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.
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
Strawberries, Choosing & Planting Up Hanging Baskets
January 20, 2025
For the past 6 years I’ve been growing my strawberries in hanging baskets in the polytunnel. The system works really well for me and whilst it is not problem free, it works better than growing outside. The biggest benefit to…
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Shopping Seed Potatoes, The Season Starts
January 19, 2025
For me, the season starts when I get and set out my seed potatoes to chit. The first task is, of course, to get the seed potatoes. Whilst it is possible to save and use your own potatoes as seed…
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New Year Thoughts & Past Influences
January 05, 2025
First of all, Happy New Year to all my readers. Let’s hope 2025 brings fair weather and large crops. New Year Thoughts & Past Influences Traditionally the New Year is a time to take stock, review the year past and…
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Greenhouse Hit Again, Sheep Troubles
December 20, 2024
After Storm Darragh the Deadly had ripped the doors off the big greenhouse and smashed a side pane to fragments, we repaired everything. Happily, I’d enough panes of glass the right size to sort it, so it cost nothing but…
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Allotment Garden Latest 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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