Terry Walton's allotment blog

Terry Walton is the much-loved allotmenteer of BBC Radio 2's The Jeremy Vine Show. Follow his weekly blog for gardening and allotment hints and tips.

Terry Walton's allotment blog archive

  • Tuesday 26 July 2011,By Terry Walton

    July 26, 2011: the good life

    This week Terry celebrates the nation's move from herbaceous borders to vegetable patches and even a few chickens Read On
  • Tuesday 19 July 2011,By Terry Walton

    July 19, 2011: green tomatoes

    It is with great in trepidation that I switch on my television when the weather forecast is due. Read On
  • Tuesday 12 July 2011,By Terry Walton

    July 12, 2011: help for hedgehogs

    This week, Terry takes up the cause of the British hedgehog, and suggests ways we can help this beleaguered creature survive and thrive Read On
  • Tuesday 5 July 2011,By Terry Walton

    July 5, 2011: let nature paint the picture

    This week, Terry battles cabbage whites and the threat of blight, and delights in the abundance of wild flowers this year Read On
  • Tuesday 28 June 2011,By Terry Walton

    June 28, 2011: a berry good harvest

    Well did you enjoy it? I mean that brief glimpse of summer that arrived with vengeance at the weekend. Read On
  • Wednesday 22 June 2011,By Terry Walton

    June 22, 2010: all creatures great and small

    Terry Walton hatches a plan to protect his ripening strawberries from the beaks of our beady-eyed feathered friends Read On
  • Tuesday 21 June 2011,By Terry Walton

    June 21, 2011: allotment life in the 1960s

    This week Terry Walton looks back to his youth on the allotments and compares today's growing conditions with those of yesteryear Read On
  • Tuesday 14 June 2011,By Terry Walton

    June 14, 2011: droughts and downpours

    Where did summer go? Flaming June was but a brief spell and last week my Welsh hillside was decidedly chilly and those nights were very cold. Read On
  • Tuesday 7 June 2011,By Terry Walton

    June 7, 2011: a bucolic idyll

    Last week flaming June arrived on schedule and drove away those cooling winds that haunted the end of May. Read On
  • Tuesday 31 May 2011,By Terry Walton

    May 31, 2011: high hopes for June

    To me the beginning of June is the start of summer and let's hope it lives up to its name of Flaming June. Read On

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