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Tag Archives: allotment
Allotment Adventures: State of the Plot
We’ve come a long way, this was the plot in August last year.This year there is more of everything and it’s much tidier. So let’s have a chat about what work we did on the plot over the last couple … Continue reading
Allotment Adventures: Gluts
This week’s glut is plums. Last week, I went to do the watering and came home with produce, after washing and de-stoning and getting rid of any with creatures, I had 2.3kgs of plums. We’re not doing badly with cucumbers … Continue reading
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Tagged allotment, allotment adventures, beetroot, carrots, courgettes, crookneck squash, cucumbers, feeding yourself, french beans, grow your own, grow your own food, herbs, I grew this, kitchen garden, plums, salad, spinach, spring onions, tomatoes, winter squash
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Allotment Adventures: Cut your losses
This was the week I decided that it was ok to stop doing something if it wasn’t doing well. That thing was the boston squash. I had put what I thought was 2 baby blue hubbards in the box to … Continue reading
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Tagged allotment, allotment adventures, beetroot, carrots, chard, crookneck squash, cucumbers, feeding yourself, french beans, grow your own, grow your own food, herbs, I grew this, kitchen garden, planting for autumn, plums, salad, spinach, spring onions, tarragon, tomatoes, winter squash
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Allotment Adventures: Harvest
After the excitement of the Open Day, this week it was time to get back to work, those of you following along will remember that last week, I had a big long list of stuff to do. Here is is … Continue reading
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Tagged allotment, allotment adventures, coriander, courgettes, crookneck squash, crops, cucumbers, french beans, future food, grow your own, grow your own food, harvest, mint, new potatoes, raspberries, salad, spinach, tomatoes, winter squash
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How I Grow: Beds
This year, the allotment site was entered into the Ealing in Bloom competition, we had a first visit in June and I’m told that the judges were disappointed that more of our individual allotments weren’t entered into the competition. There … Continue reading
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Tagged allotment, allotment layout, allotment planning, how I grow, why I use beds
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Allotment Adventures: Award Winner
Last week was a bit of wash out on the allotment front, I was ill from Tuesday to Thursday so didn’t get to the plot, thank goodness that the weather was colder and there was rain, otherwise my poor plants … Continue reading
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Tagged all the tomatoes, allotment, allotment adventures, brassicas, courgette glut so soon, courgettes, crookneck squash, day lily, english lavender, herbs, holly hocks, lavender, open day, peas, pigeons, prettiest plot, salad, spinach, strawberry bed, tarragon, tomatoes, too many tomatoes, work to do
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