A Dig for Victory allotment

So here's the thing: I'm completely new to this whole gardening lark, and while I'm very enthusiastic about turning my 120 metres squared allotment into a productive piece of land, I have really got the faintest idea where to begin.

So I rambled in to Chapters Bookshop in Parnell St and bought myself a second-hand copy of Gardening for Dummies (on the basis that the fundamental techniques of gardening don't really change between editions of the text; it's not as if there's new functionality in Version Next of a spade, for example).

Of course, I also had a look on Google.

While looking through some Web results on the topic "Starting your won allotment" I found some interesting references to a campaign called Dig for Victory. This intrigued me. This was an initiative for every adult in Britain to keep an allotment for the duration of WW2. Lawns and flower-beds were turned into vegetable gardens. People could have a little extra to eat outside of their government-sanctioned rations.

Here's the important bit for me - instructional leaflets were distributed describing how to create a productive vegetable allotment, aimed at people who had never grow anything but dahlias and roses prior to that time.

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So for my first attempt at allotment-ing, I reckon I'm going to grow a Dig for Victory garden. What are you going to do with your bit of earth?
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Welcome to our blog!

Hello and welcome to the Cúram Gardening Club Blog.

It seems Cúram has some real gardening enthusiasts, or at least people curious enough to give it a go (myself included). There are a few people around the place who are growing their own veg, including, it seems, some interesting construction efforts.

We are going to experiment with a blog on gardening. We hope to feature gardens and gardener, allotments and their owners, gro-bag enthusiasts and their produce, and anyone in between!

If you get a bit inspired, and start trying things for yourself, we might do a special post featuring a few gardens that are of similar styles (like city rooftop gardens, and gardens on a windowsill).
So the purpose of this post is to find out who might be interested in joining the Cúram Gardening Club Blog. All you have to do is send me an email of interest and you are in the club:-).
It isn't anything official yet, but we might be on to something.

This also a space for people wanting to share tips, and tricks, gotchas, "big bang" implementations, and incremental modernisation and transformation of their current green space.

Yours in being Green, Healthy, and Saving Money!
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