I love this time of year, sitting down inside beside a fire flicking through seed catalogues, planning out the plot and dreaming of all the homegrown goodness that the year will bring! I thrive on being organised and love a good storage system so I’m very excited to beable to offer this amazing giveaway!
The lovely team at Burgon and Ball kindly sent me this beautiful seed storage tin and a rather handy money box for that all important seed fund, all to give away to one lucky winner!
All you need to do is comment below on this blog post explaining what you’re most excited about growing this year. Enter before midnight on Thursday the 23rd of January and I’ll randomly choose a winner on Friday morning. All entries must be from the UK only.
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I am most excited about my cut flower patch.
I’ll be growing Panicum grass, cosmos, achillea, sunflowers, zinnia, verbena and lots more! I’m also going to try and grow ornamental cabbages this year!
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This year im most looking forward to getting to grips with cauliflowers and better broccoli and ensuring I have harvests well into winter! Its all about the planning!šš„
Hi there, this year Iām going to extend my chilli growing which I had success with for the first time last year so I can share lots of different varieties with friends at work who all enjoyed this years harvests. š
This year Iām most looking forward to growing a few more flowers and companion planting with my veg! Also to learn from last years mistakes and increase yield! Lots of different sweet peas sown already! Roll on spring!
This is my second year with an allotment and I am excited about it all! I’m going to try beetroot this year, because it tastes so good when it’s raw and fresh. I’m also hoping my peas will grow this year…
Iām super excited to grow Delphiniums on our new allotment plot (alongside all the great vege planned). This seed organiser would be fantastic!
My 11 year old son has shown his first bit of interest this year in my allotment hobby and has asked to plant some potatoes in buckets..
So this year I am looking forward to growing potatoes with the boy.. Maybe he’s got green fingers after all š¤šš¦ššššš·ļøš±
Hi Katie,
I am most excited about growing anything and everything! Only just moved to a garden space big enough to grow, and am still waiting for my allotment, so just looking forward to getting going, however I do have a particular fondness for tomatoes.
Forced rhubarb! Weāve let it do itās own thing on the plot last couple years but our plot neighbours lent us a bin this time so excited to try!
I’m so excited for another year of growing! Not just the tried and tested faves but experimenting with new varieties! This year I’m also so excited to grow flowers for cutting, following Swancottageflowers on instagram for all the tips and tricks!!
I’m going to up my squash game this year! Really want to try and do some climbing squash! I’m also looking to grow way more flowers this year – I missed out on my tulips but I’m going to give ranunculus (along with many others!) a go in some pots as they are my favourite ever š
Love your blog x
I am most excited about growing ranunculus as cut flowers as a first for me, and giving sweet peas a proper go for the first time ever, shockingly for a gardener Iāve never really tried them before!
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This year I am most excited about growing the blackberry bushes I have rescued when taking over the plot in December.
This will also be my first year growing fruits/vegetables/flowers so I am really excited about it all generally š
This year I am determined to grow successfully some sweetcorn! My first growing season in 2018 the weather was perfect but the badgers and mice got to my cobs before I could and 2019 the weather was awful and they never matured š¢. 2020 is going to be my year for corn I know it!
This year Iām most excited about finally growing a wide variety of summer and winter squash! We played catch up last year and missed the opportunity to sow them so now weāve just taken on the next door plot as well there is no excuse as Iāve specifically planned in a squash patch!! Eeeek! š šš»
Itās my first year on my allotment (I got it in November) so there isnāt much Iām not excited about growing āŗļøāŗļø
Wow, what a great prize. I’m currently storing my seeds in the bottom of my wardrobe in a plastic tub to keep them dry. Would love a proper tin to keep in my shed! This year I’m looking forward to spending more time growing in the garden. I’ve just finished a professional doctorate degree that took up a lot of my spare time. Definitely looking forward to planting more seeds and growing some veggies in the garden this year with my new found time!
Hello, I’ve been following you on Instagram for a little while as you have so many lovely posts and I am trying to pick up tips. I moved into a new build in the summer and have never properly gardened before, an empty patch of grass is quite daunting but exciting! I have two toddlers and they have both asked for seeds for part of their birthday presents, so we will be learning from scratch together this year and this will be great for storing those little seed packets and for saving their pennies! We are growing pink flowers, flowers for wildlife and veg x
I donāt have much space so I try and do things slightly differently. Going to go for vertical butternut squash this year….wish me luck!
