Gone to Plot
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What is this blog about?
In short, this blog is about Bed 94.4. Bed 94.4 is a raised vegetable bed 5.42 metres by 1.88 metres on a plot with five other beds of equal size. My bed is on Plot 94 of the allotment which is based in the North East of England, in the city of Sunderland. It is bed number 4.
The Plot is a community garden providing local groups the opportunity to cultivate a raised bed whilst learning new skills and we were fortunate enough to get it when I saw a Facebook post inviting people to apply who were interested in growing vegetables for their family.
I don't have much growing experience although I do have a lot of experience in eating vegetables and did the obligatory stint of vegetarianism for about 12 years. Because of this and because I prefer my veg free of chemical residues, I've have had a little bit of a hankering to G-Y-O. I subscribed to Kitchen Garden for a while at a time when I dabbled with a small vegetable patch in our back yard and so I got a ton of seeds from that some of which we are planting in this bed. I did have some limited success growing tomatoes, herbs and edible flowers in pots on the patio in our flat down south one year which I quite proud of at the time and those are my only vegetable growing credentials to date.
I could say that growing vegetables is in my blood. My dad grew vegetables at home when I was young and my mum grew vegetables on a plot in her smallholding. Both my grandad's grew vegetables and one was even raised on tomatoes. That might sound strange, messy even, but it's true. His family ran a nursery in Guernsey growing and exporting tomatoes to the mainland. For every child my great grandparents had, they calculated that they would need an additional greenhouse in which to produce their favoured crop to cover the costs of raising that child. They ended up with six greenhouses.
So this blog is basically a record of our journey to vegetable abundance or failure. Probably a bit of both. Hopefully it will be engaging, and mildly entertaining but it will not be educational as we don't know what we're doing. Unless you can learn from my mistakes or you don't know what a tomato looks like (pic of tomato for edification) then I doubt you'll learn very much at all.
