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This perennial gardening classic gives you everything you need to create and manage a bountiful and beautiful allotment with just half an hour’s work a day!

The Royal Horticultural Society The Half Hour Allotment (first published in 2005) has been a best-selling gardening title for many years. This new edition re-presents the classic in a fresh new illustrated format with hundreds of new photographs and a bright new cover design.

The book shows you how to manage your allotment and enjoy fresh vegetables through the year on just half an hour’s work a day with weekends off. It combines expert advice from Lia Leendertz and the Royal Horticultural Society and time-saving ideas for planning the most effective use of your time and energy, giving you something to eat fresh every day of the year and ensure bumper crops in summer!

Lia Leendertz, the best-selling author of The Almanac, is an organic gardener with a great sensitivity for the environment so the book is a gentle and thoughtful read as well as being a bible for productive and time-starved gardeners.

From the Publisher

In a nutshell

The half-hour principle allows you to spend five half hours on the allotment to produce salad and green vegetables every day of the year. Visit each weekday for half an hour or twice a week for 75 minutes.

Plan your next visit at the end of your current one, or plan as soon as you arrive and start immediately.
Grow only what you need – avoid the tyranny of gluts.
Grow the more expensive, luxury crops that benefit from being eaten freshly picked, such as asparagus, raspberries, new potatoes and salad leaves.
Make life easier for yourself: start some crops with plug plants rather than from seed.

Taking on a plot

Setting up your plot well, right at the beginning, can make a huge difference to its long-term success. This chapter aims to show you how to get hold of a plot and make sure that it is the best of all of those available. It will also give you some guidelines on how to start planning your plot once you have it, and what features to include. If you put some time and thought into getting the basics right, it will improve the ease with which you can manage it and make you less likely to abandon it in the long run.

Deciding what to grow

When you have first cleared your plot, the space available to you will seem endless, especially if you are used to the confines of a small town garden or courtyard. Even a half or a quarter allotment will stretch away from you, making you feel that you will never fill it up. But you will be surprised at how wrong this impression is. Plants take up space. You are likely to make plans for growing a huge variety of crops, and then find, come late spring, that you have filled up all the space you have available and have to give away all your beautiful tomato plants to neighbours.

Growing the best varieties

One of the main reasons most people bother with this whole allotment business, rather than simply buying fruit and veg from a supermarket, is that they think that home-grown food tastes better than commercially grown food. But the unfortunate truth is that tastier food does not come automatically with owning an allotment or vegetable patch. It is still possible to produce bland crops, or get bored because you have grown too much of one crop and have had to eat it night after night for two months.

Keeping on top of your plot

Everyday maintenance may not be the most fun part of having an

allotment, but it is probably the most important. If you can keep on top of the everyday jobs, you will avoid having to spend long weekends catching up with the weeding. The best way to avoid the feast-and-famine approach to allotment tasks is to try to make the half hour you spend there each day an integral part of your daily routine. Make it as routine as having a shower in the morning or catching the bus home at night, and it will cease to seem like a chore and just become a part of your everyday life.

The first year

The first year on your allotment is a critical time. You have enthusiasm on your side, but the majority of people who abandon their allotments do so during this period. It is essential that you approach this crucial time with the right attitude. The most important thing to remember is that you can’t do everything; give yourself a break and don’t expect to win Best Plot this first year. There will be times when your plot looks messy, when it doesn’t come up to the standard of those around you and when favourite crops fail to flourish. Don’t beat yourself up about it.

Nurturing your plants

You may get great results at first simply by sowing or planting out direct into the soil and hoping for the best. But the time will come when some problem or other will hit you: the soil may be leaching nutrients, or your plants may get struck by frost or pushed over by the wind. You will make your allotment more productive and easier to manage if you learn how to nurture your soil and crops.

Managing pests and diseases

Pests and diseases can have a devastating effect on an allotment. They can cause havoc among your vegetables, reducing yields and ruining quality. Many old-school allotmenteers swear by chemical controls, but as laws on pesticide use become more stringent there are fewer chemicals available to the allotment gardener, and you may wish to avoid the use of synthetic chemicals anyway. It can be simpler and, in the long run, less time consuming to take a more holistic approach.

An allotment for children

There are many good reasons for making allotments into places where children – if you have them – can spend time. The first is purely practical. You need to put time in if you are to look after your plot properly, and if you have children to look after as well, you need to find something for them to do while you are on the allotment. If they love visiting it too they will be happy to tag along and will be much less likely to make a fuss about wanting to go home to watch telly just ten minutes after you have arrived.

What Next?

This book has, I hope, given you the tools you need to create an allotment that you can manage in tandem with a busy life, rather than one that you have to devote half your life to. If you follow its advice, you should have an allotment that produces a supply of seasonal fresh vegetables all year round, all for just half an hour’s work a day. But some people really get the bug and start wanting to develop their allotmenting skills. This final chapter is designed to give you ideas on where to go next, if you feel you have the energy and the time to do more. I want to recommend some things that keep you within the basic tenet of the half-hour system: they should either increase the quality of the crops you produce or the ease with which you can produce them.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Frances Lincoln; 1st edition (August 6, 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Flexibound ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0711244103
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0711244108
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.15 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.6 x 0.8 x 8.7 inches

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