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.
The Allotment Garden Diary Latest
Allotment Garden Diary
Weather not Good, I’m not Well
April 16, 2024
Started the week with a few hours in the potting shed. Ended with some sort of bug getting me. The strong winds and general sogginess making outside tasks impracticable. Frustration meter now at 150% as some of the outside jobs…
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Cabbage Surprise, Strawberries, Peas
April 06, 2024
Never Say Never! The other day I gave up on my Hispi cabbage seeds that should have been sown by 2018. I’d sowed 5 packets with an average 55 seeds per packet into three half-sized seed trays and only 3…
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Envii Maximato Tomato Feed & Allgrow Multi-Purpose Release
April 02, 2024
Envii, market leaders in biological and organic products for gardeners and horticulturalists, have just released two new organic products. Maximato Tomato Feed and Allgrow All Purpose Feed. Envii Maximato Tomato Feed Envii Maximato is their organic liquid tomato feed made…
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Snow! Pricking Out Seedlings.
April 01, 2024
What a surprise Thursday morning to wake up to heavy snow. It’s like a pretty Christmas card scene outside. I’m pretty sure I read on the Met Office web site that the UK gets more snow at Easter than Christmas…
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Allotment Garden Latest Recipes
Allotment Recipes
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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Greek Lemon Roast Potatoes
November 29, 2018
Submitted by Mumofstig Mumofstig is the forum expert on Greek food. She tells us that these delicious lemon roast potatoes, cooked in huge oven trays, are a traditional accompaniment to the whole barbecued lamb at family Easter celebrations . Ingredients: 1…
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Sweet Corn Spoon Bread Recipe
September 28, 2016
Although named a “bread”, spoon bread is closer in consistency and taste to a savoury pudding. Ingredients for Sweet Corn Spoon Bread: 3 large sweet corn cobs 9oz (250 g) crème fraiche 1 egg 1 oz (28 g) grated parmesan…
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Creamy Beetroot Curry Recipe
August 28, 2016
Recipe for Creamy Beetroot Curry submitted by Madcat. Serves 8 as a side dish, so make a vat and freeze the rest! It makes a great colourful side curry when in a hurry some other time. Ingredients for Creamy Beetroot…
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