Allotment Websites

Websites of general interest

The links ........

GENERAL INTEREST

1. Allotment Garden​

   • A comprehensive website relating to all aspects of allotment gardening, packed with useful information, advice, articles, forum and much more

2. Allotment Regeneration Initiative Factsheets

   • A large collection of factsheets offering advice on a wide range of subjects about allotment management. Archived and presented by the Barnet Allotment Federation​

3. Wikipedia  -  Allotments

   • ​The definition of an allotment as defined by Wikipedia together with worldwide comparisons

4. Allotment Resources

   • ​An online research tool intended for everybody who is interested in finding out more about allotments

5. Allot more Allotments

   • ​Tips and advice on how to lobby for more allotments

6. NHS live well  -  grow your own fruit & veg

   • ​The NHS 'live well' webpage promoting the health benefits of growing your own fruit & vegetables

7. BBC Big Allotment Challenge

   • ​The TV game show where contestants put their allotment knowledge & skill to the test

8. Gardening with children

   • ​An interactive gardening website for kids, schools & parents

9. Eat Seasonably

   • ​Helps you enjoy fresh fruit and veg at its seasonal best

10. Which: Grow your own vegetables & salad

    • ​Money-saving growing secrets

11. Love the  garden

    • ​Packed with expert gardening advice, tips, inspiration & competitions

12. Garden Organic

    • ​ An organic growing charity dedicated to researching and promoting organic gardening

13. Carry on Composting

    • A website designed to promote and encourage composting of garden and food waste

14. Grow your own Potatoes

    • ​A national hands-on project that teaches primary school children where potatoes come from and how they grow

15. Love 2 learn allotmenting

    • ​An allotment website dedicated to helping the home or allotment gardener enjoy growing fruit and vegetables

16. Dig my plot

    • ​An allotmet holder's personal website sharing their experience and knowledge

17. The Allotment Garden

    • ​The organic gardening magazine. A variety of gardening information

18. Garden Guides

    • ​How to grow plants, start a garden, get gardening tips or find supplies

19. People & Planet

    • ​Student action on world poverty & the environment - grow your own

20. Allotment Regeneration Initiative​

    • ​Case studies from the federation of city farms & community gardens

21. Young Allotmenteers

    • A group of like-minded individuals with a passion for allotment growing​

22. Self sufficient UK

    • ​A wide range of up to date information about self sufficient living

23. UK Gardening

    • ​Interesting and useful information for the novice gardener

24. Lets go Gardening

    • ​A wealth of gardening information to help turn your garden into a beautiful outdoor paradise.

25. Garden Fresco

    • ​Gardening made easier & cheaper with easy to follow "How To" guides

26. Kids Gardening

    • ​Connects children and their families with other schools with similar gardening interests

27. Gardenate - Garden Calendar

    • ​Planting guide and calendar about which vegetables to start this month

28. Allotmenteer

    • ​ An old online community for allotment gardeners containing some useful information

29. Allotmentor

    • ​Get the best out of a wide range of crops and tackle common pests and diseases, including a vegetable diary, online planner and notebook

30. Grow Veg

    • ​Garden Planning apps which help you grow fruit and vegetables whatever the size, shape or style of your garden

31. Project Dirt

    • ​UK network connecting and resourcing environmental and community projects

32. The Gardener's Almanac

    • ​A guide to growing flowers, fruit and vegetables for the ornamental garden and allotment. Organised as a weekly task list

33. Grow your own online TV channel

    • ​Down to earth gardening series of online videos and articles for everyone

34. Choose organic

    • ​Advice and information to help you to go organic

35. The Herb expert

    • ​Tips on herb gardening including how to cook with herbs with some recipes to try

36. No dig organic gardening

    • ​Promoting a 'no dig' technique of vegetable gardening. Featuring a range of articles, information on courses and a photo gallery

37. Go self sufficient

    • Information and advice about becoming self sufficient

38. UK Here we grow

    • ​Advice on Gardening, Allotmenteering & Self sufficiency for the modern world

39. Potato variety database

    • ​Comprehensive & independent data on GB-certified potato varieties

40. Blight Watch

    • ​An online service supported by the British Potato Council assisting gardeners in the control of blight

41. The Gardener's Calendar

    • Gardening techniques and advice plus mobile app

42. The Vegetable Expert

    • ​How to plant, grow, harvest, store & cook vegetables

43. Adopt a Veg

    • ​ Adopt a veg to help fund the work of the Heritage Seed Library

44. Soil & Health Library

    • ​A free library of downloadable e-books about agriculture, natural hygiene, and self-sufficient homestead living

45. Garden Action

    • ​Information source for vegetable, fruit, herb and plant care in the garden and allotment

46. Garden Focused

    • ​Gardening for the amateur gardener made simple by the experts, written in easy to understand language with lots of pictures and videos

47. Selfsufficientish

    • ​Information on growing plants, wild food recipes, and alternatives to lead a low impact urban life

48. The Vegetable Patch

    • ​Useful site with handy tips on starting a vegetable garden and growing vegetables & fruit

49. Gardening Patch

    • ​ A host of articles about vegetable gardening, fruits and herbs

50. Thrive - Carry on Gardening

    • ​A national charity that helps people with a disability to start or continue gardening

51. The Secret Seed Society

    • ​This society aims to spread the fun of growing and cooking your own food with children

52. Earth Friendly Gardener

    • ​ A look at how what we do in our gardens affects the natural world around us

53. Slug Off

    • ​Everything you ever wanted to know about the slug, and everything you ever wanted to know about controlling them

54. Down the Plot

    • ​Life on a London allotment

55. Grow your Own - Scotland

    • ​ A single resource for all grow your own organisations throughout Scotland

56. Wood Allotments

    • ​A wood allotment gives you a carefully marked number of trees to chop down yourself for firewood in a local woodland that is in need of thinning

57. Manure Matters

    • ​Dow AgroScience's online article about Aminopyralid contaminant in manure

58. Allotment Gardening

    • ​Information and help about how to care for your allotment garden in the vegetable gardening season

59. Grown in the UK

    • ​Website devoted to quality food, ornamentals and wood grown in the UK

60. My Allotmnet Garden

    • ​Ideas on allotment gardening, books, planning, experiments & product reviews

61. The Great Grub Club

    • ​A fun site for all the familiy which includes an A-Z of fruit & veg

62. Veggie Harvest

    • A Definitive Source for Vegetable and Herb Gardening Information

63. The Green Home

    • ​Advice for living a greener lifestyle

64. Mantis' Complete Guide to maintaining a successful allotment

    • ​A very comprehensive and informative article from the Mantis blog pages