Mature Times - Allotments

Digging for Victory

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:30:02 +0000

First there was Bert. An amiable heavyweight, he’d journey cautiously to his allotment plot on a creaking bike, his trousers tucked into his socks, a black shopping bag looped over the handlebars...but times have moved on in our neck of the North Kent woods - A new breed of allotment holder has emerged.

Plot 181 and a half - or the Greenish Gym

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:17:36 +0000

Bliss oh bliss, I am retired - or nearly. And joy of joys, after TWO years of waiting and pleading for half an allotment plot, it looks as though - with a following wind - I may be able to take over the said plot in two weeks!

The allotment lottery

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:54:54 +0000

Getting the most out of a small garden or allotment, whilst keeping the beasties at bay, is all about crop rotation and companion planting, explains MT’s Gardening Guru Carole Davies.

Life through the five bar gate

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:27:00 +0000

MT reader Joan Renton tells of the joys of allotment ownership.

Runner Beans & Toilet Training

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:29:59 +0000

Toilet roll manufacturers have spent millions of pounds and years of research trying to find a way to get rid of the middle of toilet rolls. Expensive transportation and shelf space is taken up with the holes in the middle, but I've now found a use for the little cardboard tubes: you can grow runner beans in them!

One man went to hoe

Wed, 01 Jun 2005 19:17:45 +0100

Steve Jones continues to discover the secret joys of having his own allotment

Tom and Barbara are to blame!

Sun, 01 May 2005 11:37:53 +0100

The Good Life has a lot to answer for. As Steve Jones has discovered, growing your own food can be bad for your health!