This book – Vegetable Growing Month-by-Month – is a complete guide to growing vegetables whether you’ve got a garden or an allotment. It’ll make you yearn for more growing space so you can try growing everything listed in the book.
Month by month means you can read what you should be doing and eating in each month.
It’s only £4.28

Vegetable Growing Month-by-Month: The down-to-earth guide that takes you through the vegetable year

It’s written by John Harrison (b.1955) lives in Snowdonia, North Wales on a smallholding with his wife Val and a pride of miniature lions who can be mistaken for moggies. As well as writing, he runs his allotment.org.uk website from his home. They aim to be as self-sufficient as possible, not only growing fruit and vegetables, but making their own butter, cheese and preserves and soon to be raising their own livestock.
His first book, Vegetable Growing Month by Month was a best selling success, closely followed by The Essential Allotment Guide and Low Cost Living which he says should have been titled “Self Sufficiency in the Suburbs”
Easy Jams, Chutneys and Preserves was a collaboration with his wife, Val, and it has become a bestseller because of it’s straightforward, honest style. Val not only tells you what to do but also what do when things go wrong. And they do!

It’s packed with hints and tips that will help all allotment holders to enjoy their plot more.

There are a good few allotments in Oldham, and there’s a couple of new ones been started recently. One of these is at Cartmel Crescent and makes use of waste land that was a cause of all sorts of nuisance including fly tipping, graffeti and anti-social behaviour.
The site was started in February and if you are interested in a plot then you can contact Diane at the site.
This is just one of the many allotments in Oldham. Ones nearby includes the ones at Granby Street which is a much more established site

New allotments are good news for people on the waiting lists in Oldham –

A KEEN gardener claims he has been unfairly threatened with being turfed off his allotment — because other growers are jealous.


Ben Carcamo (28) says committee members from the Stotts Lane Allotments, in Failsworth, have issued an eviction notice because they are envious of the quality of the soil on his patch.


Article on my local papers website – Oldham Chronicle

This is a problem all plots have – how you define untended?