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
Bad Back, Raised Beds, Polytunnel Producing
April 20, 2025
I sometimes feel that my life is a game of snakes and ladders. Especially so with my back. After regular visits to the osteopath and being very cautious, all seemed well. So, I came back after what was supposed to…
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April Update
April 09, 2025
There was a time when I could do a day’s work on the plot and then write it up in the evening. Nowadays I find I’m more likely to fall asleep on the couch than make it into the office.…
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Envii Release Root Well Organic Plant Root Stimulant
April 02, 2025
Envii, market leaders in biological and organic products for gardeners and horticulturalists, have an amazing product – Root Well – an innovative biological product that combines mycorrhizal fungi inoculant with bacteria to supercharge root growth, plant development and improve resilience…
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Pot Growing Brassicas, Recycling, Mice Q&A
March 30, 2025
Generally, I’d rather people post questions on the forums rather than email me. I don’t believe any one person has all the answers, and our forums provide a number of opinions and approaches to problems. There is another benefit in…
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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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