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  • Fromelette Recipe

    Fromelette Recipe

    So, we’d like to share our first recipe made with ingredients from some of our allotment goodies! We called this a fromelette as we think it’s technically somewhere between a frittata and an omelette. It’s quick and easy enough that even I can’t make a mess out of it! Ingredients (Serves 2-3) For the base1x…

    October 12, 2025
  • The mischievous cat

    Anyone following us on instagram might see various photos where I’ve put sticks and twigs all over the soil, so I thought I’d put down a bit of an explainer! We have a regular visitor to our plot; a grey tabby cat. It’s a friendly enough cat who occasionally comes over to say hello when…

    October 9, 2025
  • Our love affair with Spain 

    What will become apparent the longer you read our posts and check out bits and pieces on our blog is that we are huge fans of Spain. Carl is obsessed by Malaga, I prefer the vibe of Madrid 🙂 On our first trip to Spain together we went for some tea at a local market…

    October 8, 2025
  • How to ripen tomatoes!

    As the days are now getting shorter and unfortunately the sun seems to be playing hide and seek, it’s now getting to that time when the remaining tomatoes need to be picked and bought home to ripen. We had a lovely hour at the allotment on Sunday collecting tomatoes which were still not quite ready…

    October 6, 2025
  • Carrots gone v wrong 😆

    We also promised to tell you about our failures as well as our successes. Here are our carrots;

    September 22, 2025
  • Tips to get rid of caterpillars 

    On my arrival at the allotment I usually carry out a quick inspection to see how everyone is doing and behaving. I popped over to the purple sprouting brocolli and saw that someone or something had given it a right old nibble. On closer inspection I saw millions of little black eggs all over the…

    September 22, 2025
  • The accident…

    So, we had just received the amazing news that we had finally reached the top of the list for an allotment. We went to view it in late August 2024 and to be honest, it was a right ****hole and I stood there thinking how the hell are we going to get this mess cleared…

    September 21, 2025
  • How it all began….(Carl)

    So I’ve been asked by Vin to write a few words about how all this began. Buckle in folks, this is gonna be a bit of a journey! Just kidding, it’s probably the same story as about 90% of folk who have an allotment, but it did start during one of the most monumental moments…

    September 20, 2025

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