Hi my wife has her first plot this year, and she is so excited about growing flowers and some veg all mixed in together also some flowers for cutting
So a couple of years ago, I lived in a tiny cottage which had an allotment in the garden. I tried growing my own food for the first time. Unfortunately, my life took a different route and I moved back in with my parents. Since then, I’ve moved again and now with my partner and his mum. I’m lucky enough to have a long garden and her allowing me to grow food in it!
So this year, I’m starting fresh! Building 5 raised beds, I’m going to do the normal 4 year rotation plus another for other bits. I’m SO excited! I’ve never been any good at looking after house plants, but I learned that allotments are just amazingly rewarding, and I was never happier than when in the garden!
Honestly, I’m just looking forward to getting back to it and eating my own organically grown food! Nothing tastes better than when you’ve grown it yourself!
Potatoes are already chitting, and I haven’t even built the beds yet!
This year we are looking forward to our first year as allotmenteers. I can’t wait to see our screentien turned into family gardening time. I’m also excited about our daughter being bought up outside in the mud just like is was and eating fresh produce we grow ourselves šš±
Fennel is what I really want to grow! I have tried it a few times, from seed or with bought plants but no joy. They have bolted every time.
I am giving it one more try..
I am looking forward to growing everything!! We recently moved into a new house with a neglected garden, after an autumn of clean up I have spent the winter planning and plotting. I am trying to grow 90% of our large flower beds from seed so although I have experience of growing vegetables on the plot this year I am most looking forward to sewing and growing flowers for our new garden.
How gorgeous! I’m so looking forward to the new joint plot coming together! This year I’m really looking forward to (hopefully) growing more munchkin pumpkins and loads more strawberries, as my few I had last year were delicious! X
I am excited about growing cucamelons, inspired by you Katie! Thank you for all your inspiration!
I’m looking forward to growing cucamelons š I’ve just got some seeds, so I am ready to go!
What beautiful box! Iām very excited about growing squashes vertically and tumbling cucamelons down a basket obelisk ššš
Just taken on an allotment Nov 2019, I need all the help I can to get organised – this tin would be a great start!!
I love beans and peas, and I’m looking forward to growing different beans this year. I have bought Yin Yang and Czar which I’ll dry and use for winter dishes.
Love this. I have just taken on my first half plot and been following you for ages. Xx
Forgot to say I’m looking forward to starting a little patch with my 7 yr old daughter with lettuce,radish ,onions etc.
Hi! I’m most excited for my planters! I’m going all white this year and can’t wait for the show!
Lovely! Iām excited to grow potatoes. Last year was my first tome growing them and I only had one pot. I canāt wait to grow more & different varieties this year! š
Itās going to be my second season on my allotment plot this year so Iām still excited about everything! Weāre going to be building more raised beds before the spring so weāll have lots more space and be able to grow a bigger variety than last year. Iām particularly excited about having a whole bed dedicated to cut flowers!! Bring on the growing season!! Xx
This year Iām most excited about growing more fruit. Weāve finally got the bed at the end of the garden under control and are going to attempt to frame it so we can have fruit bushes inside. Very excited about the weather warming up.
My one little Butternut squash plant produced such a good harvest last year I am keen to grow more and different varieties. Definitely the Munchkins I think!
Most excited about growing my fruit & veg mini patch and hopefully some flowers, the first for my garden as we only moved in last summer and it’s full of overgrown shrubs and hedges right now so I’ve got a lot of pruning and clearing to do so I can get some colour in my garden this year!
That’s a lovely seed box. I’m just looking forward to another growing year on the allotment and growing all the fruit and veg which we love to eat.
We especially love peas and beans and never seem to have enough of them.
Looking forward to just growing my fruit and veg ( mainly my mini pumpkins) And seeing if my weed matting around my fruit bushes stops the weeds growing then that will be an area I can forget about. Sara x
Most looking forward to seeing my new border grow and fill out. Also tried out some bulb lasagnes for the first time after watching your vid!
This year I am most excited about being able to involve my little girls, what we grow doesnāt matter as much as spending precious time together and them learning how to grow delicious fruits and vegetables. My eldest daughter (5) however, is very excited to grow peas and strawberries this year and is really hoping that she has another successful lettuce crop, she grew the most amazing lettuce last year!
I am in the process of converting an old swimming pool into a large polytunnel, so I am really excited about all of the things I am going to be growing in there. I am thinking peppers, aubergines, loads of tomatoes!
