It doesn’t matter whether you have a small garden, or a large allotment plot, you always seem to run out of growing space, especially in the busy late Spring and early Summer months.
However, there are a couple of techniques that can be used, which will ensure that you get the absolute most out of your growing space.
Thank you to everyone who entered and to all those that voted in April’s Cultivate, Cook & Click competition.
I can now announce that the winner of this month’s competition is …
It’s been gorgeous weather on a Bank Holiday for a change, and I hope you managed to spend as much time in your allotment or garden as I have.
Since I’m now the allotment site secretary, I was able to get advance notice of which plots on the site were becoming vacant, and I have bagged myself what I think is called a “project.” 
Thank you for all of your entries for this month’s competition, and now it is time to reveal the prizes and the finalists for this month.
The runner bean is a great British summer vegetable that is easy to grow and delicious to eat, but it seems that it has been forgotten by a large number of people, dismissed as old fashioned, probably because they have been used to it being boiled to within an inch of its life by generations of school cooks!
As you’ll know by now, two of the things I love doing is growing vegetables and fruit at my allotment, and cooking with whatever is in season.
A few days ago, my better half and I thought why not combine the two, and make it into a monthly competition. Even better, the winner of the competition each month will win some fabulous food related prizes that have kindly been donated.
It’s that wonderful time of the month again when I’m given a sneak peek at the Top 20 Gardening blogs, as according to the good people at Wikio, ahead of their official release on 5th April.
Achiltibuie Garden – Hydroponic Growing Kits
Dartmoor Chilli Farm
Greenhouse Sensation
