All Hail The Tromboncino!
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Are you bored of your courgettes being blighted by mildew? Are you receptive to the simple amusement of a provocatively proportioned vegetable? Then tromboncinos are for you!
grow your own
Catching Up
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It dawned on me the other day that I’d written nothing about our garden and allotment for several months. This is me, making amends!
National Allotments Week 2021
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I am surprised and embarrassed to note that the last time I wrote on TFG’s blog was back in January. Where have the last […]
Glut Instinct
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“Growing your own produce is great if you want no food, then 400 tomatoes, then nothing, then 120 cucumbers, then nothing, then 3 carrots that […]
And So It Begins…
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It is official, we won’t go hungry this summer! Harvesting on the allotment has well and truly begun, especially the crop of courgettes, and […]
Garden Diary: May 2020 Part I
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Where, oh where did May go? No sooner had it started than June was upon us. Now it’s midsummer, the longest day is almost […]
The Plot Thickens…
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I have been meaning to write an update on the allotment for a little while now. While reading the previous chapter, I am wondering […]
Allot of Social Distancing
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If there can be any positive from the current worldwide situation it is the time that we now have at our disposal. We can […]
Horse Power
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We took on our new allotment exactly one month ago. As time marches on, we are happy in the knowledge that with each and […]
Dig For Victory!
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Has it really only been one week since Dan and I took on our allotment? Time has flown by. It feels like we have […]