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\nThe allotment year begins with Howard\u2019s hazel poles while early birds keep us companySpring, the time to build garden supports for sweetpeas, peas and climbing beans. Howard has his hands on a beautiful bundle of hazel via his local spoon-carving community.There are tall heavy poles for the French bean structure (we will be growing blue Blauhilde and an Italian yellow). There\u2019s also shorter, thinner sticks for peas and flowers (mostly heavy-scented Spencer sweet peas from specialist supplier Roger Parsons) with the skinniest branches to be threaded inbetween. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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The allotment year begins with Howard\u2019s hazel poles while early birds keep us companySpring, the...<\/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-143044","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-Bda","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":136045,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-stakes-are-high-building-begins-at-the-allotment\/","url_meta":{"origin":143044,"position":0},"title":"The stakes are high: building begins at the allotment","date":"April 23, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"\r The climbing poles for peas have arrived, the seedlings are on the go \u2013 it\u2019s time to plan the summer plotHoward arrives with the new hazel. 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