The Plot Thickens - No-Dig, Allotment Living The Plot Thickens

Vicky has been busy with her sowings again, extending her IKEA shoe racks almost across the whole length of the back of the house. Karin has had her first bag in the new Clothing Loop with a sweet little handy surprise inside. And of course it was The Gardeners’ World Magazine podcast with Kate Bradbury (season 12,ep 3) that Karin was rambling on about, not Garden Organics.

A jam packed episode this week as the sowing seasons ramps up! Tune in to hear about all that's been sowed, pricked out and transplanted this week on the plots, in the greenhouse and along endless windowsills!

You'll be delighted to hear Vicky's mollusc update and our listener tips for snail and slug management!

Karin is excited to start the Clothing Loop, a St Albans Clothes Swap Initiative to reduce clothes waste and pass on old favourites...Vicky's still waiting for her invite...

It flags up the question of Sustainability - whether in using the word in our title, we are diminishing its value? Check out the new tag line and listen in to hear why.

The warmer weather has arrived and with it has the slugs. Vicky’s broccoli has been obliterated but she thinks she has found a solution to the problem with a slug stew. Karin’s plot is surprisingly slug free and she puts it down to the pond with it’s hungry inhabitants. Vicky has been to an inspiring B and B over the Easter holidays; right up her street with birds everywhere.

This week we unravel the enigma of springing forward, but end up lost in time! Please do not refer to this episode for any sense-making on the clocks going forward. We clearly hadn't had enough coffee when we were recording.

This week, with Vicky's mishap, we're all about slowing life down, The chilly, soggy weather gives us the perfect excuse to embrace a leisurely pace on the plot. Tune in as we delve into eco-friendly gardening practices, from reusing coffee grounds to encouraging the frogs to gobble the slugs.

Our seeds might be flourishing but our understanding of time? That's still up in the air.



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Thanks as ever to Alex for the Intro music.

The spring equinox has arrived and with it lots of seed sowing, using newly found 'potting benches' from the St Albans Reuse site.

Vicky gets excited about being able to see Karin's shed across the allotment, albeit at a safe distance, and devises a plan for a colour coded flag system. Vicky also puts Karin through a humiliating test of her own seeds; revealing Karin's lack of knowledge of anything seed related.

With thanks to Alex Kizenkov for intro music.

Oh dear. Production values are lacking on this episode people - sorry about the wind and reverb.

If you can bear to bear with us, we’ve got an uninterrupted episode as we dive into a good long chat about all we’ve sowed this week, plans for the plots.

If you love endless seed-sowing talk, you're in for a treat! Karin shares an idea about using a seed tray as a mini replica of a bed to ensure frugal seed sowing and Vicky talks about the satisfaction of prepping seed compost in module trays ahead of time and a whole bunch of other seed-related nuggets of information

As always thanks so much to Alex Kizenkov for the intro tunes and to the Birds on the plot for the outro tunes.











What have we planted this week? 



Marigolds

Borage

Sugar snap peas

peas

dill

fennel

sweetpeas

sugar snap peas

tomato

red onion

spring onions

cosmos 

peppers (nothing happening here) 

Jerusalem artichokes