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discovered tonight that a lovely lady, Secretary of The Scottish Allotments and Gardens Society, who writes a regular light hearted column in The Scotsmans weekend magazine
was so impressed by a workshop I hosted at a SAGS seminar a few years back included a wee piece about me in December.
I know it's not much of a moment of fame but it might be all I get so here's the bit about me.
The kind of compost which comes out of the compost bin is not the same as potting compost which can lead to some confusion. Like Tony at the Botanics, Frank is another perfectionist and enthusiast.
He grows prize-winning vegetables on his Aberdeen allotment. No bags of shop-bought multi-purpose potting compost perform well enough for his exacting requirements.
With recipes that evoke Macbeth's witches, he blends a bucket of this with a scoopful of that and mixes it all in a cement mixer. While a cement mixer hasn't made it on to my Christmas list, I am glad that there are people like Frank prepared to go to such lengths to achieve the best results.
This article was first published in The Scotsman, 11 December, 2010
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was so impressed by a workshop I hosted at a SAGS seminar a few years back included a wee piece about me in December.
I know it's not much of a moment of fame but it might be all I get so here's the bit about me.
The kind of compost which comes out of the compost bin is not the same as potting compost which can lead to some confusion. Like Tony at the Botanics, Frank is another perfectionist and enthusiast.
He grows prize-winning vegetables on his Aberdeen allotment. No bags of shop-bought multi-purpose potting compost perform well enough for his exacting requirements.
With recipes that evoke Macbeth's witches, he blends a bucket of this with a scoopful of that and mixes it all in a cement mixer. While a cement mixer hasn't made it on to my Christmas list, I am glad that there are people like Frank prepared to go to such lengths to achieve the best results.
This article was first published in The Scotsman, 11 December, 2010
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