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The Plot Thickens Pod No dig, sustainable, allotment living

24/04/2024

When your husband gets involved.

/Vicky

23/04/2024

What’s your reason for tuning in to the podcast?

Karin and I meet every Friday on the allotment plot, record this podcast and talk about the week gone by and all that’s is our lives on the plot!

Not experts, no thrills, just two women who love to sow, grow and make compost. And talk about the detail of it all! 🤣

And we love all of our listeners new and old who tune in for whatever reason, whether that’s to share in allotment life or simply to be lulled to sleep with our mindless chatter, you are all very welcome! 🤗

17/04/2024

Relieved to see flowers on the heavily pruned apple tree!

Absolutely love the trusty broad beans; even if everything else fails or gets eaten, at least I’ll have a few of these 🌱🌱🌱

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17/04/2024

☺️🌱 Anyone for salad? So pleased with these two trays of mixed red and green leaves, coming on nicely. Give it a couple of weeks and they‘ll be ready for dinner. Growing this inside my window so great to just pick a few leaves when we need them!

Thanks so much to the brilliant for the tip a few weeks back 🙏🌱🙏

10/04/2024

Coffee ground collection this morning from the lovely 🌸🌸🌸

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09/04/2024

Any mushroom experts out there? These little cuties are in all my sweet pea pots :-)

09/04/2024

Anyone for dinner?

The only things eating this broccoli will be these slugs.

I’m done, they can have them. Nets off, birds and can have them too. Go for your life.

Choose your battles. 🤣

09/04/2024

Vicky has had an inspirational time away but arrives back to slug destruction on the plot :-( On a more positive note, warmer weather has arrived and with it lots of spring planting 🫛🫛🫛

07/04/2024

🌱 i sometimes get to the allotment around 7am, when the children are asleep and the world is quiet. I’m here with my coffee, taking a moment to just be on the plot, looking at all that’s growing and bursting into bud, planning the next steps, like tethering pots down so they don’t blow in the wind.

This morning I felt like seeing what the allotment would do with a bundle of mixed seeds. So I just made a little seed bomb of pollinators and wild flowers and scattered them at the front of the plot in a small no dig bed.

I wonder whether they’ll want to grow here?

Looking forward.

/vicky

02/04/2024

Total confusion as Karin and I talk our way in, out and around the concept of the clocks moving forward. Seriously do not come to us for any informal references.

Up this week:

💚 No dig allotment life
💦 Spring showers and storms
🌱 Germination
🔥 Scolds and burns
⏰ spring forward - chaos of time

Thanks for tuning in peeps.

/Vicky

01/04/2024

Podcast’s Logo attempt #56

Back in September when we launched the pod, this was one of the 100s of AI generated images that were created for The Plot Thickens Podcast before we decided on the favourite.

This one was particularly special.

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If you haven’t heard us yet and want to take a listen to our life on our no dig allotments, tune in to our weekly episodes on your favourite podcast app.

We delve into the world of eco friendly gardening, get high on soil improvement, have a flurry of enthusiasm for water conservation and rainwater harvesting. We have a penchant for up cycling and reusing where we can and can talk the legs off a donkey when it comes to seeds.

We’d love you to join us ☺️💚🌱

30/03/2024

Spent the evening waking up my 30 or so geraniums; some have been in the garage over winter and some on a dark window sill in the kitchen.

Now I have hundreds of cut offs to root into new plants :-) Luckily most go outside in the summer, absolutely no space in the house 🌱🌱🌱

Pic from last spring 🌸

29/03/2024

What on earth is going on here? 😂

Tray left out in the rain overnight thereby the very wet and uneven soil in each cell, probably won’t help with further germination 🥴

28/03/2024

Love this spring flowering laburnum 🤍🌱🤍🌱🤍

26/03/2024

Seed sowing is on the menu in this latest podcast, using repurposed baby change unit/shelves from the fantastic St Albans Reuse FB site 🌱🌱🌱

19/03/2024

This week’s episode is out this morning! If you are anything like us and can talk for hours about sowing seeds then hopefully this is the episode for you.

God knows what happened to our mics, we clearly need a big fluffy boom on windy days. Sorry about that! We’ll be back on track next week!

17/03/2024

Found the most perfect fold out seed box, inspired by the lovely .okotcha

17/03/2024

Back in July,on the first day of owning my plot, I found this skull in and amongst the metre high couch grass.

I’ve kept this little skull as a reminder that the land doesn’t belong to me and that the life belongs to the wild.

