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Sunday, October 30, 2005
King of the allotments
George Monbiot has gone crazy and got five allotments, so he doesn't have to buy onions air lifted from New Zealand. He's a bit disparaging of box schemes where I'll sing their praises as a way to get locally grown produce.
via Horticultural, also the source of the Allotment Register.
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George Monbiot has gone crazy and got five allotments, so he doesn't have to buy onions air lifted from New Zealand. He's a bit disparaging of box schemes where I'll sing their praises as a way to get locally grown produce.
via Horticultural, also the source of the Allotment Register.
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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Indoor composting
Living in a second floor flat it's not easy to compost for the allotment. A wormery would have to go outside and risk the weather and marauding squirrels and kids, so maybe I should think about getting EmPowered.
Mind you, a value starter pack costs £95.
via Hippyshopper
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Living in a second floor flat it's not easy to compost for the allotment. A wormery would have to go outside and risk the weather and marauding squirrels and kids, so maybe I should think about getting EmPowered.
Effective microOrganisms are a carefully controlled mixture of microscopic bacteria, yeasts and fungi that work together to speed-up composting, suppress pathogens (no e-coli in an EmPowered composter), prevent putrefaction and eliminate bad odors. Working together they deliver a four-way knock-out blow against all the problems that beset conventional composters. EmPowering your composting is simple, really simple, in fact it's the easiest to use composting system we've ever tried.
Mind you, a value starter pack costs £95.
via Hippyshopper
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Sunday, October 23, 2005
The Allotment: Welcome back to the jungle
The allotment has been neglected for the last couple of months, which is a crime. I think it was mostly that we didn't expect to get anything off it this year, so we let it be. I visited earlier this week and it was almost back to the state we found it in.
However, the ground is damp now and easier to dig and turn, so half an hour of double digging turned a row over. I'm back on my bike and the allotment is on my way home from work, so it's going to see a bit more attention and at least half of it should be ready for planting come Spring.
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The allotment has been neglected for the last couple of months, which is a crime. I think it was mostly that we didn't expect to get anything off it this year, so we let it be. I visited earlier this week and it was almost back to the state we found it in.
However, the ground is damp now and easier to dig and turn, so half an hour of double digging turned a row over. I'm back on my bike and the allotment is on my way home from work, so it's going to see a bit more attention and at least half of it should be ready for planting come Spring.
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Monday, October 10, 2005
Strange fruit
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The produce aisles have become more akin to a beauty pageant with their glossy red tomatoes, scrubbed stalks of celery, blemish-free apples and pleasingly rounded oranges.
But a growing number of food campaigners say that in this quest to make everything we buy visually flawless, we have lost something more important: taste.
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