Grow Your Own Magazine

The wild things like nettles, brambles, grass, thistles, that's weeds I suppose are growing faster than the things I've sown and planted.

I'm working part time at the moment and busy helping someone with urgent paperwork so the visits to the allotment have decreased and it was a bit of a shock when I saw it after not going there for a week. It looks my plot has the potential to go wild and unite with the bramble patch next door at any moment.

Trying to be positive...

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Nice surprise when visited the allotment on Monday and saw how much of the plot my helpers had cleared while I cooked their Sunday lunch.

This week planted more peas which I hope will survive the neglect of the next couple of weeks. Also made a make do and mend version of a raised bed from lawn edging and sowed mixed lettuce leaves in organic compost in it. I intend to harvest this by picking leaves as and when ready and needed, rather than cutting the whole lettuce. This method...

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