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Allotment and Gardening Diary

Welcome to my first Allotment and Gardening diary of 2020. Every time i’m on the allotment I will be creating a short video of my time down on the plot and tell you what I’ve been up to.

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This way you will be able to track my progress and follow my success and failures on the allotment this year. Hopefully their won’t be too many failures.


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3rd January 2020

Today was a very cold day in Sheffield with me been able to see my breath. I had to defiantly wrap up warm. Unfortunately I did only have one pair of socks on and by the end of the time on the plot I could not feel my toes.

Today’s mission was to start clearing round my rhubarb and pruning the rest of my fruit trees before the snow arrives – which apparently is soon.

I did manage to get all this completed but I could not move the brambles as I only had one glove so did not want to risk getting thrones in my fingers.

You can watch the video here how I got on

After I finished this I planted my broad beans which will be in a video and post later for you to view.

Fingers crossed I will be back on the allotment this weekend to get some more work done and footage for you.

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