Allotments 4 All

Hi folks - this falls rapidly out of date, as there are quite a few members now with websites.  I'm happy to keep adding the ones I know are related to vegetable gardening - but if I'm missing any, drop me a message and I'll update the list.

• Plantsman's - gone again; sorry;
• The Gardener's Almanac - http://www.thegardenersalmanac.co.uk/ (http://www.thegardenersalmanac.co.uk/)
• philcooper's http://www.plant-seed-mailorder.org.uk/ (http://www.plant-seed-mailorder.org.uk/) - a catalogue of UK mail order seed and plant suppliers.
• philcooper's http://www.hhdra.org.uk/ (http://www.hhdra.org.uk/) (Hampshire HDRA - with a listing of potato days!)
• and my own diary and notes - http://www.keirg.freeserve.co.uk/diary/default.html (http://www.keirg.freeserve.co.uk/diary/default.html) .

There's also substantial listing of allotment associations and plots in http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Recreation_and_Sports/Home_and_Garden/Gardening/Gardens/Allotments/ (http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Recreation_and_Sports/Home_and_Garden/Gardening/Gardens/Allotments/)

All best, Gavin

There's a substantial listing of allotment associations  in http://%20dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Recreation_and_Sports/Home_and_Garden/%20Gardening/Gardens/Allotments/; all I've listed in this posting are a few websites I enjoy :-) - some are worth regular "virtual visits".

• Low Moor Allotment Association, York http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~kester/LowMoorAllotments/welcome.html
• Beryl and John Saunders' allotment in Gosport - http://www.saundersallotment.co.uk/  (I think this was maybe the first plot to grow on the web?)
• Growing Your Own Produce -  http://www.workaholic.karoo.net/
• Lemon Jelly Garden  - a children's gardening and reading project on a community allotment in Tynemouth - http://www.lemonjellygarden.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
• Shared Garden, Nottinghamshire - http://www.artshost.net/garden2/index.html
• Moulsecombe Forest Garden and Wildlife Project -  http://www.seedybusiness.org/page53.shtml

And a few other gardens

• My Bit of the Planet, diary of wildlife in the garden - addictive! - http://www.mybitoftheplanet.com/
• A gardening diary from Leeds - http://www.turning-earth.co.uk/index.html
• Wild West Yorkshire - Richard Bell's Nature Diary -  http://www.wildyorkshire.co.uk/naturediary/index.html
• Garden Blethers, a monthly article from Tain -  http://www.geocities.com/gardenblethers/

Kitchen Garden Magazine's website - http://www.kitchengarden.co.uk/

Gavin,

Thanks for the work - hopefully we won't get hacked and lose half the posts again  :(

Cheers

A pleasure - it didn't take that long at all, as I've only borrowed from others of my little projects.  But this time I've kept a copy on my hard disk!!!

All best - Gavin

Hi Gavin, I spent a couple of hours going through the web pages above just like to say thanks realy enjoyed myself. Teresa

Hi, Gavin,   Thanks for the info.   I've printed it off for my allotment neighbour.   He might enjoy this site too.  Chris

Not at all - a pleasure!

All best - Gavin

Could I add another - I'm not sure how often it is updated but there is some useful info on
http://www.kitchengardens.dial.pipex.com/

I'm always referring to this:
http://www.alfresco.demon.co.uk/veg/

and some interesting links on:
http://www.debbysgardenlinks.co.uk/index.htm

Forum Admin - is it OK to post links to seed merchants.  There are three suppliers that I've found to be most helpful?

It's OK to post links to seed merchants at the moment, however at some point in the future we may have to consider discrete advertising, to pay for bandwidth and storage.

If that happens I may have to become a little more fussy.

