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Allotments are in high demand from city dwellers without garden space to "grow your own" vegetables and fruit! This DVD takes the beginner and the experienced allotment holder through the growing seasons, step by step, with useful information and fun!
Experienced allotment holder, David Cemlyn, demonstrates how he gets the best from his plot and steers beginners - the Bailey family - through their first year on the allotment right from choosing and clearing their plot. Meanwhile, award winning head gardener, Jane Moore, visits experienced plotters who share the secrets of their success.
Our allotmenteers build a new shed, find out what goes on in existing sheds, re-construct a second hand greenhouse, make compost and have manure delivered. They grow every thing from carrots to asparagus and butternut squash, from garlic to giant cabbage and prize winning pumpkins, and from plums and peaches to apples and figs.
We find Heath Robinson techniques for maintaining a water supply in high summer and a permaculture specialist teaches us how to harvest abundant colourful, organic and nutritious crops all through the year. We visit allotments with chickens, rare sheep, horses, rabbits and bees, witness performance art and painting, help with skip-raiding and recycling and cookouts.
On this DVD more than twenty experienced allotmenteers, and a few beginners, reveal all about growing great fruit, vegetables and beautiful flowers. From 90 year old Harry, cultivating the same plot for 57 years, to the Bailey family working hard for great success in their first year, and 13 year old Aaron who keeps animals and grows vegetables. They all feature in The Allotment. Run time 5.5 hours, 3-dvd set.
THE ALLOTMENT SERIES was first shown on ITV 1 West
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