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
Broad Beans, Feeding & Extra Protein
March 23, 2025
After a sleepless night from all the fire drama, I really wasn’t up to much on Friday apart from shuffling around doing my impression of a zombie. Time was I could party until 3am, be up and out for 8am…
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Fire Aftermath, Potatoes & Shallots
March 21, 2025
After the drama of last night, it was a relief to see the fire was out this morning. Despite MSN weather insisting we were enjoying heavy rain last night, not a drop fell. It was the hard work of the…
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Fire, Again
March 21, 2025
I’m writing this after 1:00 am. I was getting ready for bed when the phone went just after 11pm. Our neighbour’s calling to ask if we’d seen the fire. Well the hillside that burnt back in 2018 is on fire…
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Potatoes Starting in Pots, Leeks and Sowing
March 17, 2025
Trying for very early potatoes, re-sowing some seeds that didn’t germinate well, surprise with leek seeds and horticultural lighting Last year I shared a potato growing tip in my newsletter and had a few people come back saying how well…
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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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