Cheers

Dan

Hi Dan - seems reasonable enough!  You iz the boss, so until that time, in my experience, the range of products offered and the service from these guys is amazing:

http://www.edwintucker.com/Tuckers%20Seeds%2002/seeds%20index.htm

http://www.seedsofitaly.sagenet.co.uk/default.htm

http://www.nickys-nursery.co.uk/seeds/pages/index.htm

For anybody who likes to know where their food comes from  - REALLY comes from -

• http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/plantanswers/publications/vegetabletravelers/ - reprint of a National Geographic article of 1949;
• http://www.mnh.si.edu/garden/history/welcome.html  - The origins of vegetables
• http://www.gardendigest.com/timegl.htm  - History of Gardening timeline
• http://museum.agropolis.fr/english/default.htm  - Museum of Agriculture

Have fun - all the best, Gavin

Hi Gavin

You seem to know your way round the net can you help? I have been trying to find out about Luna Planting ( Gardening bythe Moon) found US web sites but nothing in UK. What I read on the US site was realy interesting. Please can you help  Teresa

Hi T - try searching biodynamics +lunar into google uk.  You might get something

thank AC will give that a go. Teresa

Hi Teresa - the only link I have is to http://www.mooncalendar.co.uk/, but I remember the Beeb having something on gardening by the moon a wee bit back ------- I'll see if I can retrace my steps, and retrieve their links for you.


All best - Gavin

PS - I think this is the Beeb link I saw; http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/gqt/lunar.shtml

Worth a go?

For those wanting easily digestible (!) information on compost making try:

http://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profiles0903/compost_heap.asp

If you want to find out about some good lottie friends, which I was fortunate enough to see in action (gruesome, but highly satisfactory!), then try this page:


http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/ent/biocontrol/parasitoids/cotesia.html

They didn't appear very quickly, so I had to resort to hand removal of the first group of caterpillars, but the wasps soon got going and the caterpillars soon got dying (bad english, I know, but hey!)

Love, Palefire
xxx

Hi all - added a new link I found today; a fascinating allotment association website, which I'm still exploring - Low Moor Allotment Association, York http://www- users.cs.york.ac.uk/~kester/LowMoorAllotments/welcome.html.

All best - Gavin

gavin, hope you don't mind - just to let everyone know i had a really good time going through your website - most enjoyable, do try it - i spent an unprecendented amountof time on PC poring over all this useful stuff
cheers, suzy

Ps. I am inspired to do a website myself - must get a digi camera first thing then enlist keen eldest son.

This is a great general gardening site  ;)
http://www.realgardeners.co.uk/

A friend at work is looking at doing some lunar planting and he gave me the following website to have a look at ... they're based in Somerset

http://www.greenharmonyltd.co.uk

Looks like plenty of midnight visits to the allotment!

good page on soil and green manure

http://www.e-garden.co.uk/index.asp?pageID=441&sectionID=HowTo (http://www.e-garden.co.uk/index.asp?pageID=441&sectionID=HowTo)

Havent had the time to look at many but i've just looked at the one on the Beechgrove Garden, which I found very interesting. I will look at some of the others when i have more time

Thanks!

good allotment site, especially page on no-dig beds

http://www.erutan.clara.co.uk/alljob.htm (http://www.erutan.clara.co.uk/alljob.htm)

Hi folks,

It is really good to have the links to websites for in depth information and extremely useful.

Just a slight note of dissention tho, all of you who have websites, and very good they are too, would be nice not to have them advertised in postings.  If we click on profiles, can see and access websites if we want to.  Would prefer that websites were not in my face during normal postings.  

After all, this is Dan's site, not an advertising board!

And, just in case wondering, not aimed at you Gavin cos u are always very discreet!  Just wanted to make that clear!

I agree- think it's best that links should be discreet

I know I've said it before, & it's late in the season to repeat it, but what the hell?

For those who want to go a stage further - I reckon twowests is great. = Tim

But Muddy_Boots and ross, if they didn`t advertise their web sites with every posting we might not realise how knowledgeable and experienced they are.

- steady girls & boys - steady! = Tim

Hi all - I liked this one http://appleorchard.members.easyspace.com/ (http://appleorchard.members.easyspace.com/)!

