ps it freezes well too

I've been giving lots away as well and I'm making lots of crumble ,but it does make delicious rhubarb and ginger jam

you will always get theives where there are people I'm afraid. On our allotments ever the plot holders themselves pinch from each other...vegetables are often going missing...I .lost a lot of onions last year

I have finally got round to joining a bee keeping group and learning about bees....are there people on this site who keep bees, I seem to remember that there are...I hope they won't mind if I appeal for help and advice now and then.

not all city dwellers are bad or unreasonable. Some people are silly, bad tempered, unreasonable, and /or just plain stupid. Where they live is irrelevant to these traits...they can be city dwellers or country dwellers.

I have several of those big green compost bins as well as some made from recycled pallets and they all make decent compost. i put in all veggie waste, urine ( when taken short on the lottie), grass cuttings in small quantities, weeds, pigeon muck and anything else I can get hold of...I water it, tur...

I have just received my t shirt as the 2nd prise in the quiz last year, it's great...slightly too large but never mind.....thanks very much Andy

hiya, Upahill and welcome to th site. i used t olive in Donegal on a farm but am urban England now with allotments.

I add composted grass or just put grass cuttings in when I am planting stuff as, when the grass rots down it produces an acidic compost...good for the spuds. Also avoid putting mushroom compost on the soil as this contains lime.

it's not that cold here despite the snow....we are putting broad bean seeds in pots and onion sets in the ground...nothing else yet as I am about to go on holiday and watering would be a problem

tha allotments are a really good community. At ours everyone helps each other out and the younger ones dig the plots of the old guys. everyone shares seeds, seedlings, and of course the harvest. the vegetables are just passed round. I was given some leeks on Sunday, just picked and washed...made bea...

I am the secretary at our allotment site and we currently have a waiting list of 10. There are 144 plots..all different sizes ,but roughly "large" and "small". The small ones are £17.75 per year and the large ones are £19.75. Rents are due on 1st January but I am just sendi...

I can't believe it's like that all over France. I have had excellent meat from a market in Paris (I'm veggie but my partner is a butcher and very fussy about his meat), and also, on many occasions from markets in the Auvergne and down south....never had a problem with fresh veg. when my son lived in...

the only water we had on the farm in ireland when I was a kid was the well and we never had any trouble or illness. I wouldn't worry about it

My giant onion seedlings are up and doing fine but they are in the spare room....everything is covered in snow on the allotment