{"id":80288,"date":"2018-02-18T12:59:36","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T05:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/mucking-about-on-the-allotment\/"},"modified":"2018-02-18T13:08:16","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T06:08:16","slug":"mucking-about-on-the-allotment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/mucking-about-on-the-allotment\/","title":{"rendered":"Mucking about on the allotment"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWhen it comes to good manure, Allan Jenkins is totally hookedI have a dung dealer. He brings me 30kg bags, smuggles them into town, stashed among other deliveries. I get overexcited, anxious, waiting for my man. He farms the stuff, grows his own, brings it in from the Welsh borders. He is called Tom Jones. Honestly.Farmer Tom supplies some of London\u2019s finest restaurants. But I am not in the market for his Michelin-star meat. It\u2019s something more precious I\u2019m after: his three-year-old cow manure, the vegetable gardener\u2019s holy grail. Continue reading…
\n
\nSource : theguardian.com
\nRead more…Mucking about on the allotment<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When it comes to good manure, Allan Jenkins is totally hookedI have a dung dealer....<\/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-80288","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-kSY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":125835,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/at-last-the-allotment-will-soon-be-open\/","url_meta":{"origin":80288,"position":0},"title":"At last, the allotment will soon be open\u2026","date":"April 17, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"\r The focus will be on flowersOur allotment orders are in. Many sacks of well-rotted heavy horse manure and a \u2018dumpy bag\u2019 of \u2018superior soil conditioner\u2019 (for which read more manure, plus grit and composted bark). By the time you read this, we hope to be digging it in on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":131817,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/a-year-of-highs-and-lows-on-the-allotment-allan-jenkins\/","url_meta":{"origin":80288,"position":1},"title":"A year of highs and lows on the allotment | Allan Jenkins","date":"November 27, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Looking 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\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":126707,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/back-to-life-on-the-allotment\/","url_meta":{"origin":80288,"position":2},"title":"Back to life on the allotment","date":"May 15, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"\r The 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\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":139979,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/looking-back-on-years-of-happy-growing-on-the-allotment\/","url_meta":{"origin":80288,"position":3},"title":"Looking back on years of happy growing on the allotment","date":"October 22, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Celebrating the anniversary of the Observer\u2019s organic allotment is a chance to consider friends made, flowers grown and a community createdIt\u2019s our anniversary. When we broke soil on the Observer Organic Allotment. The plan at first was simple: for Observer Magazine people to work and garden together outside the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":100628,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/allotment-activity-slows-as-the-clocks-go-back-allan-jenkins\/","url_meta":{"origin":80288,"position":4},"title":"Allotment activity slows as the clocks go back | Allan Jenkins","date":"October 28, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r The last of summer\u2019s bounty is destined for a harvest feast, signalling the beginning of a time of rest for Plot 29Halloween marked the end of allotment one, where we first grew together and saved a scrappy piece of land. We dug in four tonnes of topsoil and two\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":18340,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/modern-tribes-the-allotment-owner\/","url_meta":{"origin":80288,"position":5},"title":"Modern tribes: the allotment owner","date":"July 2, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r If you don\u2019t like courgette quiche you could do courgette wine, or courgette curry, there\u2019ll be another sackful tomorrow, help yourself Anyone want some home-grown courgettes, fresh picked from the lotty? At 6am this morning. Come on, if you don\u2019t like courgette quiche you could do courgette wine, or\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}