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The Plot Thickens - No-Dig, Allotment Living

The Plot Thickens

"The Plot Thickens" podcast: Join Karin and Vicky every Tuesday as they dive into their allotment adventures. With coffee in hand, they explore soil, compost, and growing. Not experts, just two passionate women nurturing soil and life. Tune in for their garden triumphs, mishaps, and life lessons. Discover soil enrichment secrets and the happiness found in tending plots. Whether you"re a seasoned allotment gardener or a curious green thumb, this is your green oasis. Join their cozy gardening circle

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00:38:56

Bales and bits

The Plot Thickens - No-Dig, Allotment Living ·

2025/04/08

Vicky has had a tidy up of her plot and got her potatoes in. Karin is chuffed with the germination rate of her seeds in the shop bought seed compost, after smugly proclaiming only a few weeks ago she had converted to her own seed compost mix. Hay bales feature heavily, with a plead to the local branch of Morrisons; please do another beautiful Halloween display and we'll relieve you of them afterwards.

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00:19:35

Library of Things

The Plot Thickens - No-Dig, Allotment Living ·

2025/04/01

Karin is super excited today to visit – Share St Albans, a brand-new Library of Things in our city that’s all about sharing, borrowing, and reducing waste. If you're not familiar with the concept, a Library of Things is a community-driven resource where locals can become a member to borrow things they need instead of buying them – from garden tools and kitchen gadgets to camping gear and DIY equipment. The possibilities are endless!It’s inspiring to see how this concept can make life easier

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00:31:19

Compost chat and making a start on seed sowing

The Plot Thickens - No-Dig, Allotment Living ·

2025/03/25

Vicky has finally made it to her plot and has had a satisfying time turning her compost; getting temperatures that make Karin jealous. Both have done some seed sowing; Karin has trebled her space indoors for trays with some very handy Ikea shoe racks. Her plastic greenhouse in the garden has of course fallen over once again.

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00:20:15

Wild Garden

The Plot Thickens - No-Dig, Allotment Living ·

2025/03/18

This week, we’re shaking things up a little by recording in the afternoon, with a pot of coffee, from a Community Wild Garden near Vicky’s home. Surrounded by nature, this inspiring spot sets the tone for today’s conversation—all while Vicky stays close to home.

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00:22:48

Second chance salad

The Plot Thickens - No-Dig, Allotment Living ·

2025/03/11

Probably the shortest episode ever, due to a traumatic week in Vicky's household. Karin is planting seeds for both, and is relieved to have found a solution of sorts to the lettuce growing slug problem; a high rise salad bar right outside the back door in the garden.

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00:18:51

Pigeon Buffet

The Plot Thickens - No-Dig, Allotment Living ·

2025/03/04

Are you getting itchy fingers to get sowing? Or have you got cell trays balancing on every sill? As we spring in March, seed swaps are on the calendar and we're looking forward to the sowing season. Karin's full steam ahead, Vicky's in the planning phase still with Pigeons still munching on last year's broccoli.

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00:28:21

A springtale surprise

The Plot Thickens - No-Dig, Allotment Living ·

2025/02/25

It's been a mixed half term, full of exciting but also sad events. Karin had to say goodbye to her beautiful German Shepherd Tilly, leaving an empty feeling house. Vicky has spent her birthday present; a microscope course at the Soil Ecology Laboratory. She has come away full of new knowledge of all things soil, putting her microscope to good use looking at her own bokashi.

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00:21:53

The Spuds & The Smudge

The Plot Thickens - No-Dig, Allotment Living ·

2025/02/18

Karin has a very bold plan for her plot 2 - a market style garden full of spuds for the summer, a great way to aerate her potentially compacted soils and suppress old weed growth with the potato abundant leaves. Vicky shares an update of Soil Squad's news after a busy week of preparations for the plot, including building a re-used and repurposed version of Mr Dowding's compost bay shelter and getting ready for the website's photo shoot!Happy listening peeps.

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00:30:18

Winter harvest of Jerusalem artichokes

The Plot Thickens - No-Dig, Allotment Living ·

2025/02/11

Vicky has finally decided on the lay out of her plot; making two long beds to the back, giving her lots of efficient growing space. Karin has had an unexpectedly large harvest of an often over-looked tuber; the Jerusalem artichoke, enabling her to make a big batch of the soup of her dreams. A short episode due to the chilly morning; Vicky is finding warmth and a short spell of dizziness from her sixth coffee of the morning.

