{"id":126707,"date":"2022-05-15T12:15:21","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T05:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/back-to-life-on-the-allotment\/"},"modified":"2022-05-15T12:31:14","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T05:31:14","slug":"back-to-life-on-the-allotment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/back-to-life-on-the-allotment\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to life on the allotment"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe soil is fed, the nasturtiums endure, the gardeners are doing the heavy liftingThe back is broken of the heavy lifting. Howard and mine, too. But we are in. Branch Hill allotments are near unrecognisable. The wildness is dimmed. But the organic gardeners are gathering and this will soon change.We are greeted at the gate by stacks of sacks. We have ordered 50 bags of \u201cheavy horse manure\u201d for the plot: 25 each for Mary and us. The new allotment soil is thin and sandy. It will need love and work \u2013 and worms. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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The soil is fed, the nasturtiums endure, the gardeners are doing the heavy liftingThe back...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-wXF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32713,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/watford-allotment-campaigners-lose-high-court-battle-to-save-site\/","url_meta":{"origin":126707,"position":0},"title":"Watford allotment campaigners lose high court battle to save site","date":"November 2, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Gardeners at Farm Terrace site had hoped a victory would help protect allotments across countryA group of amateur gardeners have lost a high court battle to prevent their allotments being built over, which they hoped would help protect green spaces across the country from development. 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