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Friday, January 27, 2006

Let's hear it for the lady allotmenteers
A welcome number of women are getting allotments and changing the face of the little plots. Obviously, some of the old codgers aren't happy about this.

Neil Dixon, the chairman of the National Allotment Gardens Trust, said: "The reason for the conflict is different lifestyles. Often it is a shock for a flat-capped, red-nosed gardener of advancing years to find an attractive young woman on the plot next to him. He will probably be a bit disgruntled.

"But this kind of attitude is way out of date. Usually after a season they are all getting on famously and swapping seeds and advice."

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Saturday, January 14, 2006

The Green Gardener
Via City Hippy comes a link to Green Gardener, a resource for biological control of garden pests. I think I need a ladybird house or a frog home.

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Wednesday, January 11, 2006

allotment- battling entropy
allotment- battling entropy
allotment- battling entropy,
originally uploaded by spinneyhead.

I plan to win the battle and eat well because of it. Today i went to the plot for the first time this year. Two rows of double digging seemed enough. Next week i'm going to look for plants hardy enough for january planting. From then on it will be plant a row, dig a row until things are ready to be harvested.
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