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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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All Episodes

00:19:13

All things leafmould.

The Plot Thickens - No-Dig, Allotment Living ·

2024/11/19

A short but sweet episode about leaf mould; from the basics of how to create your own to practical application for this natural treasure. A sustainable and low cost way to enrich your garden or allotment..what's not to love?

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00:27:02

Building a Hugelkultur...again

The Plot Thickens - No-Dig, Allotment Living ·

2024/11/12

"HOO-gel-kul-tur" Replicating a forest floor with a Hugelkultur on our allotment plots has brought both amazing soil conditions, lush growth and the odd field mouse or two. Karin's planning to build her's to a higher peak this year as she piles on logs, prunings, christmas trees, leaves and grass cuttings to make the most amazing mound for next spring's seeds.

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00:34:53

Mulch and more

The Plot Thickens - No-Dig, Allotment Living ·

2024/11/05

The Plot Thickens can't think of anything better than an early Sunday morning on the plot having a long conversation about mulch; when to do it, why we do it and with what. That it happens to be No Dig day is icing on the cake.

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00:29:55

Planning A New Plot

The Plot Thickens - No-Dig, Allotment Living ·

2024/10/29

As always, we love diving into the detail of observing and planning a new plot and with Soil Squad's potential new land to be planned, we're all over it! Take a listen for how we work things through, prioritising all the important details such where will the coffee station go.

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00:31:30

Dreaming of Green Johanna

The Plot Thickens - No-Dig, Allotment Living ·

2024/10/22

Vicky has been busy with all things Soil Squad, finally securing a piece of land to be turned into a community composting centre. A whole host of composting systems will be used on the demonstration site, and the pair could not be more excited. Karin is scouring Ebay for her lastest compost obsession; a Swedish Green Johanna hotbin.

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00:25:57

Beckham: Both Feet on the Ground

The Plot Thickens - No-Dig, Allotment Living ·

2024/10/15

Have you seen David Beckham's new love for gardening? Karin's sold, Vicky's clearly not so sure... Vicky's also being a bit of a Halloween grump, while Karin's making plans to collect her street's leftover pumpkins to compost rather than see them disappear. With all this rain and cold, Vicky's tucking her worms in for winter, Karin’s hashing plans for her own homemade wormery and both are regretting not having treated their sheds this summer.

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00:26:56

Paul falls for Charles.

The Plot Thickens - No-Dig, Allotment Living ·

2024/10/08

Love is in the air as Karin's Paul has sat through a whole hour of Charles Dowding and is a converted man. Vicky hasn't had much time on the plot this week and has missed it terribly. The one time she makes it down there she discovers the dreaded blight has arrived, wiping out a half a bed of potatoes. Karin is continuing with her never ending onion planting, and grapples with two new hugelcultures.

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00:25:18

Pockets Full of Pumpkin Seeds

The Plot Thickens - No-Dig, Allotment Living ·

2024/10/01

Did you know it's actually illegal to have a seed swap?!Just one of many interesting facts about seeds, seed saving, seed swapping and seed history that we found out about on our Biodynamic Seed Saving Day at Waltham Place. After a glorious day with our teacher, Andre Tranquillini, we hot foot it back home to record the pod in the car whilst it's all still fresh in our minds.

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00:27:28

Unwelcome visitors on the new plot.

The Plot Thickens - No-Dig, Allotment Living ·

2024/09/24

Paranoia has set in on Karin's new plot; the majority of the strings dividing her beds and paths have been cut. Opinion is divided if this is deliberately done by hostile allotment neighbours or rodents with sharp teeth. Karin is keen to have a natural explanation, Vicky is more inclined to believe the scissor theory. This situation is not made any easier with the find of a teeth mould in the wood chip on one of the new paths, complete with name on the back. The back of Vicky's plot has had

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00:42:22

Onion sets and other seasonal obsessions

The Plot Thickens - No-Dig, Allotment Living ·

2024/09/17

For those ready to geek out over the finer details of onion sets, garlic bulb sowing plans, and budgeting for the season ahead—you’re in the perfect place. But, if that’s not your thing, feel free to jump ahead by a full 13 minutes! We're loving the turn of the season, entering that glorious time of year where we're layering cardboard and compost, sowing green manures, and mulching our garden beds. It's the stuff of our daydreams! Karin’s been hard at work, carefully collecting

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00:20:46

Autumn jobs and pod-iversary

The Plot Thickens - No-Dig, Allotment Living ·

2024/09/10

Charles Dowding's new book Compost has arrived and Vicky is swooning. Karin has made a start of planting for autumn, with spring onions and broadbeans in trays at home. We got a sweet anniversary surprise from Karin's eldest; two pretty The Plot Thickens signs for our respective sheds.