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/vicky

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16/03/2024

Found the ideal seed box in a second hand shop, inspired by .okotcha! 😍

12/03/2024

A short episode where we celebrate Vicky’s shed having finally been built. All she needs now is a nail gun and her life will be complete.

11/03/2024

Absolutely love sedum; I used to cut them down once they had lost their colour in the autumn but think I prefer this dried look!
Great for attracting bees and butterflies as well 🐝🦋

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11/03/2024

Life on the plot just got even better. 😊 / vicky

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09/03/2024

Sow satisfying.

08/03/2024

Karin & I meet every Friday on the allotment come rain or shine. Have you listened in to The Plot Thickens, the no dig, sustainable allotment life podcast? Pop the kettle on, go for a driving, mooch about your own allotment, cook dinner or like many of our listeners, let us take you off to the land of nod. 💤

Karin and I just love the chance to share the highs and lows of allotment living. We love to hear from our listeners too so do get in touch with us at [email protected]

07/03/2024

After a long working week there’s nothing better than spending a little time pricking out with a podcast before dinner.

🌱 Repurposing our stick inset netted cage to keep the frost off.

07/03/2024

So excited to find frog spawn in the pond this week! Rainbow after last week’s episode and yesterday’s garden project; sacrificing some honeysuckle and clematis for a third composter 🌱🌱🌱/Karin

05/03/2024

RAIN! Will it ever stop? Luckily we have Karin’s shed to slope into and a lovely rainbow follows 🌈

04/03/2024

A couple of my favourite frosty morning photos. Love the structure of these artichoke globes, Karin’s shed in the background 💚. / Vicky

03/03/2024

One emptied compost heap = one cosy hiding place.

Another productive day on the plot, adding compost to the hugelkultur, around the fruit trees and on the beds.

Planted a few raspberry canes from a kind neighbour, sowed some pollinators and tucked them in. Took some of Karin’s lovely apple tree branches to create my dead hedge / log pile at the end of the plot where I’m hoping to encourage all the wildlife to hide too.

Oh, and more composting. I’m obsessed.

28/02/2024

Reusing the cutoffs from having our apple tree pruned; sweet pea support/arch and for filling the bottom of a new raised bed.
If anyone has any ideas of something veggie to smoke with the rest of the wood, please let me know :-)

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Sounds like you may have slugs and snails too given the posts we’ve seen this week?! We are still nattering on about these little rascals on the pod this week. More talk about sowing and pricking out and with the weather it’s all still heaving in greenhouses and windowsills! Thanks for listening and as ever, please do rate and review the podcast if you have the energy too! 🤣 #nodigallotment #podding #snailwatch

In an attempt to be more minimalistic when it comes to my seed sowing, I only planted four seeds for my cucumber curtains. 100% germination rate from Vital Seeds 👍/Karin #cucumbercurtain #seed #seedaddict

Post Easter bokashi ASMR :-)

Hmmmm, what are you thinking’s for lunch little Butterfly??? #sweetpeas #butterflyfood

Bijou Tall Giant Sugar Snap Peas from Real Seeds. These were planted on Mother’s Day and germinate like there was no tomorrow! 💥 #lovenodig #realseeds #sugarsnappeas

I’ve found my little bit of heaven. 💚🌱💚 /vicky #nodig #sheshed #heavenisanallotment

Impromptu pod recording in the car after a beautiful day at Waltham Park :-) #nodig #walthamplace # shouldhavegonetospecsavers

This is us, makers of The Plot Thickens Podcast. Karin on the left and Vicky on the right. We record the podcast each and every week, directly from our plots, come rain or shine. We’ve been friends for years and have a shared love for soil, compost, and the simple joys of allotment life. So what better opportunity to chat about our plots each week than to make a podcast? We share our discoveries and question what works, what doesn’t and how we can be kinder to the planet in the process. And we just love doing what we do. And why will we continue to record the pod each week for the foreseeable? Because we both already have a day job. We aren’t horticulturalists, we aren’t ecologists. This isn’t our career, we’re just two mums with an absolute love of life on the plot and all that brings to our world. #ilovecompost #nodigallotment #compost #podcaster #podcast #theplotthickens

Making the most of an afternoon in St Albans 🌱 #nodig #theplotthickenspodcast #hugelkultur #sandridgeroadallotments

Nothing better than a cuddle in the hammock after a morning making a little wooden sandpit into a mini raised bed. #nodig #allotmentlife🌱 #nodiggarden #sustainableshopping #iforgotthebatteryscrewdriver #theplotthickenspodcast