All best - Gavin

I've never tried seed-saving (at least not properly)  - but found this this morning.

http://www.seedsave.org/issi/issi_904.html (http://www.seedsave.org/issi/issi_904.html)

All best, Gavin

I can't remember why I got to this one but it may provide hope to those who need it:

http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:azp6k5aEYckJ:www.butbn.cas.cz/klimes/2001a.pdf+ipomea+quamoclit&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
Gavin, have you been to this one?
http://www.ic.org/resources/cdir1995/SeedSavers.html

Thanks John - and http://www.seedsavers.org/Home.asp (http://www.seedsavers.org/Home.asp), and http://www.irishseedsavers.ie/ (http://www.irishseedsavers.ie/).  Looks like another fascinating little project to get my teeth into ;D

All best, Gavin

Gavin,

What's happened to your diary page ? I was avidly following your diary for your old allotment but when you moved the diary has stopped.

I have only got my lottie in July so I was hoping to use the experiences in your diary as my guide  :-[

Please feel free to add sites to the 'Top Site' feature of the new front end, at

http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/index.php?ind=topsite&op=submit_site

Cheers

Dan

Hi Dan - the "submit link" link gives an error message

Quote! Error !
Sorry
You are not authorized to Submit a Site

:(  otherwise I'd have tried "transplanting" the healthy links in this thread, and weeded the rest.  :(

All best - Gavin

Oops,

You should be ok now gavin.

Cheers

Dan

One down - ??? to go?

Thanks, Dan - that step now works fine (I think) for somebody submitting their own site, if they've got the requisite graphics sorted out.

How about for submitting a site that's not your own, though?  Then I need the webmaster's e-mail, and addresses for their banners - I suspect I could get those for Phil Cooper's seed supplier site, but what about a worthwhile resource outside A4A?  The ODP allotments cat, for example?  Or the Deputy PMs Allotment site?

Is there any way of suggesting sites (not one's own) for consideration/inclusion?  Appreciate the need for control - otherwise we have hundreds of ads for rip-off Viagra!

All best - Gavin

Hi  I'm new to this site so don't know if I'm in the right place but if anyone is looking to rent a plot in the Derby area could I plug our new website at http://www.firsestateallotments.co.uk

Dan,

I haven't got a banner (mini or otherwise) and the top site form won't accept input without all fields completed - suggestions please?

Phil

Bakker.co.uk- very good range of good quality plants

.... and well known for stretching the truth when it comes to the colour of plants - blue roses for instance.

That's why you won't find them listed in my list of mail order suppliers

Phil

Only just found this one.

http://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/problem_solver/index.asp

this one is good - includes recipes and advice about pests and diseases etc.

http://www.gardenguides.com/

For hoses, plastics for polytunnel material (unfortunately not complete polytunnels) and netting I can recommend

http://www.allplaz.com

Really helpful people  8)

Quote from: philcooper on May 02, 2005, 20:03:41
.... and well known for stretching the truth when it comes to the colour of plants - blue roses for instance.

That's why you won't find them listed in my list of mail order suppliers

Phil

Yes, I remember a 'Which' report which reckoned that Bakker did not show wholly representative pictures of their plants...

Quote from: Bodolph on June 29, 2005, 12:18:31
For hoses, plastics for polytunnel material (unfortunately not complete polytunnels) and netting I can recommend

http://www.allplaz.com

Really helpful people  8)

Looks like this could be the site I have been looking for - thanks.

Can't find the Top Sites bit as mentioned at the top of the page ???, am I being daft?

hope you've got www.savetheplot.co.uk (http://www.savetheplot.co.uk) :)

and you will notice on thetimesonline.co.uk (http://thetimesonline.co.uk) that allotments are a subject for debate (prob should post that elsewhere, but it's a link!!) at the moment

www.pathtofreedom.com (http://www.pathtofreedom.com)
its for a bit of inspiration even tho it is american....are there any site like this in blighty?

Here's about the most informative site I've stumbled upon in a LONG time, complete with weekly diary!! hope you enjoy!!

http://gardenaction.co.uk/

Cheers Kev B