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Sweet peas

By Jane Moore on 15/08/2008 14:37:02

I'm not a great one for growing flowers on my plot. Maybe I shy away from raising flowering plants on the allotment because I grow so many in my main job (as head gardener at The Bath Priory Hotel). I've grown marigolds as companion plants


Growing kale

By Jane Moore on 22/05/2009 13:45:31

from every corner of the plot - far better than any show of wallflowers. They're also attracting bees and hoverflies, which is definitely a good thing, especially as there's not much else in flower on the plot at the moment. But they've got to go. I


Wasps and wasps' nests

By Lila Das Gupta on 05/03/2010 16:41:05

.I was blissfully unaware of wasps' nests till one summer at the allotment, when I got stung on my bottom (oh the indignity of it all!). On my next visit to the plot I was stung again and on the following visit I received two further stings. It was only then that I


Potato blight and Bordeaux Mixture

By Lila Das Gupta on 16/04/2010 14:49:16

, but the new site I'm on has suffered from it terribly.A blight warning - sometimes called the Smith Period - occurs when there have been two consecutive days with temperatures of at least 10? and relative humidity has been above 90%.I try to grow vegetables


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