Author Archives: Jo
Allotment – Rose Avenue
This is my original plot at Rose Avenue 7m x 5m to give an overall 35 square metres. The crudely drawn white lines (I have MS Paint and am not afraid to use it) show the boundaries. The black compost … Continue reading
Back garden clean-up – update!
Quite a bit more achieved on the great back garden clean-up! I finally got around to squeezing myself between the Pyracantha and the fire-escape and cleaned up the areas underneath the fire-escape. I now remember the concrete there is actually a … Continue reading
Potato planting
Today dawned bright and sunny and I have been racing around since 7am. Some much needed admin paperwork has been done, I’ve viewed a new plot at the allotment site (more in another post), I visited the Transition Town Tooting … Continue reading
March spend
March was the month I took my eye off the ball spend-wise. On the plus side my spending patterns are consistent, on the minus side a busy month meant I relied far too much on purchasing breakfast and lunch on … Continue reading
Back garden – post winter clear up day 5
As ever I have massively underestimated the time it takes to do things when you have a tiny garden and no room to swing the proverbial cat. I’ve spent most of the last few days shuffling pots, garden furniture and … Continue reading
South London Living 