I am going to sow more flowers this year and so looking forward to being able to decorate my home with posies of flowers during the Summer. I just received Larkspur seeds in misty lavender this morning so now all I need is a storage box for them until they are ready to sow x
I’m most excited about growing various types of squash… I still haven’t decided which ones yet! Last year our baby was due in Autumn, so I didn’t grow any squash knowing I’d probably be a little busy to harvest them š but this year he can help us eat them!
I’m looking forward to spending time on my little piece of earth. Enjoying the season’s and growing food my family will enjoy. All helping my mental health, keeping me grounded and happy.
We only received our allotment in December, so if we grow anything it would be fantastic! Iām most looking forward to beans, peas and carrots.
Hi Katie I am looking forward to growing a hyacinth and some Daffodils on my window Sil. Charlotte xxx
I’m excited about getting my second plot very soon! Looking forward to more planning and planting x
Weāve recently moved to an old house with a wonderfully neglected overgrown garden so weāre looking forward to hugely cutting back, reclaiming, reinstating and putting our mark on what was once a vegetable and fruit production area! So itās (fingers crossed) going to be lots of homegrown goodies with borage, nasturtiums and calendula flowers.
Iām looking forward to growing lots of veg and flowers for cutting as usual but Iām most excited by trying to grow Lisianthus and eucalyptus for the first time.
Hi Katie,
I have taken on my first plot (beginning of November) and have had rain ever since lol. So very overgrown, not been worked for years.
Weeds all down and starting to dig over, so I’m really looking forward to growing anything but weeds lol.
On a more series note, have used your blog as a must go to whilst awaiting a plot, so my wildlife pond will play a major part in my plot with the lovely flowers and the gorgeous Jack be Little pumkins ( coukdnt get Munchkin) so excited for the growing season to start. Good luck with your new joint plot and look forward to following you progress on the plot.
I am most looking forward to growing runner beans and french beans . Nothing beats growing your own beans !
Also tomatoes , beetroot and new potatoes . I lost my gardening mojo a little during the winter months , have just
been to the allotment and now my excitement is back .
I am most looking forward to growing runner beans and french beans . Nothing beats growing your own beans !
Also tomatoes , beetroot and new potatoes . Hurry up spring !
Iām looking forward to growing carrots and tomatoes and my favourite giant sunflowers.
Hi Katie! Last year, I managed to grow only a handful of strawberries and the birds got most of them. My strawberry plants sprouted lots of babies though, which I hope will give me a much bigger harvest of strawberries this summer. I am also excited to add some flowers to the garden but need to do some research to help me plan out my little growing space.
Hi Katie, I’m looking forward to growing mange tout this year as it’s pricey in the shops. Also more winter squashes of various colours and sizes!
Louise
Have some red current tomatoes I picked up at Malvern – havenāt tasted them but they look so pretty!
It’s my first full year on the plot so I’m excited to grow EVERYTHING! š looking forward to some fresh tomatoes, rainbow carrots and squash though! Also hoping to grow some nice flowers for the house too.
I have lots of Sarah Raven marigold seeds, saved from last year’s flowers, also some sunflower seeds. I also want to sow those ‘paper flowers…I call them everlasting blooms. Lots of Cosmos to form a vibrant display too.
The bulbs from last year…Belle Epoch tulips I have kept in a well manured huge pot and sheltered it under a tree during the winter…want to see if it has survived and if it will surprise me.
My nearest neighbour gave me his surplus cuttings off his logan berry bushes and also blackberry cuttings…they have rooted, long to see if they spring forth with lots of leaves and fruit.
Tucked a strand of Wisteria, still half joined to the main plant, into the soil to see if it will form another vine too…and several clematis cuttings to plant out as the Northumberland weather eventually warms up.
After years of growing vegetables on the allotment, I’m so excited to start growing flowers this year. I’m actually really scared about it! I think this is how I felt when I started with veg – apprehension, what happens it nothing grows, what if something goes wrong?! Spring bulbs were planted in November – Sweetpeas, lupins and delphinium were planted yesterday. There’s more in store in the coming months. I must remember to but my seed potatoes next week amongst all the excitement!!
I’m looking forward to growing a wider variety of salads this year. They taste so much better fresh out of the garden!
I think it’s probably my fruit. Myself and my partner have been doing our best to live plastic free for the past couple of years and this has meant not buying much fruit from the shop, which I have missed a lot as I used to eat a lot. So this year we have lots of blueberries going in, as well as cranberries, gooseberries, raspberries, plum trees, a fig tree, red and blackcurrants (grown from hardwood cuttings, which has been an education!) and more rhubarb. This is on top of all the veg and flower seeds I’ve ordered (not sweating under the pressure at all here, ha) but taking it easy has never been my forte.
