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
S-Chelate Introduce New Tomato Feed
July 23, 2024
S-Chelate have launched a new fertiliser formulated specifically for tomatoes. When Greenhouse Sensations ceased trading it seemed that we’d no longer be able to obtain Nutrigrow fertiliser, which I mainly used in my Quadgrow wicking pot growing systems. Of course…
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Gardening questions and answers – July 2024
July 20, 2024
Just a few of the questions this month. Deterring blackfly, controlling slugs on brassicas and great tip on saving strawberries from slugs. I can’t reply individually to everyone (although I try) or I’d get nothing done. A lot of questions…
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Highs and Lows
July 14, 2024
I must admit this weather is really getting me down. I try to be positive but it’s more like autumn than summer out there. Still, I’ve got the greenhouses and the polytunnel where I can play work really hard. Outside…
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Re-sowing seeds, salad bed, propagating strawberries.
July 01, 2024
This has been a really difficult season so far. The weather is really against us and the pest pressure is crazy. Seed germination has been awful and what do manage to emerge are getting gobbled up by slugs and snails.…
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Allotment Garden Latest 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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