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Tag Archives: rhubarb
Allotment Adventures: Award Winner!
As I mentioned on Monday, Ma and I won an award at the Open Day for basically being nice and wanting to help our allotment neighbour as much as we can.Taking on the plot has had so many benefits, for … Continue reading →
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Tagged allotment adventures, ammi visnaga, basil, beetroot, courgettes, gooseberries, grow your own, July, lavender, lettuce, london plot, look what I grew, most neighbourly, no-dig, pinks, plant rescue, plot life, potatoes, produce, raised beds, raspberries, rhubarb, salad, summer, tomatoes, weeding, winter squash
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Allotment Adventures: Three years later and it’s looking pretty good…
The joy of a bank holiday is that we got two trips to the plot this weekend. Apparently, it’s been the coldest May bank holiday on record and I can believe it, it’s hard to imagine that Easter was the … Continue reading →
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Tagged allotment adventures, autumn raspberries, beetroot, blueberries, broad beans, burgess buttercup, butternut squash, carrots, compost, courgettes, crookneck squash, flowers, garlic, georgia candy roaster, gooseberries, grow some food, grow your own, grow your own food, herbs, kale, kitchen garden, leeks, lemon verbena, may, May 2019, Northfields Allotments, oregano, plums, rhubarb, rosemary, sage, salad leaves, sowing, spring, spring onions, summer raspberries, sweetpeas, thyme, tomatoes, uchiki kuri, weeding, winter squash
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Too much rhubarb? Make gin
This weekend I started some rhubarb gin. I had 777g of washed, chopped rhubarb (this actually isn’t from my plants, it’s from Dionne’s massive plants!), I added 350g of sugar and then covered with 900ml gin*.It’s in a dark cupboard, … Continue reading →
Allotment Adventures: Winter returns
Ma and I went to the plot on Sunday and it was so cold. Despite that, things were happening…Cornflowers…Carrots and radishesRaspberriesPlums The warm and then wet weather meant that the grass had gone nuts and needed cutting, so that was … Continue reading →
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Allotment Adventures: The War on Raspberries
It was hot this week, and everything in the allotment decided to pop up, the raspberries especially. So Ma and I spent a good hour digging the ones that weren’t where we wanted them to be..We also watered everything. The … Continue reading →
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Allotment Adventures: Ready to grow
The weather is getting everyone down, my lovely allotment neighbour Joe, says that he thinks it’s been the worse spring he can remember since he had the plot and he’s had the plot as long as I’ve been alive! We … Continue reading →
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Allotment Adventures: It’s raining, it’s pouring
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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Tagged afgan poppies, allotment, allotment adventures, anemones, basil, beans, beetroot, borage, borlotti beans, californian poppies, carrots, chard, chives, coriander, cornflowers, courgettes, cucamelons, cucumbers, day lily, dill, flowers, freesias, french beans, Gardening, gooseberries, grape hyacinth, grow your own, grow your own food, gypsohylla, iris, kale, lavender, leeks, lemon verbena, marigolds, oregano, parsley, patty pans, peas, peppers, plans for 2018, plums, potatoes, radishes, raspberries, rhubarb, rosemary, sage, salad, stock, summer squash, sweet peas, sweetcorn, tarragon, thyme, tomatoes, what I want to grow, winter squash
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