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00:22:55

We love a mole hill

The Plot Thickens - No-Dig, Allotment Living ·

2025/02/04

Did you know that mole hills offer the best seed compost nature has to offer? In this episode, Karin shares her plans and recipe for making her own seed compost using her leaf mould as a lovely fluffy base . As always, we share the latest updates on our bokashi compost and the winter b&b it provides. We've been clearing the Soil Squad plot and finding all sorts of random items on the plot, one that could be donated to the Library of Things at The Green House, St Albans Eco hub.

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00:39:50

Soil exhibition at Somerset House

The Plot Thickens - No-Dig, Allotment Living ·

2025/01/28

Vicky has been to Somerset House for the Soil exhibition and has come away suitably inspired. Karin has been under the weather and has spent almost no time on the plot. Her old trusty car has made it through another MOT though, making more potential compost collections possible.

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00:26:12

Clean out of ideas.

The Plot Thickens - No-Dig, Allotment Living ·

2025/01/21

If you like listening to someone else clean their tools, then this is certainly the episode for you. If not, then we can only apologise and use this episode as an excellent remedy for insomnia.

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00:26:38

Sunrise on the plot

The Plot Thickens - No-Dig, Allotment Living ·

2025/01/14

A quiet early morning on the plot, watching the sunrise and listening to the birds waking up. In all transparency, not much has been done this week on the plots due to the frosty layer covering the ground. The lighter days on the way though, spring will soon be here!

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00:48:26

Living off Leftovers

The Plot Thickens - No-Dig, Allotment Living ·

2025/01/07

This episode was recorded on a dark, snowy morning on Sunday. Just beautiful to feel the cold snap at our fingertips. Karin and Vicky are living off their leftovers this week and stumble across an idea for composting food waste across holiday homes in Norfolk. NB post recording, Vicky found out that quite a few Norfolk council's do in fact recycle food waste but hey ho, a composting service would still be welcome maybe? Karin's been busy on her plot over Christmas, hunting for worms in her

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00:27:45

New Year 2024

The Plot Thickens - No-Dig, Allotment Living ·

2024/12/31

A very Happy New Year from the plot!

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00:13:34

Merry Christmas From The Plot!

The Plot Thickens - No-Dig, Allotment Living ·

2024/12/24

It's Christmas Eve and we are sending you love and light from Karin's shed as we exchange pressies and celebrate with you, wherever you are. This episode is just long enough to listen to whilst you peel 10 potatoes, wrap a few pressies or walk the dog around the block. We'd like to thank the following artists for the Christmas themed jingles on this episode: MissyWhimsyArt - sleigh bells VoiceBosch - jingle bells Free sound - SantaClaus

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00:24:37

Plans for the Plots - 2025

The Plot Thickens - No-Dig, Allotment Living ·

2024/12/17

As the shortest day of the year approaches, we look forward to the longer evenings and all of the possibilities that 2025 holds for the allotment, on all 4 of our half plots! Looking back on the few allotment diary entries we both made in 2024, it was clear we started our sowing way too early last year and so we'll be holding back on any sowing until March next year....will we resist the temptation?!

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00:34:54

Thanks for nothing 2024

The Plot Thickens - No-Dig, Allotment Living ·

2024/12/10

An upsetting look back on the year that was 2024. A year of a cold spring, a huge amount of slugs, an even colder summer and a harvest so small that you would struggle to sustain a person even for a few days. Vicky's lists her wins as mostly structural. A shed and a fresh compost set up. Roll on 2025!

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00:38:35

Christmas list 2024; from dibbers to Dowding.

The Plot Thickens - No-Dig, Allotment Living ·

2024/12/03

What do you give an allotmenteer who has most things she needs? Listen in as Vicky and Karin discuss dreamy gifts, some of which MIGHT be homemade in time for Christmas.

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00:35:30

What's a Johnson-Su Bioreactor then?

The Plot Thickens - No-Dig, Allotment Living ·

2024/11/26

Today we dive into the wonder that is the Johnson-Su Bioreactor exploring the why, how, what and wheres of building this microbe and mycelium making composting system. We talk through the benefits for soil health and find the step-by-step construction amazing. Unlike the name suggests, this isn't rocket science and actually an easily built little system that will sit quietly on the plot for a year, busily making the most beautiful compost inoculant. There's little else discuss other than the

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