Starting again, planning for the future
It's been a while since I have blogged, circumstances have delayed my progress but things are moving along now.
I have taken on another 15 poles of allotment that was very overgrown as you can see from the pictures above. This brings my allotment to 35 poles which now totals 1/4 of an acre, this means my self sufficient plans will be more achievable.
As someone that doesn't eat any meat products, poultry, fish, dairy or any eggs I should be able to produce most things that I need for my diet. I don't push my diet choices on anybody as I think everyone is free to eat what they choose, these are my views. I do try to add as much fruit and vegetables into my families diets as possible and to be honest they are not great meat eaters anyway.
As you can see from the pictures below the extra allotment space has been cleared and part of the space rotovated. Ten poles of the allotment has a vast array of mature fruit trees including 2 cooking apple, 3 eating apple, 2 pear, 1 Damson plum, 1 Mirabelle plum tree, an Asian pear/ nashi pear tree which looks like an apple and a European wild pear tree which looks like crab apple tree. Also in this area is a giant blackberry bush which produces a years supply of blackberries by itself. Just these trees and berry bushes together with the young cherry and plum trees and gooseberry bushes that I already have will supply a years worth of fruit for a family of six. I will be putting raspberry bushes and some UK weather friendly grape vines on this plot also which means I will definitely have a years worth of fruit with minimal effort. As I have all my fruit almost sorted this will leave me free to work on the vegetables.
I have taken on another 15 poles of allotment that was very overgrown as you can see from the pictures above. This brings my allotment to 35 poles which now totals 1/4 of an acre, this means my self sufficient plans will be more achievable.
As someone that doesn't eat any meat products, poultry, fish, dairy or any eggs I should be able to produce most things that I need for my diet. I don't push my diet choices on anybody as I think everyone is free to eat what they choose, these are my views. I do try to add as much fruit and vegetables into my families diets as possible and to be honest they are not great meat eaters anyway.
As you can see from the pictures below the extra allotment space has been cleared and part of the space rotovated. Ten poles of the allotment has a vast array of mature fruit trees including 2 cooking apple, 3 eating apple, 2 pear, 1 Damson plum, 1 Mirabelle plum tree, an Asian pear/ nashi pear tree which looks like an apple and a European wild pear tree which looks like crab apple tree. Also in this area is a giant blackberry bush which produces a years supply of blackberries by itself. Just these trees and berry bushes together with the young cherry and plum trees and gooseberry bushes that I already have will supply a years worth of fruit for a family of six. I will be putting raspberry bushes and some UK weather friendly grape vines on this plot also which means I will definitely have a years worth of fruit with minimal effort. As I have all my fruit almost sorted this will leave me free to work on the vegetables.
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