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Allotment Adventures: Sometimes I Just Complicate Everything

Posted on July 2, 2025 by nicdempsey

I have more plants. So the key job last week was getting them in the ground. However, I live in London which for the last few days has been in a heatwave. If you don’t live here, I promise that … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: Five more beds

Posted on June 18, 2025 by nicdempsey

This season of gardening is all about small gains. I work hard but I never get everything I planned to get done, done. So let’s start with what I did at the weekend. I really wanted to get the arches … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: Quick Visits

Posted on May 21, 2025 by nicdempsey

Here’s my confession, I never have it together everywhere, I can do being social, having a tidy well run home, I can have a really switched on work life, I can have a tidy well run allotment, I can ace … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: Wild

Posted on August 2, 2023 by nicdempsey

While I don’t want a repeat of last year’s heatwave and drought, British weather this year has gone from one extreme to another, the weather over the last couple of weeks has been miserable. Rain has consistently stopped play this … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: Time is moving on

Posted on June 7, 2023 by nicdempsey

Ma and I have a couple of perennial arguments about the plot. One is about what I allow to self seed in paths, there’s another about how many plants it’s possible to fit on the plot and my plant buying … Continue reading →

Posted in allotment | Tagged 2023, allotment, allotment adventures, aubergine, carrots, cauliflower, drying beans, fennel, french beans, greek basil, grow something, grow your own, irises, june, June 2023, kale, kitchen garden, london plot, Northfields Allotments, peppers, strawberries, tomatoes, urban plot, zinnias | 1 Comment

Allotment Adventures: Alas poor tomatoes, we knew you well

Posted on August 18, 2021 by nicdempsey

We’re at that weird point in the year when we should be overloaded with summer product and the autumn leaves are starting to come in. We still haven’t had a summer squash and I fear that I’m hoping in vain … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: Summer Exhaustion and Autumn Planning

Posted on September 2, 2020 by nicdempsey

There hasn’t been an update for two weeks and the harvests have been crazy… So much food! This weekend we said goodbye to the french beans, the wind did for the frame and so we pulled them up. Last weekend … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: Winter Squash Part One

Posted on August 19, 2020 by nicdempsey

It was quite a week for harvest! We had 17 winter squash, the first french beans, our first proper cauliflower, two patty pans, two crookneck, eight cukes (plus two that are yellow and not for eating, I don’t know how … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: August is the month

Posted on August 12, 2020 by nicdempsey

Confession time, this has not been my best allotment year. The adjustment to the bigger plot, three months without my hardworking sidekick (Jillian, Destroyer of all Weeds) was tough just at the point that I should have been thinking about … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: Slow

Posted on July 15, 2020 by nicdempsey

Posted in allotment | Tagged 2020, allotment, allotment adventures, alyssum, aramanth, autumn plans, autumn raspberries, borage, campanula, carrots, centaurea montana, courgette, crocosmia, crooknecks, cucumbers, dianthus, eryngium planum, flowers, french beans, garden areas, giant snowdrops, grow your own, July, July 2020, lavender, lemon thyme, oregano, pond, raised beds, red mountain spinach, rose garden, roses, sage, shasta daisy, sisyrinchium, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, verbena bonariesis, white borage, winter squash | Leave a comment