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Novelty potatoes
Back in days of yonder, before the interweb, Sunday shop opening and decent food, Britain tuned in each Sunday night to watch a TV programme devoted to vegetables shaped like sexual organs and consume… more »
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Novelty potatoes
allotment5andahalf wrote 1 week ago: Back in days of yonder, before the interweb, Sunday shop opening and decent food, Britain tuned in e … more »
Rewards
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allotment5andahalf wrote 3 weeks ago: As the first earlies have failed to flower, I decided to lift one plant this morning to see what … more »
Trench warfare
allotment5andahalf wrote 3 weeks ago: Digging the pea trench… And, the after shot: cardboard, grass clippings, wet newspaper and h … more »
Queue-in: Bideford post office, 8.45 am, Monday 23 June
allotment5andahalf wrote 1 month ago: There will be a queue-in at Bideford post office this coming Monday in protest of the proposed clos … more »
Thanks for asking
allotment5andahalf wrote 1 month ago: My potato in a pot has made a stuttering recovery. The offending leaves have been plucked. Bordeaux … more »
Onion seeds
allotment5andahalf wrote 1 month ago: Pretty cool new camera, eh? Onion seed heads off a bolted plant in the raised bed. It’s a pla … more »
Beans means...
allotment5andahalf wrote 1 month ago: The beans are in. Cue: wind. I have a new toy, with which I have still not come to terms. Instructi … more »
More cuttings
allotment5andahalf wrote 1 month ago: From the North Devon Gazette: On Torridgeside, hundreds of local residents turned out to pledge sup … more »
Blight!
allotment5andahalf wrote 1 month ago: This rather sorry looking specimen is my competition potato. I think it’s got blight. After n … more »
Peas and beans update
allotment5andahalf wrote 1 month ago: As you can see, nine out of ten runner beans have germinated and eight out of ten pea plants. In fa … more »
Closure programme 'bonkers'
allotment5andahalf wrote 1 month ago: Hot of the press, the North Devon Journal reports: Two years ago public funding was allocated to re … more »
The morning after the night before
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allotment5andahalf wrote 1 month ago: A packed meeting last night heard why the Post Office wants to close our post office, why parishio … more »
Less politicking, more digging
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allotment5andahalf wrote 1 month ago: No, I’ve not been composting certain plants. I have, however, been up to everything but diggi … more »
Letters pages
allotment5andahalf wrote 1 month ago: Both the North Devon Gazette and the North Devon Journal carried letters this week in response to t … more »
North Devon Journal - 'P.O. closures: 'elderly and disbaled suffer most'
allotment5andahalf wrote 1 month ago: More from the local press about closures in the area. This article focuses on how the closures will … more »
'Village Scene' - Message from Keith Horwell
allotment5andahalf wrote 1 month ago: l Our shop owner, Keith Horwel, wrote for the Village Scene magazine this month. Keith urges every r … more »
Letter from Geoffrey Cox
allotment5andahalf wrote 1 month ago: Last weekend, in a flurry of activity, I left comments on Geoffrey Cox’s website. Yesterday, I … more »
Peas 'n' beans
allotment5andahalf wrote 1 month ago: As those of you in the south of England will agree, this was a typical bank holiday Monday: wind (ga … more »
Geoffrey Cox MP - "Save our post offices"
allotment5andahalf wrote 1 month ago: Our local MP, Geoffrey Cox, is behind the campaign to save rural post offices from closure. He has … more »
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