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Anne’s Patch: Strange times for allotmenteering
When the Prime Minister announced the lockdown back in March, writes Anne Akers, I was listening intently for him...
30 April 2020
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Anne’s Patch: Ten top allotment tips
This will be my sixth year as an allotmenteer and I can confidently predict that this year I will...
22 March 2020
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Anne’s Patch: Reaping what I’ve sown
I know I’ve said this nearly every month, but it’s been a funny old year on the allotment, writes...
20 August 2019
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Anne’s Patch: The mice ate the beans!
Allotmenteering has a learning curve, sometimes I think it’s never going to stop curving upwards, writes Anne Akers. Every...
7 July 2019
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Anne’s Patch: Slug pellet ban!
From the end of June, we won’t be allowed to sell slug pellets containing metaldehyde from our allotment shop,...
5 June 2019
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Anne’s Patch: We’ve got the ‘Ferrari’ of the compost bin world!
It’s looking lively! May is when it all really starts to kick off down at the allotment, writes Calverley...
7 May 2019
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Anne’s Patch: Calverley cats and dirty potatoes down on the allotment
Our cats love this time of year, there are trays of dirty potatoes in the conservatory just waiting to...
5 April 2019
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Anne’s Patch: All quiet on the allotment front – for now …
The allotment has been in hibernation over the winter, a bit like me, really! writes Anne Akers. Visits have...
4 March 2019
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Anne’s Patch: Hard work on the allotment, but there’s nowhere I’d rather be!
Everything’s sleeping on the allotment – even the vegetables which are over-wintering look as if they are yawning, writes...
6 December 2018
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Anne’s Patch: Dead man’s boots
The annual rent is due and now’s the time for allotmenteers to commit to another year of hard work...
8 November 2018