Features

July in the Allotment 2024

So far, 2024 has been a very difficult year except for potatoes which seemed to love the excessive rain!

Bees in the Allotment

Swarms of bees are not uncommon in the allotment but this one is in a rather unusual place!

September Recipe – Raspberry and Sloe Jam

Ann used Barbara’s excess raspberries with foraged sloes to make jam, which not only got first prize in the Banstead Horticultural Society Autumn show but also a blue ribbon awarded for an outstanding exhibit.
Here is the recipe.

Early summer in the Allotment

Early summer in the allotment. This is the time when we start to harvest: broad beans, cherries and first early potatoes. And we have the first dahlia as a foretaste of what is to come.