Terry Walton's allotment blog

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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