http://allotmenteer.co.uk Online community for allotment gardeners Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:07:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's amazing how time just passes by! It's easter weekend already, and while I haven't done an awful lot on my plot since last update, there's a few things I can tell you all about. Easter weekend is usually the time of the year when most allotment plotholders start to get ... http://allotmenteer.co.uk/2009/04/10/what-easter-already-time-to-get-stuck-in/ Today is officially the first day of spring. Time to get started back at the allotment, and get the plot ready for a new season of growing. I made the first proper visit to my plot yesterday, and spent a few productive hours, getting a few jobs done. I'm in the ... http://allotmenteer.co.uk/2009/03/01/the-first-day-of-spring/ Something new has been added to the Allotmenteer.co.uk website: The Allotment Info Sheets! Actually, the page from where you'll be able to get your hands on (hopefully) a lot of these sheets in the future, has been online for a few weeks, but today the first sheet has been uploaded today. The ... http://allotmenteer.co.uk/2009/02/04/the-allotment-info-sheets/ I suspect most visitors to the Allotmenteer.co.uk website will be familiar with eBay. After all it's one of the most well known, and visited, websites in the world. Basically, eBay is the biggest car boot sale on the surface of the planet. So, why would this be interesting to allotment plotholders? ... http://allotmenteer.co.uk/2009/01/21/ebay-for-allotmenteers/ As I promised in my previous post, 2009 is going to be a year where a lot of things will take place here on Allotmenteer.co.uk, and the first visible result is the newly opened Allotmenteer Bookstore. The Allotmenteer Bookstore offers a wide range of allotment books and allotment DVD's that will ... http://allotmenteer.co.uk/2009/01/10/new-the-allotmenteer-bookstore/ Another year has passed and for many people, me included, it's time to stop and take stock of the past year and make plans for the year ahead. There's no doubt about it – 2008 was a disappointing year for me as an allotmenteer – as well as a webmaster of ... http://allotmenteer.co.uk/2009/01/01/happy-new-year-2/ Wow! Wait a minute. I just remembered that I have this website on allotmenteer.co.uk, logged in, and noticed my last posting to the site dates back nearly 4 months! OK - let's say it was during winter this happened - you could sort of understand. But as it happens summer is ... http://allotmenteer.co.uk/2008/08/26/time-flies/ Yesterday was a day of great achievement in my allotmenteer career. After 18 months of hard work I finished double-digging my entire plot! This means that every bit of soil on my plot has now been dug over, using my "Cheat version" of double digging. In reality, even though this technique ... http://allotmenteer.co.uk/2008/05/04/i-made-it/ As I told you last week, I ordered a new wormery to go on my allotment plot (eventually). I had 2 reasons for buying a new wormery. First of all I wasn't too impressed with the one I bought last year (for more money than what I paid for the ... http://allotmenteer.co.uk/2008/04/29/my-new-wormery-is-up-and-running/ I saw a very interesting feature on the BBC breakfast programme this morning. Apparantly it's now "in" to go to the green gym. So what is a green gym then? Simply a number of community projects set up for people to come and do some gardening activities, and do a bit ... http://allotmenteer.co.uk/2008/04/23/has-anyone-been-to-the-green-gym/