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00:28:39

Look at my lovely pears

The Plot Thickens - No-Dig, Allotment Living ·

2024/09/03

We're talking slugs, again. The allotment's slugs seem to have now all commuted to Karin's plot for a holiday, after finding a deluge of slugs on her plot this morning.Having been despondent about the fox digging up the lettuce seedlings in the bed of Bokashi compost, it's finally come up trumps, providing so many nutrients for Vicky's random pumpkin plant which is absolutely booming. We've both been really disappointed with our corn on the cobs and feels like our sweetcorn

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00:28:02

Back from holiday!

The Plot Thickens - No-Dig, Allotment Living ·

2024/08/27

Finally back to our plots after our holidays! While going away is lovely, coming back to your little green paradise is SO exciting. The familiar paths, the occasional weed to pull and gorgeous smells of ripe fruit and veg!Vicky did a successful watering swap with an allotment neighbour while Paul, scarred by last year's dry disaster, redeemed himself with a fortnight full time watering schedule. All in all a good reunion :-)

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00:19:27

Compost Pets

The Plot Thickens - No-Dig, Allotment Living ·

2024/08/20

Have you ever thought about why we adore our compost so much? We've come to realise that perhaps because it's a living entity. Feeding, nurturing, turning, measuring and watching it mature into something you are proud of is much like having a pet or a child!This episode was recorded 2 weeks ago, it's short and sweet whilst we are away on our holidays! We'll be back with you with with a packed full episode next week! P.S. You might notice Vicky has a bit of a cold, so apologies for

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00:27:52

Foxes and fantastic facebook finds

The Plot Thickens - No-Dig, Allotment Living ·

2024/08/13

Early morning on the plot chatting about all things allotment, foxes, watering (and a lack of) and great useable items from the St Albans Reuse site.

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00:27:39

You've made your own bed...

The Plot Thickens - No-Dig, Allotment Living ·

2024/08/06

When you've been making your own compost for over 20 years, its hard to then just order it in! Karin's struggling with the wish to make all of the Plot 2 beds with her own inputs and yet, wants the job done like, now!To buy or not to buy, that's the question.

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00:37:11

Introducing Soil Squad

The Plot Thickens - No-Dig, Allotment Living ·

2024/07/30

Karin has just finished the last of the ratatouille she made QUITE a few days ago, as expected no one in the family were keen to try it. Vicky has renovated her compost heaps, and is in full swing rearranging the beds on her plot to maximise growing space. Saving the best 'til last, Vicky has big news, introducing her new project Soil Squad! Have a listen!! All very very exciting :-)

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00:30:34

Have you Seen My Stubby Courgette?

The Plot Thickens - No-Dig, Allotment Living ·

2024/07/23

Just another morning of chatter about our week on the plots and a visit to work in the gorgeous hotel kitchen garden. We both have a few courgettes in all shapes and sizes so Karin is looking forward to cooking a ratatouille. Karin's Ratatouille Recipe onion garlic butter olive oil aubergine (1cm quarters) salted until shrivelled) courgette (1cm sliced) tinned tomatoes water salt thyme prep veg fry onion and garlic with butter and olive oil add aubergine, courgette, tomatoes, water

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00:28:48

New half plot!

The Plot Thickens - No-Dig, Allotment Living ·

2024/07/16

The day that Karin has been waiting for has finally arrived; she has been offered another half plot in addition to her existing one, after a 2 1/2 year wait. At first glance it is an odd triangular shape, but this has advantages in terms of defining the compost set up of her dreams. Mimicking Vicky’s pallet compost masterpiece, this four bay baby will produce enough compost to cover the new plot in no time. With thanks to Alex Kizenkov for intro music

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00:14:19

Short and sweet (like my cucumber)

The Plot Thickens - No-Dig, Allotment Living ·

2024/07/09

Mushrooms, mushrooms, mushrooms! How do you grow yours? Karin has some beautiful white oyster mushrooms ready to pick for a creamy pasta dinner. She's extended the mushroom theme throughout her plot like mycelium - she's now layering spores in her raised bed! Vicky's been moving her mushrooms like the Hokey Cokey around her plot with not very impressive results, unlike her 4 small perfectly formed cucumbers. So sorry people, the mic batteries started to fail so this episode is very

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