Hi, if you grow or want to grow vegetables & fruit organically then this is the site for you.

I have raised beds(about four feet wide) so I never walk on the soil. I do not have edging boards since I discovered they just provided a hidey hole for slugs. I have an allotment which I keep chemical free, partly because it's healthier but also because the produce tastes so good, especially when freshly picked. All the experts say to keep the time from picking to cooking short with sweetcorn, asparagus and peas, but it is true of everything .Having raised beds helps me to rotate the crops to keep the ground free from disease.

My plot is alive with flowers which attract insects, mainly Pot Marigolds and Californian Poppies. I have moderated the excesses of my early years when I think I was known as the “Flower Man”, but the overall appearance is still rather chaotic compared to most. I am also attracted to the idea of companion planting. Sceptics seem to wish to challenge its effectiveness, but I think that anything that looks and feels more natural has got to be beneficial and at the very least can't do any harm.

I hope you like my website. I update it each month with fresh information and photos. Latest update July 1st 2008Next update August 1st 2008

'This Month' looks ahead at what seeds I'll be planting, 'Next Month' is a brief forecast of what I'll be doing on the plot in August, 'Dig This' is my thoughts on watering. Basil and Doyle describe a couple of tasty salads to utilise those salad leaves and new potatoes. Dig Your Plot' contains interesting pictures which allotmenteers have sent me. If you have a contribution wing it to me by clicking on Walter and attaching a jpeg or gif photo with a caption of about 10-15 words.50,000 hits was reached on 15 February 2008. You can see the hitmeter in the bottom left hand corner of this page. As you can see we have now passed 60,000 and the daily rate is usually between 100 and 150. Since I started the support and encouragement I have received has been wonderful and the hits on the site have just grown and grown. I receive good feedback from a great number of correspondents. Thanks everybody. If you run the mouse over a picture it gives you the caption if you are using internet explorer. I recently discovered this doesn’t work with firefox, I am afraid, so I shall be including proper captions in the rewrite which I shall complete once the growing season is over.I plan to respond to criticism of the navigation by putting it at the side instead of the bottom of the page. I shall also add a section on the individual vegetables which will make this information more accessible. Cheers for now and good luck with your plots.

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