Category Archives: Gardening

RHS Hampton Court

Posted on July 8, 2025 by nicdempsey

On Friday, Sue and I went to the RHS Garden Festival at Hampton Court. I had never been before so didn’t really know what to expect. It was clear that the really warm weather earlier in the week had been … Continue reading →

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Growing Orchids in Water

Posted on November 12, 2024 by nicdempsey

A couple of years ago, Ma bought me an orchid for my birthday, I’ve managed to keep it alive so far but this summer I’ve been rubbish at watering my house plants and the orchid needed repotting. I saw a thing … Continue reading →

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Monday Miscellany: Another Year Around the Sun

Posted on August 12, 2024 by nicdempsey

Happy Monday! My birthday week off, didn’t go quite to plan! I’ve officially been to my mum’s GP practice more this year than I’ve been to my own! Ma will probably read this and feel bad, but she shouldn’t, but … Continue reading →

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Back on the Bokashi

Posted on April 16, 2024 by nicdempsey

I failed at Bokashi last year. I came back to a new kitchen and there was no good place to put the bokashi bins and one of the bins started leaking and I just gave up. It was easy to … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: A change of plan

Posted on July 22, 2020 by nicdempsey

Last Saturday, during an epic watering session of the plot (mostly of the squash!) Ma turned around and said we should put an area to sit in next to the rose garden and pond. That part of the plot gets … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: Structure

Posted on January 29, 2020 by nicdempsey

This week we got the plot. You can tell that people are beginning to think about Spring because there are more people on site, it’s also because the committee did unofficial site inspections before Christmas and spoke to the plot … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: No work this week

Posted on January 22, 2020 by nicdempsey

This weekend was the best weather we’ve had in ages, but we didn’t work on the plot due to Ma’s head injury and having visitors. I did get the bird feeders filled up but that’s about it!

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Allotment Adventures: Halfway there

Posted on January 15, 2020 by nicdempsey

I think we surprised ourselves this weekend. We have both the larger squash beds built and got the paths in. I dug the area over, Ma did so much weeding and then because there was wood chip (ex Christmas trees) … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: A Tidy Up

Posted on July 24, 2019 by nicdempsey

I love to read Allan Jenkins’ Sunday column in the Observer about his allotment. This week, in one of the comments, someone talks about this time of year and the garden’s descent into chaos. While the plot isn’t actually in … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: Dreaming for Next Year

Posted on February 13, 2019 by nicdempsey

I didn’t get to the plot last weekend, Ma and I went to the allotment the weekend before last. We dug up leeks for lunch (leek, anchovy and goats cheese tart), we refilled the bird feeders and we chatted to … Continue reading →

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