Your first season on a flinty chalk allotment
Taking on an allotment on thin, flinty chalk: clearing it in stages, feeding the soil, growing brassicas well and a month-by-month plan for year one.
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Alice Fairweather
Alice gardens on thin, flinty chalk and keeps an allotment that teaches her something new each season. She writes about cottage plants, vegetables and gardening with birds in mind.
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Chalk garden plants for thin, dry soil
Thin alkaline chalk soil in north Hertfordshire dries fast and starves greedy plants. These are the plants and habits that cope with it best.
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