{"id":131817,"date":"2022-11-27T13:15:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T06:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/a-year-of-highs-and-lows-on-the-allotment-allan-jenkins\/"},"modified":"2022-11-27T13:29:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T06:29:20","slug":"a-year-of-highs-and-lows-on-the-allotment-allan-jenkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/a-year-of-highs-and-lows-on-the-allotment-allan-jenkins\/","title":{"rendered":"A year of highs and lows on the allotment | Allan Jenkins"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nLooking back over the past 12 months, there have been a few misses, but many more hitsAs the old year slows down, shudders to a halt, it is time to take stock of our first six months with the new soil. The long winter exile ended in May, so our usual spring planting was necessarily later.For a long while we were playing catch-up. The new earth was finer, sandier than before, so we added much manure: 25 sacks of heavy horse, a giant dumpy bag of a \u2018soil improver\u2019 mix, more manure, bark and grit. And it worked, mostly. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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