Today I will mostly be growing

Here is where I share my helpful, favourite and recommended website links with you. I hope they help you as much as they have helped me with my vegetable plot.

• My Favourite Links
• Blogs
• Books.
• Forums and Messageboards.
• Organisations and Societies.
• Podcasts and DVD’s.
• Recipes for Plot Vegetables.
• Seed Shops.
• Vegetable Planners - What dates to sow and harvest vegetables.
• Weather Forecasts

My Favourite Links

• Colin Francis Barnes (Horror fiction writer) - my other half’s blog.
• Terasbetoni - Finlands Entry to Eurovision 2008 - I give them my full support!
• Def Leppard’s new album - Songs from the Sparkle Lounge
• Terry Brooks - Official Fantasy Novelist website

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Blogs

Garden and Allotment Blogs

• My Darlington Allotment
• Plot To Plate
• In The Toads Garden
• The Gardeners Pantry
• Soilman’s Allotment Blog
• Vegetable Heaven
• It doesn’t really matter about the rain
• My Tiny Plot
• Steve Partridges Allotment
• Pumpkin Soup
• The Dobby’s Pumpkin Patch
• Sebbsters Allotment
• Inelegant Gardener
• TopVeg
• Snippets and articles from other gardening blogs I am currently reading.

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Books

• Grow Your Own by Carol Klein - from Amazon UK.
• Compost by Kenneth Thompson - Amazon UK
• The Gardeners Year by Alan Titchmarsh - Amazon UK
• The Allotment Cookbook by Kathryn Hawkins Amazon UK
• RHS Pests and Diseases by Dorling Kindersley - Amazon UK

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Forums and Messageboards

• BBC Gardening Messageboard with Allotment Tales, Garden Clinic, Design Inspiration and Gardening Tv boards
• The Grapevine Forum - Grow Your Own Magazine
• The Vegetable Gardening Forum
• Allotments 4 All Forum
• Gardeners Corner Forum

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Organisations and Societies

• Royal Horticultural Society - Grow you own Veg
• Garden Organic (formerly known as HDRA)

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Podcasts and DVD’s

• The Alternative Kitchen Garden by Emma Cooper or Flufflus Muppetus - Podcast or audio Mp3
• Geoff Hamilton Collection - 3 DVD Box Set - Amazon UK
• Itv’s The Allotment - 3 DVD’s £16.99
• Grow Your Own film (2007) Amazon UK

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Recipes for Plot Vegetables

• Plot To Plate Cookbook
• Pickled Runner Beans from TopVeg Blog
• Spiced Pickled Runner Beans by Delia Online
• Recipe Tips - All About Vegetables
• Fresh Tomato Sauce by GYO Forum member
• Red Pepper and Tomato Relish by GYO Forum Member
• Green Tomato Chutney by GYO Forum member
• Vegetable Crumble by GYO Forum member

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Seed Shops

• Mr Fothergill Seeds
• Seedy People - Seed Swap

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Vegetable Planners

• Garden News Complete Veg Planner
• Garden Action Vegetable Diary Planner

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Weather Forecasts

• MetCheck with frost risk chart for your area
• BBC Gardening Weather
• Met Office

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