About

Plot 19 is a real allotment on the edge of town — clay soil, a leaning shed, and more ambition than space. This is its journal.

I took on Plot 19 in 2019 with no real idea what I was doing — just a fork, a fork-load of optimism, and a patch of compacted clay. This journal is the honest record of figuring it out since: the gluts and the failures, the soil and the seasons.

It isn’t a how-to and it isn’t an expert’s blog. It’s three things I care about, kept on one small piece of ground: growing real food, wasting as little as possible, and tending a shelf of homegrown remedies that mostly do the job. If any of it is useful to you, that’s a bonus.

What you’ll find here

The site is organised the way the plot is: the kitchen beds for food, the closed loop for everything I’m doing to waste less, and the apothecary row for the herb patch. The journal ties it together, season by season.

Say hello

The plot is happiest with visitors. Follow the day-to-day on Instagram, or leave your email on the home page for the occasional seasonal letter.