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Embracing Winter Wildlife on Your Allotment

By Alex White
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Embracing Winter Wildlife on Your Allotment: A Bounty of Benefits

Winter may seem like a time when nature retreats into hibernation, but for allotment enthusiasts, it's an opportunity to foster a haven for wildlife. As temperatures drop and gardens become dormant, your allotment can play a crucial role in supporting and nourishing local fauna. Let's explore the myriad benefits of looking after wildlife on your allotment during the winter months.

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Life In The Trenches

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How to Change Plot Size or Dimensions

By Richard Lewis
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VegPlotter's garden planner lets you plan a garden layout of anysize

VegPlotter's garden planning software lets you plan out a garden or any size and shape. Once you've created a new garden plot you can change the dimensions of the plan in the right-hand plot settings menu...

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How to share your garden plan with others

By Richard Lewis
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Sharing your garden plans with others online is a great way to tap in to the weather of gardening experience and knowledge out there.

One of the great things about VegPlotter is that it allows you to try out ideas before committing them to the garden. For example, you can try out layouts, planting schedules, or both with the garden planner. VegPlotter lets you plot them out beforehand and change your mind before setting foot in the garden.

One extension of this is the ability to share your plans with others. Letting others fully explore your layout and planting schedules month by month is a great way to gain from their experience. There are vast gardening communities out there, and tapping into and contributing to their wisdom is a great way to build up your knowledge.

This quick guide will show you three ways of sharing your plans with others.

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How to set your preferred unit of measure and enter measurements in VegPlotter?

By Richard Lewis
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VegPlotter's free garden planner is very fliexible with the units of measure it accepts and can display.

When you first launch VegPlotter it will default to use Metres (or Meters if you're outside the UK). But this is not hardcoded and you can change this to any of the following measurements, including those weird and wonderful ones used by allotment societies and old-timer gardeners and surveyors (pole, perch and rod etc).

To change your preferred unit of measure...

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