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Woohoo!

I have an allotment! (And a critique of Jamie Oliver’s Ministry of Food in my drafts folder, which is less exciting right now.) I think I have correctly identified which one it is and it appears to have two apple trees on it, plus some dead beans, some pink flowers and some beds covered in black plastic – fortunately not lots of brambles and couchgrass! Hopefully not too much work to do to it. Might plant lots of garlic when I get back from holiday.

And then I got locked in and had to climb over a gate to get out, which was an inauspicious start to my allotmenting career…

4 comments October 8, 2008


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