After our first rather slow year on our allotment in 2019, we’ve just moved to a new (and slightly drier) plot and I am just so excited to get growing on it (the fruit has already gone in). I discovered a love of making jams and jellies last year (hence the gooseberries as I adore gooseberry and mint jelly) and growing our own is just ridiculously satisfying. Pulling a jar of jam, chutney or jelly out of the cupboard in the dead of winter when the last has finished is the best feeling rather than heading for the supermarket. Anything we don’t have to buy from a supermarket is a big plus in our book.
Iām most looking forward to the sun! Sunflowers š» and trying out some new red pepper seeds with my little girl who has discovered she loves them!
I’m definitely looking forward to trying pumpkins or squashes this year. We got an allotment last year which has been abandoned for a long time so it’s taken time to get it under control enough to actually plant something; with a toddler that’s only recently turned 2 we haven’t had a lot of spare time. Our garden veg plot isn’t big enough for squashes so I’m very excited to plant some at the allotment.
Just got the keys to an allotment after a 3 year waiting list so excited about EVERYTHING. Sweet peas and chillis sown, lobelia and geraniums on the way. Most excited about reassembling our second-hand greenhouse and trying to train my grapevines up into the rafters! Love the insta, it’s been so helpful for knowing what to do (and when!) and for learning that so much is possible when you have the time and inclination! Many thanks!
Iām looking forward to growing as much as I can on my allotment to sustain us through the year. Iāve never had any success with brussel sprouts but am going to try again, Iād like to grow all my veg for Christmas dinner this year ššš±
I know it may seem boring to a lot of people, but im most excited to grow my delicious runner beans! Just imagining them now freshly harvested, steamed and a glob of butter…so rich
Anything and everything! We have an allotment this year so it’s all very exciting! Xx
These look beautiful Katie. I am most excited about growing cutting flowers this year. I have grown sun flowers and Spring bulbs but really would like more to bring into the house. Keeping my fingers crossed!
First year on allotment. My 3 year old is most excited about broccoli so I canāt wait to see her face when we harvest first crop.
Looking forward to hopefully growing some colourful and scented flowers to attract wildlife and also some fruut and vegetables such as, strawberries, tomatoes, carrots, potatoes etc. You don’t need much room either, we grow in pots mostly.
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Hi Katie…Such a wonderful giveaway…Firstly, good luck with you and your fathers new allotment together project~ thats actually a really good idea…I wish I lived closer to my father because this would be something id love to do with him…you’ll be learning so much fom eachother, helping each other and great company for when you’re there together with a nice cup of tea!.
Your blog and insta feed is so inspiring!…I have a hill top garden on three levels…but one part of the hill is paved and I keep all my veggies there and flower pots as its a real sun trap!…I’m learning each and every year. And not everything is always so successful, but in a way its all a learning curve…and i love the excitement when things go to plan.
I want more of a wild life garden this Spring/ Summer and hoping to dig a little pond too…(Though in the walled part of the garden i’ve had a toad in a little shallow lid with rain water bathing before…it really did make me smile.
I’m hoping to grow more types of Cosmos, dahlias and lots of herbs too as well as the veggies…Its exciting to see what will appear from the seedlings. Last year i made two flower beds from an old chest of draws. love recycling where i can.
Thanks for always inspiring me,
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I am looking forward to growing lots of plants this year – sweet peas (my all time favourites!), antirrhinum, marigolds. I am most looking forward to growing a selection of bird, bee, butterfly and bat friendly wildflowers!
Iām looking forward to starting the school garden where I work. I love growing fruit and veg in my allotment and hope to inspire a few young minds. Particularly hopeful for pumpkins and squashes.
We have finally got the call to let us know we have reached the top of the waiting list for an allotment after 9 years of waiting! We get our keys to the plot next week and we are thrilled to be growing anything, but mostly some lovely berries for the summer and pumpkins later in the year. Thanks!
Now got two allotment plots so apart from the standard veg, I’m most excited to be adding in a lot more flowers for cutting this year, new rose bushes, more dahlias and a lot of flowers from seed for cutting and wildlife
Peas and broad beans already on their way in North East Scotland. Feeling very proud of lavender cuttings repotted at the weekend – good roots coming š Also two successful Escallonia cuttings! Loving it all š„°
I’m exited to be growing beetroot again as I’m growing multiple varieties this year including a white one I’ve never grown before. Also I’m creating new strawberry and herb beds. Lots to look forward to!