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Tag Archives: french beans
Allotment Adventures: Alas poor tomatoes, we knew you well
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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Tagged 2021, allotment, allotment adventures, allotment life, august, August 2021, blight, carrots, chard, ealing dean allotments, french beans, green tomatoes, grow some food, grow your own food, kale, kitchen garden, Northfields Allotments, plums, raised beds, tomatoes, urban plot
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Allotment Adventures: Summer Exhaustion and Autumn Planning
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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Tagged 2020, allotment, autumn planning, black radishes, cabbages, carrots, cauliflowers, chard, courgettes, crookneck squash, cucumbers, flowers, french beans, harvest, japanese greens, kale, leeks, mustards, oriental leaves, pak choi, patty pans, raspberries, September, September 2020, spring onions, tomatoes, winter lettuces
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Allotment Adventures: Winter Squash Part One
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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Tagged allotment, allotment adventures, august, August 2020, basil, blueberries, carrots, cauliflower, city plot, crookneck squash, cucumbers, french beans, grow your own, grow your own food, kale, london plot, patty pans, raspberries, tomatoes, urban garden, urban gardening, verbena, winter squash
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Allotment Adventures: August is the month
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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Tagged allotment, allotment adventures, august, August 2020, autumn sowing, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, chard, city plot, courgettes, crookneck squash, cucumbers, flowers, french beans, gardens, grow some food, grow your own, kale, leeks, london plot, Northfields Allotments, patty pans, raised beds, urban gardening, winter crops, winter squash, woodchip
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Allotment Adventures: Slow
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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
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Allotment Adventures: Nearly there
We’re nearly at the end of May, it’s been 10 weeks since the Weeder-in-Chief has been on the plot and I’m struggling to get it all done, there’s always something that doesn’t get finished because I’m sidetracked by weeding. The … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, allotment, allotment adventures, courgettes, crookneck squash, cucumbers, french beans, may, may 2020, sweet potatoes, sweetcorn, tomatoes, winter squash
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Allotment Adventures: Planting out….
Two days on the plot, half the list done. We did loads but there is so much more to do, isn’t there always….First up say hello to the summer squash! This is on Joe’s plot. Three yellow courgettes, four green … Continue reading
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Tagged allotment, allotment adventures, burgess buttercup, butternut squash, celery, chard, cour di bue, french beans, georgia candy roaster, marmande, peas, red pear, san marzano, summer planting, summer squash, sweet peas, tomatoes, uchiki kuri, winter squash, yellow delight
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Allotment Adventures: Seedlings
We’re at the point in the allotment year, when I’m either worrying about seedlings, either they’re leggy and indoors or maybe dying and outside. Either way I always feel that I’ve got it wrong and it always works out. I’m … Continue reading
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Tagged allotment, allotment adventures, beetroot, broad beans, courgettes, cucumber, french beans, kale, may, peas, potatoes, raspberries, seedlings, spring, sweetcorn, things to do, tomatoes
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Allotment Adventures: Pests
This week in allotment adventures the broad beans have blackfly. I can cope with having to cover all the beds because otherwise the foxes dig them up, I can more or less handle the foxes trying to treat my raised … Continue reading
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Tagged allotment adventures, ants, beetroot, blackfly, broad beans, carrots, chard, english lavender, french beans, gooseberries, may, peas, potatoes, rain, salad, spring, sweet peas, tasklist, the state of the plot
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Allotment Adventures: The constant watering
This week I have been pushed for time, which is why this is going up late on a Thursday, rather than its traditional Wednesday amazing what you can do on a phone during the commute! We have still not had … Continue reading
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