Welcome to Allotment Growing
for allotment holders, growers
and gardeners.
Vegetable Growing
Month by Month
The bestselling guide to growing your own
With FREE SEEDS
Like many allotment holders in the UK, I enjoy growing vegetables, fruit and
herbs.
When we moved to our new house with its small suburban garden there
was little room to indulge my passion. A small herb bed and space for
a few salad crops. Around the corner I noticed an allotment site and contacted
the local council to see if they had any vacant allotments.
They put me on to the site rep who showed me around the site and the vacant allotment plots. I walked away
with a site key, the proud tenant of plot 5 - about 150 sq metres
of overgrown, wet heavy clay soil. Wonderful!
Once you have an allotment what could be better than another? So when it became vacant, I took on plot 29.
Allotments are a great hobby. They're cheap, you get healthy
exercise without having to pay for a gym or run around
in circles and you get to eat healthy fruit and vegetables
without all those (not so) yummy pesticides.
Most Popular Allotment Site in the UK!
I started this site as an online diary and to help others growing vegetables
on an allotment and now it's the most popular allotment
site in the UK! Amazing!
For the benefit of new US visitors - UK Allotments are plots of
land rented to individuals to grow vegetables on. There's
a brief history of allotments here
About the Allotment Web Site
Diary and Photographs
My diary simply
tells of my doings on the allotment and my own photographs
are in the Photos section
Vegetable & Fruit Growing, Cooking Help & Advice
Allotment
Articles
Help & Advice
As well as my books, I've put a lot of articles online to help you. They're listed on the right.
One topic that comes up on the forums, is What to do now in the garden? - I hope this new monthly series of articles will be a good guide. Month By Month
The allotment articles and vegetable growing guides are popular and for those interested more in cooking than growing, the Allotment Foods has a wealth of information.
If you are looking for an allotment - try reading this: Finding an Allotment
If you've just taken over an allotment then you're probably wondering how to clear it - these articles will help:
Clearing an Allotment and the funny You Have an Allotment!
Recipes, Making Jams & Preserves Etc
Val (my wife) runs the recipes section
of the site and it's been re-organised to help you
find what you want. It's got many of Val's
Chutney & Jam Recipes and Member's
recipes as well
as general wholefood recipes
Latest Allotment Recipes
In the Web Links, listed on the left, there is a section on Gardening
Magazines with links
that enable you to subscribe to some great gardening publications at a discount.
Poultry Pages
A lot of allotment holders and vegetable growers share an interest in
good quality home produced food and after vegetables comes fresh eggs
from your own laying hens. The
Poultry Pages is devoted to 'backyard poultry keepers'. There are
articles on there by Katie Thear whose name will be known to many of you
as she's been writing on keeping poultry and self sufficiency for many
years and from Virginia Shirt.
Chatting on the Plot
If you need help or advice or can give advice, then the Allotment
Growing Forum is
the place to go. We've got 14,087 active members and they've
posted 453,240 entries in 43,105 topics! Once registered,
you can even put your own photographs on there as well.
Allotment Shopping
I’ve teamed up with some reputable suppliers I know their quality is excellent and so is their service.
You can just browse for interest – it’s
fascinating what’s
available or click on the product link to actually
buy from them. Allotment
Shopping
The shop's main sections: Cookware - Seeds & Plants - Rotovators - Garden Machinery - Books - The Eco Shop - Special Offers & Discount Vouchers.
I've revamped the seeds section of the shopping pages - and what a job it was! You can see Vegetable Seeds listed from Thompson & Morgan, Suttons and Dobies sorted into sections. Useful if you want to compare prices for the same variety. I've also listed the seeds with the RHS Award of Garden Merit and a selection of fruit trees, fruit bushes and nut trees.
Books
A selection of books I find interesting and may well interest you – they’re
linked directly to Amazon where you can buy them online. There is also
a Bookshop on the poultry pages where you can buy, often at a discount
and with free UK delivery direct from Broad Leys Publishing.
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