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Allotment, seed and vegetable garden information

How to :
 Prepare Your Soil
The single most important element of your allotment is how you prepare your soil. Find out how click here

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Grow Vegetables
Find out what to look for and why you will get much better results with fresh seeds. click here

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Grow Herbs
Find out how to select Herbs and how you can easily divide them for higher yielding crops click here

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Grow Flowers
Do you want to grow Annuals or perennials ? Why cut flowers are fun and easy. click here

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Sell Products
Follow our step by step plan and not only will your allotment be fun - it can also be highly profitable! click here
 

Select the right Seeds for prize winning Vegetables !

This time of year is great to get ready for the coming season. No patch of land - whether on your allotment or garden - is to tiny to help you create a superb vegetable plot.

However those are features which are obvious and most are aware of when planning their season.  But there is a much more important feature not often considered - which are the best seeds to use on the allotment (or your vegetable and fruit garden). Select the right types will make a huge difference to results.   And there are also other items to consider - for example did yiou know that some seeds need more water than others ? just how far away are you from the water on tap ?

By far the best information we have seen in ages is in the book "Vegetable Garden Secrets"

It will help you with key items like How to create a planting table so you don't plant the wrong plants at the wrong time - too early or too late.    For more information click here

 

Grapes ?    This is a great time to start

With climate change - with the average temperature continuing to get warmer - this is the ideal time to consider growing grapes.

Written by a very successful wine grower our featured manual will show you how to grow juicy, successful grapes. 

It provides step by step advice ranging from how to prepare the soil to selecting the right vines have a look at our selected guide. click here

 

Recommended

"How to use Home Vegetables"

and herbs to earn extra cash

How to make your allotment pay

If you have some extra space on your allotment - or have to much fruit & vegetables....

Then why not turn this into a profitable side-line ?

This instantly downloaded manual will show you how to create natural skin care products using a variety of ingredients - many of which you can grow with ease

Click Here!

 

 

Help and Advice for Allotments and Vegetable Gardens

 

March Feature

Secrets the Allotment Prize Winners won't tell you

Read this article in detail to find out what champion allotment gardeners read at night

From the desk of Andrew Simms (senior editor)

Just imagine that day in late summer on your allotment when you are happily harvesting your crop.  The juicy tomatoes, crisp carrots and crunchy celery.  Every time you turn over the soil there are perfect potatoes, you fill bags and bags of them.  Let alone the stunning flowers you have been cutting from late spring onwards....

Sounds great doesn't it ? When you open any book, catalogue or allotment and vegetable website you will see perfect pictures.  The strawberries are just seconds away from being put in a bowl, even the salad has no blemishes, bugs or imperfect leaves. When you read the specialist allotment and vegetable garden books the concept of coping with a hosepipe ban, rabbits tucking into your crops or the mystery of the unpredictable potatoes yields seem years away.

Having had an allotment for many, many years - in 2 completely different parts of the country - I have spent many evenings consulting my gardening and growing vegetable books.  Surfing the internet for hours looking for hints and tips.  I always find it mystifying that the 'champion' allotment winners always have PERFECT RESULTS.  Yes, it could be the hours they spent but probably more importantly they have build up a fountain of knowledge over all the many years.

As I wanted this year to be my best ever year on my allotment I decided to make a detailed comparison of all the major vegetable garden and allotment books and reference guides. What struck me was how incomplete (and similar) they are.  Yes, they would all have the basics, which plants to put in in March, April, May...... (pretty useless if your march is so wet you can't walk on the soil, April is bone dry and your allotment is like concrete, etc.)

Because I wanted this to be as scientific as possible I decided to contact as many vegetable gardeners and allotment holders as I could. They all made the same comment - books are great for background info but "I get more useful information from Bill, Bob, etc.)

Having said that some of the prize winning allotment, vegetable and flower growers did let slip that they did have a few favourite books even they would consult. Books which they would read at night and not mention to often, as they contained snippets of information which will help make a good allotment into a GREAT allotment or vegetable garden. There were 2 books which kept being mentioned as containing useful information. Not the same rehashed content as everywhere else, but actually some very practical hints and tips.

These were the kind of books which:

  • Will make the difference between 'good' vegetables and prize winning vegetables

  • The type of information and help for your allotment you will want to consult time and time again

  • Particularly when it comes to such mundane items like compost will make you wonder why you had never heard that information before.

The books which will really help your allotment or vegetable garden I managed to unearth are mentioned below - but I am not sure how much longer they will be available online before the publishers decide that a hardback copy in the shops (at a far higher price) will be much more profitable.

 

 

"Home Vegetable Garden Secrets"
 


Hundreds of tips, techniques and secrets about vegetable gardens, such as

  • How to create a planting table so you don't plant the wrong plants at the wrong time - too early or too late

  • How to keep your plants living, reduce water use and save money, all at the same time

  • How to solve the problem of clay soils. You can have a wonderful garden even if you have clay soil--if you know how to properly prepare your garden

  • Many, many more

For details click here
 

 

Other books to consider

 

" How to make the World's Best Compost. "

Are you one of the many who has a compost heap at the bottom of the garden or corner of the allotment ?

Every wonder just how the most successful horticulturalists get their plants, flowers and vegetables to look so good ?

One of the secrets is the compost they use.  Rob Turners book contains Step by step advice on how to make Natural Fertilizer.  Without using Bins, Turning Or Odour    For details click Here!

 

"Companion Planting"

Why is it that some plants grow enthusiastically, while the same variety grown in another part of the garden or allotment is sickly or stunted? Could it be that some plants enhance the growth of each other and some hinder them?

 Laboratory research can now prove that certain plants contain natural insecticides. There are many proven examples of plants that benefit others, such as

" French Marigolds that can be used to clear the ground of nematodes. "


Companion Planting contains information, passed down through time, on which plants to grow together to achieve healthy, vibrant plants and vegetables - all crammed into a simple, easy to use guide. For details click Here!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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