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hello, hedgewizard and welcome to the site

I'm in with my allotment...good idea, although I didn't put the allotment name,I couldn't see how to do it.

I want t oplant some sweet potatoes on my allotment in the nw of England. Can anyone tell me how to go about it please? Do I get seed sweet potoatoes just like my normal spuds or if not, then what ...and where and ,if possible, how? thanks in anticipation

it's not just food that' the problem it is also all the cleaning products....most of which we don't need anyway. They are just invented to make us buy them and then the advertising aims to make us feel guilty if we don't. There are many miles used in this totally unnecessary way.

I am about t omake pumpkin soup..is it better with or without lentils as I love both and have lots of pumpkins left

thanks for this post. I have just found 3 beeking courses for beginners in my area. Acouple of us are going to keep bees on the allotments this year. I don't think the vadels will worry them.. at least I don't think they will do it twice!

my onion seeds have been in for ages now ...but indoors...nothing outdoors yet, just getting everything ready

sprout is a great title
ps wher do you get that smallholding mag please?...is it uk?

all my books say ( as do the oldies on the plots) potatoes, then brassicas, the legumes and finally roots...then start again
Make sure that you don't put lime (or mushroom compost) wher e you are putting your spuds and put plenty of manure where your legumes are going....works for me!

good luck with your new plot, Andy, hope it goes well. Our plots have had some empty for ages but just recently they have all been taken, even those that are overgrown....and I mean OVERGROWN!. It seems to becoming quite tredy for people to have an allotment I think. Has there been any programmes ab...

our allotments are all different sizes and it is really quite arbitary. If we think they are too small we combine them and call them large. Alarge plot is £18 per year and a smallone is£16...so it's not a great difference....but really the plots vary enormously....and non are measured in poles...

we've just had a lot of vandalism at our lotie. We knew which school the kids came from as we recognised the uniforms. I rang the headteacher and complained and he immediately sent the head of pupil services over to the allotments to see us. eventually the kids were identified and they admitted it a...

my friend has had a quince tree in her garden for years...she just leaves it to get on with things. Her garden is damp..has lots of frogs....and the quinc tree just seems to make up it's own mind...sometimes there are lots of fruit, last year ..very little. Quince jelly is lovely, I'd give it a go

I've planted herbs from the supermarkets when they were on their last legs and they are still growing fine in the herb patch...also planted from seed and have found no difference.....it could be the neglect that I heap on them

my partner ran his family butcher's firm for about 40 years, bought and sold cattle and worked in an abbatoir. He tells me that the big producers, who sell to the supermarkets sell exactly the SAME meat as organic as non organic. The difference? They leave it to hang in the fridge for a few weeks lo...