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Frozen solid

rickandjeannesplot — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:42:57 +0000

Took the kitchen waste to the allotment today and looking at the frozen ground it was obvious that there was nothing that could be done today, so it was off for a trip to the garden centre to buy a few odds and ends. We bought some onion sets and also some gladioli corms for the flower plot. On the way home we popped into the local Aldi store and while shopping picked up a pack of soft fruit bushes . There was 3 small bushes in each pack ! gooseberry and 1 each of a red and a yellow raspberry although small the 3 were only£2.49 . @ 83p a plant I would say the are a real bargain although I dont expect any fruit until next year

Thinking of starting a blog? Jump in!

Ben Heaton — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 15:43:51 +0000

Hello there. Vegblogs.co.uk wants to sign up 10,000 new vegetable garden bloggers in 2012.

It’s completely free to create a blog, and if you keep it up to date, you can earn free vegetable seeds from vegetableseeds.net. We’ve just sent out vouchers for over £800 worth of vegetable seeds in October 2011, to our existing team of bloggers.

The next allocation of free seeds will be in March 2012, and will be a voucher for £10 to be spent at vegetableseeds.net

In order to qualify your blog has to have the following:

1. Been updated regularly, with articles of 100+ words, with original photographs (from your garden or allotment) included in the article.

2. Upload a site avatar and a personal avatar image on your blog.

3. Upload an “About” article telling the world who you are.

4. Add a link on your blog to vegetableseeds.net, who are the owners of vegblogs.co.uk.

5. You must also have posted a comment on on of your fellow bloggers articles – verybody loves a bit of encouragement and appreciation after all.

All the best

The vegblogs.co.uk team

October Free Seed Allocation Has Been Made!

Ben Heaton — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 14:43:41 +0000

Hello everybody!

The Autumn 2011 free seed allocation has been made. The standard of vegblogs goes up and up. We're hoping to recruit thousands of new vegbloggers in 2012, we hop you will join us.

The following blogs were all rewarded in the Autumn 2011 free seed allocation…
rickandjeannesplot, livingofftheland, homegrowing, crowleallotment, comptonpatch, bottomofthegarden, highbarns, hensandbeansdancing, myveggies, hinghamnewbees, vinecottage,	urbanescape, sunshinecoastallotmentdiary, themartinsplotblog, malx, surrey, clay, escapethekids, traceychurchill, poddingtonandp, weedstoseeds, chubbly,	plot18, vicarage, growingstrong, fruitvegchickenrabbit, vayabayapatchwork, englishrosefrenchgarden, warwickshiregarden, northbynorth, wildman, rbveg11,

How To Update Your “Avatar”

Ben Heaton — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:30:56 +0000

An Avatar (example left) is the image that appears next to your blog, or next to any comments you make on another blog. It can be anything you like. My Avatar is of me digging in the garden with my son John.

Slightly confusingly, we all need to have two Avatars uploaded, one for our “Blog” and one for any comments we make on other peoples blogs. An important point is that once you have your Avatars up live you never have to change them again – frozen in time forever young! It only takes 2 minutes – the instructions for getting this sorted are listed below:

1. Updating Your Personal Avatar (this accompanies all your site contributions in forums across the network of vegblogs).

In the left hand menu of your admin area look for the heading titled “Users”, and click on “Your Avartar”. The page that appears has clear instructions on how to add an Avatar.

2. Updating Your “Blog Avatar” (this is the avatar which symbolises your site and allows people to find your site by clicking on your avatar.)
In the left hand menu of your admin area look for the heading titled “Settings”, and click on “Blog Avartar”. The page that appears has clear instructions on how to add an Avatar.

All the best
Ben

Any problems please give me a shout on support@vegetableseeds.net

How To Add A Link To Your “Blogroll”

Ben Heaton — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:45:17 +0000

Here is how to add a link to your “Blogroll”. A “Blogroll” is just a list of your favourite websites. Here is the method for adding a link to vegetableseeds.net (which you need to do to qualify for free seeds from vegetableseeds.net).

1. Login to the admin centre:
2. On the left hand side is a list of menus. Near the bottom of the list is a section titled “Appearance”. Within this section is a link called “Widgets”. Click this.
3. Lots of different widget titles will appear on the screen. Click and drag the one titled “Links” over onto the section on the right hand side of the page titled “Sidebar 1” and click “Save”.
4. Now you need to add the specific link to “vegetableseeds.net”. In the left hand menu there is a section titled “Links”. Click it. The sub-menu gives you the option to “add a link”. Click this option. It’s then very straightforward to add the link. All done!