The Pain Of Dealing With Equisetum arvense (Mare's Tail / Horse's Tail)

All gardeners, allomenteers, grow your own specialists and humble window box growers know that weeds are the bane of our existence. They are a right pain to get on top of any sometimes when you think you have got them all they come back with avenges and they take over what every you are trying to...

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I Nearly Completely Gave Up On This Blog

So, to be completely honest with you all I had completely written off this blog as I never thought I had the time to come on here and write and post and upload it. It was more of a chore then a pleasure to get it all done but after recently watching and listening to a lot of Gary Vayner-chuck...

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A Lot Can Get Done In Three Months

It has been 3 months since my last post and I am so sorry readers. It has been very busy here with my returning to full time work and trying to catch up with all the back log I left before I left at Christmas. During the last few months we have been able to get up the allotment and during them...

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The Fence Task Was Completed

It’s been a long time since the last post and it’s not because I didn’t want to post anything, it’s just that the weather and other commitments have kept us away from the plot. If your not from the UK you might not have know that it snowed here recently and us British people don’t cope well with...

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The Planning of Our Allotment Plot

I have been thinking long and hard what I would like to do with the plot, it is a lot bigger then an average size allotment plot standing at 100 square meters in total. Now that is a very big plot to have, the only unfortunate thing about having this plot is that there is no water access on...

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Getting The Plot In Order

As I said in our previous post, we started renting out allotment at the end of September 2018. It was in a right state when I first walked onto the plot with weeds as high as me and I stand at 5’9.  There was some benefits to the plot tho, she (yes I do refer to the plot as a...

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Introducing Ourselves

Hello all and thank you for taking the time to take a few minutes out of your day to read our first ever blog post. I think it might be best if we introduce ourselves first so you know who we are and a little about ourselves. My name is Michael and my beautiful partner is Dawn, we are both...

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