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Gluten Free Zesty Courgette Muffins

These are easy to make and very tasty! A great way to use courgettes from your garden or allotment to make a sweet treat. These might be gf but nothing is lost by switching to gluten free flour. Why gluten free? My lovely friend, Mrs T, was diagnosed as Coeliac a few years ago and…

Lime and Courgette Cake

This is an easy to make and very tasty cake! A perfect bake if you’ve lots of courgettes growing on your allotment or in your garden. Ingredients 180g unsalted butter or margarine 250g caster sugar 2 eggs 350g finely grated courgette (squeeze out as much of the excess liquid as you can from the courgette)…

Our Allotment… Our ‘Happy Place’

When I told Mr C I’d put my name down for an allotment he thought I was crazy. Three years later, in March 2015, we finally got a half plot… 5B… it was very overgrown! We soon discovered that we had the dreaded Prehistoric Mares Tail weed growing across 5B! In the three year wait…

Christmas is coming…

Christmas is coming and our sprouts are growing well…

Allotment Open Day – August 2018

Tomorrow marks the start of National Allotment Week so we held an Open Day on our allotment site today. A huge thank you those who came today… you know who you are! It was ace to see lots of people around our allotment site. In winter we can go weeks without seeing anyone else. We…

July Allotment Goodies

It’s mid July 2018 and everything is starting to look happy up at our allotment. We’ve had lots of sunshine again this week though not quite as warm and finally we had some rain earlier on in the week which has definitely helped everything grow since Sunday. Tonight we’ve dug up our first potatoes of…

Growing Weather

This week our allotment was definitely growing well. We’ve had lots of warm sunshine for a few weeks but no rain… thank heavens we have a water supply at the plot so our raised beds have stayed well watered.

Sunny Days Up At The Plot

Another bank holiday weekend and more glorious sunshine and warm weather in West Leeds. Lots of heavy duty weeding done by Mr C while I did more gentle weeding in the raised beds. More seeds sowed and some of the plants we’ve grown at home are now in their final growing position. A few more…

Pop Goes The Rhubarb!

When do you know if your forced rhubarb has worked? When it pops the lid off! Ta dar!!! I’m proud of this for our first attempt.

Can You Hear The Birds And The Bees?

Today has been a glorious day up at the allotment. The birds were singing, bees were buzzing around our daffodils and the sun was shining! 14 degrees was definitely t-shirt weather in West Leeds! Mr C planted some Charlotte potatoes in one of our small raised beds. A layer of manure first to create a…