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Spring

5 hour Easter lamb

After the flood

Asparagus and gladioli

Asparagus and tulips

Back to life

Back to the jungle

Battle of the bramble

Blossom and grass

Bonus crops

Carrots and spring onions: hope over experience

Catkins and cowslips

Chelsea musings

Daffodils and bonfires

Dealing with disappointment

Declaring war on weeds

Feeling like farmers

First harvest of the year

First seeds of the year

Four seasons in one day

Good Friday?

Heligan in March

Hop on board

Hop twine bean poles

Inspiration and perspiration

It’s me, Sunflower!

Keukenhof, Amsterdam

Marry a carpenter

More seed sowing

More seeds

More seeds: leeks, sunflowers, early salads

Nettles and sorrel

Outdoors-ing it

Roots and shoots

Sowing the HAs and HHAs

Sowing the seeds of…hardy annuals actually

Spring wildflowers: Yellow, white and blue

Spring, sprung

Sun, straw and plenty of annuals

Sunflower Club

The allotment season begins

The daring poles of May

The early March allotment

The full sowing list

The Great Allotment Plant-Out

The great crysanth plant-out

The hopolisk is risen

The new organic garden

The plant-out begins

The seed list, 2021

We plough the fields

Summer

A summer of mixed fortune

After the deluge

All the things I’ve messed up

Allotmenting for wildlife

Artichokes, Part 1

Artichokes, part 2

August National Trust-ing

August pickings

Birds and bees and bugs

Blackcurrant leaf sorbet

Blossom end rot and the first stick beans

Broad beans and artichokes

Coming into abundance

Cornflowers, broad beans and blackcurrants

Cornish wild flowers

Courgette humble-pie

Dream vs reality

End of the broad beans

Eton vs Grange Hill vs The Hopolisk

Gardening with the enemy

Gooseberry, strawberry & almond crumble

Harvest before the deluge

He knows his onions

Heading to drought?

Hired thugs

In praise of horta

Into the greenhouse

June Bobby broad-bean salad

June in review

June on the allotment

Kent part 1: Perch Hill

Kent part 2: Sissinghurst and Great Dixter

Kiftsgate Court Gardens

Last resorts

Learning to live with chaos

Midsummer allotment

Notes for next year

Now they split! High maintenance tomatoes

Perking up

Planting out

Rain stops play

Reaping what we (didn’t always) sow

Reflecting on a year-round harvest

Risotto primavera

Sausage and (broad) beans on toast

So it’s summer?

Stars of the season

Summer inspiration

Summer rain

Sunburn and black kale

Take a kilo of blackcurrants…

The Brassica Protection System

The early August allotment

The early June allotment

The floral dance

The hop harvest

The July allotment

The July glut

The last day of summer

The tip of season’s change

The trendiest weed of all

Thinking ahead

Urban foraging

Autumn

A question of life and death

A question of squash

Allotmenting as stress relief

Autumn cleaning

Autumn clearance

Autumn is here

Chrysanthemums Illustrated

Cobnuts and clearing

Drying the autumn harvest

End of year figures

Finally, fireworks

First frosts and whiskey cake

Humble (pumpkin) pie

It’s dirty work but…

Missed hopportunity

Muck spreading

Normal service resumes

Notes for 2020

Now is the winter of our discontent

October is the new August

October pickings

Over-wintering

Pictures of autumn

Pictures of autumn

Poo and beans

Rain stops play

Reaping what you sow

September pickings

Succot-hash

Sweet potato & pumpkin curry

The drying room

The November allotment

Too many tulips? Never!

Urban decay

Wedding flowers and wedding cake(s)

Winter

A big pile of poo

A confusion of seasons

A spot of pruning

Blackberries and PSB

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Chrysanthemum care

Cut flowers in mid-winter

First sowing of the year: sweet peas

Frostbite and reclaimed land

Hello winter!

Hints of spring

Look what’s here!

Pause for breath

Planning and plotting

Pruning time

Review of the year: 2015

Seeds are here, tomatoes are in

Seeds of optimism

Sweet peas are made of this

The January allotment

The planting diary

Veg patch to bed, rather later than planned

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