The Allotment Garden is our largest web site and consists of over 2,000 pages. The site contains a sub-site, The Poultry Pages and a very popular and busy forum Allotment Chat It is the most popular site in its area in the UK.
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Both the Poultry Pages and Allotment Garden contain ‘shops’ which are linked to site partnering affiliate merchants. There is also specialist bookshop utilising Opencart and a section selling the site owners own books.
Both sites also contain diary blogs and Allotment Garden has a large recipe section which is actually a WordPress blog along with a video section that is also based on WordPress.
Much of the site is hard written utilising php for included menus but these are in the process of being transferred to a WordPress based CMS. The whole site is in the process of being re-skinned to a responsive design.
Visitor Statistics
– note figures are approximate and vary seasonally due to the content being gardening related.
- Allotment Garden Main receives around 250,000 visits per month from 150,000 unique visitors and serves around 600,000 pages.
- The chat forum receives around 150,000 visits per month from 100,000 unique visitors and serves around 1 million pages.
- The Poultry Pages receives around 85,000 visits per month from 40,000 unique visitors and serves around 275,000 pages.
- The video section receives around 10,000 visits per month from 5,000 unique visitors and serves around 30,000 pages.
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Allotment Garden Diary
To Spray or Not to Spray
November 22, 2024
I was asked the following question about a situation many new allotment holders find themselves in, clearing an overgrown plot. I am clearing allotment that is totally overgrown with grass, weeds, docks etc. I have cleaned two sections. Should I…
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Pond
November 13, 2024
Thanks for Responding! If you have a pond or you’re thinking of putting a pond in your plot and would like to tell me about it, use the comments section below this post. A garden pond can bring a variety…
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Lettuce, Garlic Parsley & Soup
November 11, 2024
An unexpected way to grow lettuce for the table, planting garlic and a few onions, an observation about parsley and I’ve been making loads of soup. A few weeks back I planted out some lettuce in the polytunnel’s centre bed.…
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Bulgarian Giant Leeks
November 09, 2024
I like to try new varieties each year. Not new varieties of everything, just a few when something catches my eye. Well this year it was Bulgarian giant leeks and they’re amazing. As the name suggests, they’re very large although…
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Allotment Garden Latest Recipes
Allotment Recipes
Potato Soup Recipe
November 06, 2024
I must admit that ‘potato soup’ doesn’t sound particularly exciting but trust me, it’s well worth making. This simple recipe doesn’t take long and the soup is delicious. The recipe produces eight good sized portions, each equivalent to three quarters…
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Rowan and Crab Apple Jelly
October 21, 2024
This lovely, simple recipe for rowan and crab apple jelly and the accompanying photographs of making it submitted by Jacqui H, (JacsH on our forums). Jacqui lives in SW Scotland where rowans or mountain ash as they’re also known are…
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Radish Leaf Soup
September 29, 2024
Radish Leaf Soup Recipe created and tested by John Usually our radish leaves are fed to the hens who convert them to eggs but a friend suggested I could use them to make a soup. I wasn’t convinced but he…
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Slow Cooker Chocolate Lava Pudding
November 29, 2018
Submitted by Mumofstig A self saucing chocolate pudding. Easy, delicious and terribly indulgent! Pudding ingredients 1 cup of plain flour 3 tablespns cocoa powder 6 tablespns butter 1/4 cup choc chips – melted together with the butter in microwave for…
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