Win Matthew Appleby’s new book plus 50 packets of randomly picked seeds from our shop. Competition ends 11/10/2013. Enter by commenting below, just let us know what is your favourite vegetable to grow on your plot or in your garden.Winner will be randomly picked and will be notified by email and announced here on the blog.
THE
ALLOTMENT
PLANNER
MORE THAN 200 WAYS TO
TRANSFORM YOUR PLOT
MATTHEW APPLEBY
Introduction by Alys Fowler
9780711234703
Hardback
£14.99
November 2013
Published by Frances Lincoln
Help your allotment to thrive all year round with more than 200 timely projects.
• The Allotment Planner shows you how to focus your gardening
energies to transform your plot in impressive and creative ways.
• Find out how to grow the tastiest crops, keep the busiest bees,
produce the largest pumpkins and make your own jam and wine.
• This unique journal lets you plan and record your successes, failures and
lessons learned, whether it’s keeping hens, blogging or barbecuing under the stars.
• Start planning now to get the most from your plot every month of the year.
With fun and challenging projects, The Allotment Planner will help gardeners everywhere truly
make the most of their allotments. Helping retain interest in your plot, this book will keep you
on the right side of the allotment committee, as well as getting the whole family involved. From
blogging to beekeeping, barbecuing to keeping chickens, Matthew suggests a once-a-week project
to sustain Britain’s 330,000 strong allotment community.
Arranged into months from January to December, Matthew offers four or five projects per month –
with a further ten or so timely ways to make a difference to an allotment. As well as containing
all the monthly reminders you need to grow your own crops, the journal focuses specifically on
new ideas that will bring enjoyment, push the boundaries and inject a sense of originality into
the proceedings.
With quotes from the likes of Sir Walter Scott, Eric Morecombe, Mahatma Ghandi and Germaine
Greer, this journal will keep you entertained and informed in all aspects of your allotment.
Author Matthew Appleby is a blogging garden journalist on Horticulture Week who writes for
The Guardian, Amateur Gardening and other national newspapers. He cultivates an allotment in
Wimbledon, southwest London.
And if you don’t win you can still get the book at a discounted price:
