a month-by-month guide to getting the best from your allotment from much-loved Radio 2 gardener Terry Walton

The Allotment Almanac

Life on the allotment month-by-month with all this much-loved Radio 2 gardener's best tips for vegetable-gardening success.

The ultimate guide for all keen gardeners and allotmenteers - The Allotment Almanac by BBC Radio 2 gardener Terry Walton gives key advice on what to do each month, key crops, main tasks and top tips of varieties and is shot through with distilled hard-won experience. Entertaining and informative, you won't need anything else! 
 
'The perfect companion for any allotmenteer, and with Terry Walton, you can't go wrong. His friendly advice will guide you each month, with exactly what you should do on your plot' -- English Garden 
'This super little book... for all keen gardeners, especially allotmenteers, who will appreciate the tales but also get some useful tips' -- Kitchen Garden 
'What a lovely little book. Takes you through month by month and really well illustrated. Really pleased with it' -- ***** Reader review 
'The only companion you will need in the allotment' -- ***** Reader review 
'A VERY good book, written from the heart, by a knowledgeable gardener' -- ***** Reader review 
'A must-have for gardeners' -- ***** Reader review 
'As you read this book you feel Terry at your side chatting to you as if on the plot together - a real joy' -- ***** Reader review 
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From a gardener who has been working on his allotment for over 50 years, this is a brilliant guide to organic vegetable growing and allotment life in general. Month-by-month BBC Radio 2 gardener Terry Walton give us invaluable advice on: 
 
- things to do each month 
- what to watch out for 
- key crops for the month 
- top variety tips 
 
 
In addition to this, he peppers this with tales of life on his allotment, creating a charming and heart-warming guide. 
 
Taking the gardening reader by the hand and leading them through the gardening year, Terry is the perfect companion, giving technical help, quick tips, reassurance, and plenty of entertainment along the way. 
 
What are you waiting for?

A great month-by-month guide of what to do as a full-time, almost self-sufficient allotmenteer... full of tips to keep on growing

With all the charm that shone through in his Saga blog, Terry’s brilliant guide to organic vegetable growing and allotment life takes you through the gardening year dispensing technical help, quick tips, reassurance, and plenty of entertainment along the way.

A practical month-by-month guide to allotment growing and life, written in Terry's unique and personal style. The book provides things to do this month, key crops, main tasks and top tips of varieties shot through with distilled hard-won experience of 50 years... Terry also regales readers with tales of life on his allotment to keep you entertained as well as informed.

The perfect companion for any allotmenteer, and with Terry Walton, you can't go wrong. His friendly advice will guide you each month, with exactly what you should do on your plot.

Plenty of Walton's colourful stories alongside solid advice borne out of his 50 years on the plot.

This super little book... for all keen gardeners, especially allotmenteers, who will appreciate the tales but also get some useful tips.

A brilliant guide to organic vegetable growing and allotment life in general, from a gardener who has been working on his allotment for more than fifty years. ... With technical help, quick tips, reassurance and plenty of entertainment along the way.

Browsing this book is like leaning comfortably on a spade and pleasurably absorbing Terry Walton’s wisdom of prepping the plot and filling the veggie box in all seasons.

The Allotment Almanac distils all the hard-earned knowledge, anecdotes and charm that have won Terry so many fans. The result is the perfect companion, combining technical help and reassurance in a month-by-month calendar of life on his now famous plot in the Rhondda Valley.

Packed with gardening wisdom from a lifelong gardener... It made me want to get gardening again

Gardeners of any level of experience will find it charming and dippable

Terry Walton was born in 1946 in the Rhondda, and has lived in South Wales all his life. He has gardened on the same allotment since the age of four. Terry's 'working life' was spent for the most part with a local company, where he became managing director. When he retired he was able to focus on his allotment where he was discovered by Radio 2's Jeremy Vine Show team. Terry gives updates live from his hillside plot every fortnight. He is also on the Jamie &amp; Louise show on BBC Wales Radio once a month in studio, BBC Radio Hereford &amp; Worc once a month live from the allotment, and makes appearances on Channel 4 Super Scrimpers to give his gardening tips.

The ultimate guide for all keen gardeners and allotmenteers - The Allotment Almanac by BBC Radio 2 gardener Terry Walton gives key advice on what to do each month, key crops, main tasks and top tips of varieties and is shot through with distilled hard-won experience. Entertaining and informative, you won't need anything else! 
 
'The perfect companion for any allotmenteer, and with Terry Walton, you can't go wrong. His friendly advice will guide you each month, with exactly what you should do on your plot' -- English Garden 
'This super little book... for all keen gardeners, especially allotmenteers, who will appreciate the tales but also get some useful tips' -- Kitchen Garden 
'What a lovely little book. Takes you through month by month and really well illustrated. Really pleased with it' -- ***** Reader review 
'The only companion you will need in the allotment' -- ***** Reader review 
'A VERY good book, written from the heart, by a knowledgeable gardener' -- ***** Reader review 
'A must-have for gardeners' -- ***** Reader review 
'As you read this book you feel Terry at your side chatting to you as if on the plot together - a real joy' -- ***** Reader review 
**************************************************************************************** 
From a gardener who has been working on his allotment for over 50 years, this is a brilliant guide to organic vegetable growing and allotment life in general. Month-by-month BBC Radio 2 gardener Terry Walton give us invaluable advice on: 
 
 - things to do each month 
 - what to watch out for 
 - key crops for the month 
 - top variety tips 
 
 
In addition to this, he peppers this with tales of life on his allotment, creating a charming and heart-warming guide. 
 
Taking the gardening reader by the hand and leading them through the gardening year, Terry is the perfect companion, giving technical help, quick tips, reassurance, and plenty of entertainment along the way. 
 
What are you waiting for?

Terry Walton

Every time he appears on the programme we feel that life is worth living. He has that power to lift your spirits.

'Every time he appears on the programme we feel that life is worth living. He has that power to lift your spirits.' - Jeremy Vine 
 
Terry Walton has kept an allotment in the Rhondda Valley in South Wales for over fifty years. He started when he was four, helping on his father's plot on the side of the mountain, cutting bracken and collecting sheep manure to feed the vegetables. 
 
He was farming his own plot at eleven and he went on to build an allotment empire, selling his vegetables and flowers to local customers. The proceeds paid for his first car, a canary yellow Ford Popular, when he was just seventeen. Then, in 2006, after half a decade of happy gardening, Terry's allotment was adopted by the Jeremy Vine Show and he became an unlikely media star. 
 
In this absorbing and entertaining memoir, Terry documents how the valley has changed over the years, his own conversion to organic gardening, and the colourful characters he meets; interspersing his anecdotes with topical tips, family recipes and quirky line drawings. 
 
My Life on a Hillside Allotment is the perfect read for gardeners, allotmenteers and anyone who loves the great outdoors.

Terry Walton

Praise for My Life on a Hillside Allotment

Every time he appears on the programme we feel that life is worth living. He has that power to lift your spirits.

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