Tag Archives: raised beds

Allotment Adventures: Calm Before the Storm

Posted on February 12, 2020 by nicdempsey

We are so close. Last Wednesday, Ma did a good three hours of weeding and then did another three hours on Saturday. The area that has no beds on it, is now weed free, it’s pretty impressive.On Wednesday, I trimmed … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: Everything’s Coming Up Roses

Posted on February 5, 2020 by nicdempsey

There was lots of moving plants this week. We have a rose garden in embryo stage, a moved boysenberry and a fully weeded squash bed. We also sorted out the chard bed and took out the cauliflowers. All typed out … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: Structure

Posted on January 29, 2020 by nicdempsey

This week we got the plot. You can tell that people are beginning to think about Spring because there are more people on site, it’s also because the committee did unofficial site inspections before Christmas and spoke to the plot … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: Halfway there

Posted on January 15, 2020 by nicdempsey

I think we surprised ourselves this weekend. We have both the larger squash beds built and got the paths in. I dug the area over, Ma did so much weeding and then because there was wood chip (ex Christmas trees) … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: Winter Work

Posted on January 8, 2020 by nicdempsey

Winter on the plot is the time for working on the things you don’t get around to in the spring and summer. There isn’t a lot growing (we have kale, chard, leeks and overwintering broad beans and cauliflowers) but there … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: Moving Compost

Posted on November 27, 2019 by nicdempsey

We have so much work to do to join the old and the new halves of the plot together but we have made inroads into the work. This weekend we moved the compost dalek on the old half to the … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: The Compost Area

Posted on November 13, 2019 by nicdempsey

After a week off, we finally started to think about our plot extension, Joe has taken what he wanted and it’s now all ours, this is the view from the back of the plot. There is lots of work to … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: Autumn Work

Posted on October 23, 2019 by nicdempsey

We got to the plot on Sunday and found it pretty unchanged despite our neglect of it last week. There is a temptation in the autumn, as the plot calms down to be done with allotment work, I know that … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: The corn is as high as an elephant’s eye

Posted on August 28, 2019 by nicdempsey

The temperatures in London went stupidly hot last week and we had 30C and over for a couple of days so just as allotmenters started to prepare themselves for an early autumn, it was summer again. This is good as … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: Courgettes and rain and tidying the shed

Posted on July 31, 2019 by nicdempsey

So the shed is finally tidy. We have new shelves (thanks Kathy and Adam!) and new drawers (Wilko’s finest!) and thanks to lots of tidying, it’s looking tidier. Ma still thinks there is too much stuff but I think we … Continue reading →

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