Tag Archives: grow your own

Allotment Adventures: All by myself

Posted on April 18, 2018 by nicdempsey

This week, I was abandoned by the weeder-in-chief, who seems to think she should have a social life. I don’t know, parents nowadays.. (although she spent my childhood telling us that she “was put on this earth to me, not … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: Paint the Shed Grey!

Posted on March 28, 2018 by nicdempsey

This week’s allotment post will actually feature work done on the allotment! The weather gods were smiling on London and we had a clear, warmish day on Sunday. The rhubarb is finally starting to come up, it’s been on the … Continue reading →

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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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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: 2018

Posted on January 10, 2018 by nicdempsey

It’s January and I’m desperate for time to hurry up and Spring to spring so I can get back to growing things. However, last year I started sowing too early, so this year I’m holding my nerve and not sowing … 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 →