Welcome!

I've nearly had my allotment for a full year now and recently I've been feeling the urge to share my obsession with other people. So, why have I chosen a blog to do this? Well, my first twelve months have been pretty successful - largely due to the globally warmed and dampened weather that we've been having - but also through all the tips and advice that I've managed to beg, steal and borrow on my horticultural trawls of the world wide web. I hope that I'll be able to share some of the enjoyment that I get from my plot, and that I may also be able to offer some advice to other people who are starting out with an allotment or vegetable garden.

My organic allotment is a large (ish) plot in North Manchester. I grow the veg that I love to eat and mainly concentrate on the cultivars that you never see in the shops. I've also got an apple tree, a few rows of raspberry canes and some black currant bushes. This year I'm also planning to use more space to grow cut flowers to bring the allotment into the house when I can't be out on the allotment.

It's all looking a little windswept at the moment with a few hardy brassicas still standing - it does amaze me the abuse that they'll take - and a bed of leeks and parsnips. But Spring is just round the corner and I can hardly wait to start growing again!

Comments

[Adrienne]

I like your blog! I am a fellow blogger that is trying to grow "naturally" while all the fools around me chuck Roundup on everything :-( I wanted mainly to plot my plot's progress so to speak and also so friends and family on the other side of the world can see what I am up to.But I am having trouble getting my blog known!! It is Pushing Up the Daisies at http://roos-and-camembert.blogspot.com/
I too am mostly a beginner - lucky you to have a greenhouse. Good luck with the spring!! the state of your plot after a year gives me a bit of hope for my own mess!!

[allotmenteer]

Good luck with the blog! Look forward to seeing more posts. I'll add a link from my site.

[Jude]

Is that Curly Kale you've got growing there?! - what a vegetable!!