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Allotment Adventures: The Mud and Rain

Posted on February 14, 2018 by nicdempsey

It rained more or less continuously on Saturday, it wasn’t really heavy rain just drizzle. The raised beds arrived on Friday and on Saturday morning, Ma and I walked them round. We had high hopes for the work we were … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: Fairweather Allotmenting

Posted on February 7, 2018 by nicdempsey

I had high hopes that this weekend would be the weekend that we really got to grips with the allotment work. But the rain the day before and the wind on Sunday were not fun. I’d been on a 3 … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: It’s raining, it’s pouring

Posted on January 23, 2018 by nicdempsey

It rained for most of the weekend. So we went to the plot to check damage and re-up the bird feeders. Then we planned. We worked out want we want to grow and then went through all the seeds we … Continue reading →

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Soup

Posted on January 18, 2018 by nicdempsey

For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been eating soup for lunch. Soup is a perfect meal planning staple, when I was starting to meal plan, part of my process was to make a vegetable soup using all the vegetables … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: Things are looking up

Posted on January 17, 2018 by nicdempsey

I did a very quick trip the the plot at the weekend to collect some food, I took leeks, chard, kale, black radishes and parlsey, sage and rosemary.Which is not bad for January and much better than last year but … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: September

Posted on September 6, 2017 by nicdempsey

The food production on the plot is slowing down but not so you’d notice from the weekly produce shots.Courgettes, crookneck squash, a patty pan, salad, chard (the self seeded one next to the flowers at the top of the plot), … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: Tomatoes…

Posted on August 30, 2017 by nicdempsey

This week we picked the last of the french beans. Said goodbye to some tomato plants and collected about 2 kilos of tomatoes. Some of the broccoli had flowered so we cut the rest and took the netting down. We’ll … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: Usual work

Posted on August 23, 2017 by nicdempsey

We had a really good Saturday this week and were on the plot for a good long while but there is still so much work to do.We finally have patty pans! We harvested most of the green beans (1.774kg), there … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: State of the Plot

Posted on August 16, 2017 by nicdempsey

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 →

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Allotment Adventures: Gluts

Posted on August 2, 2017 by nicdempsey

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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