Welcome to The Four Allotmenteers, the home of family friendly allotmenting!
We’re Kate and Rob! We are here to share the story of our 4 allotmenteers, the progress of our family allotment, and provide you with all the resources we can for you to get involved too! We are super excited about the road ahead and are so grateful you stopped by.
In the middle of 2017 we had the crazy idea that, despite being busy with recent house renovations, full and part time jobs and home educating 4 children, we needed to spend more time outside ‘connecting with nature’ and should therefore get ourselves an allotment. Ultimately, we want to try and grow our own. Whilst doing this, we also hope that we might be able to save a bit of money, get a bit of exercise and help our children to learn through nature. We want them to understand more about the world around them, have a true understanding of where their food comes from and the differences between traditional growing methods and modern large scale farming.
This year we are going to ‘dig in deep’ as we’re planing to try and grow something other than the weeds currently occupying the plot. We will document our progress and experiences as a home-edding, allotmenteering family right here.
Stay tuned and see how we get on!
Recent Blog Posts
Beans, beans, are good for your heart…
So its been a bean cane extravaganza. Maybe that should be bamboo cane extravaganza. This mission required a large number of bean canes to be assembled, in some form of structure, sufficient to support the growth of beans. Having surveyed a number of other bean cane...
Seed placement is…. everything?
Bit cooler then the last time we were down on the plot, but we were very happy to see that in the last few days our potatoes have sprouted! We have the tell tale little leaves poking their heads above the, ever so slightly weedy, soil. Our job now is to 'earth them...
Emergency Shelter! Emergency Shelter!
So today's adventure was to try and clear the weeds from around the strawberry's. This task seemed easy enough at the start, however the reality soon hit home that this grass weed was well and truly rooted into the soil, fabric sheeting and just about anything else...
Public Service Announcement
It was brought to my attention a few days ago that I may have made a small, but not insignificant mistake regarding our beloved plot. I am embarrassed to say that I told you all in the post 'In-Between the Weeds' that we had taken possession of, and were working on...
