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Make the most of your allotment with new Allotment Notebook

The RHS Allotment Notebook is a perfect companion for allotment holders who want to get the most out of their plot. This structured record book, which will encourage you to identify the strengths and weaknesses of your plot as well as providing a useful file for record keeping, will help you record what works and what doesn’t as well as helping with planning, rotation of crops etc.

Gardeners know the importance of keeping a structured record of the gardening year and the same applies to the allotment holder. The RHS Allotment Notebook has a series of tabbed sections which will help with forward planning, including crop rotation charts and various calendar options; dates and yields of individual harvests can be recorded to monitor seasonal produce and an undated diary section allows you flexible journaling of day-to-day activities on your allotment.

There is also an Expenses and Supplies section and useful pockets for you to put in seed packets, copies of orders, lists and seed labels etc., and a wipe-clean ‘to-do’ list will help make the most of every visit.

Author, Lia Leendertz writes a column for The Guardian and is a regular contributor to the RHS magazine, The Garden. She has illustrated the RHS Allotment Notebook with images of vegetables from the RHS Lindley Library. With a fresh contemporary design, this really is an excellent aid for all allotment holders and makes a perfect gift for the vegetable gardener in your family.

The RHS Allotment Notebook is published by Frances Lincoln and is available at £12.99.

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