Ralph Mills and Lenore Ogilvy (Two at Large) in their allotment

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Allotment 45 — the story of a Nottingham allotment garden

Six hundred square yards of weeds, giant slugs, decaying wood, rusty iron, old bricks, broken glass and more weeds...

LATEST: August 1stThe allotment on August 1st 2008


We took over allotment 45 in Nottingham's Whitemoor Allotments, on October 1st 2006. This is a record of the fun, and food, we've enjoyed since then...

2008
June 24th: Harvesting like mad!
June 15th: New potatoes for supper.
May 21st:
May 12th: Stuff's growing!
April 17th:Potatoes all in, first peas sown
April 8th:
March 27th:
6th February: February fill-dyke 2008:

2007
October pumpkins
October 1st October — exactly a year!
September harvest: Girls in shorts!
August 6th August
July 24th July
June 30th June
June 4th June
April 27th April
April 2nd April: It's been six months!
March 11th March
February 20th
February 4th : A before and after entry
January 14th

2006
December 16th
December 10th
November 26th
November 18th
November 5th
October 29th
October 21st
October 10th
As it was — photographs of potential
October 1st: We take over

Lenore harvesting
Ralph the vegetable-grower
Forced rhubarb
Ralph and his pumpkins
A fine crop of chillies
Chetna harvesting

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