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Allotment Adventures: Summer Exhaustion and Autumn Planning

Posted on September 2, 2020 by nicdempsey

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 →

Posted in allotment | 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 | Leave a comment

Allotment Adventures: Three years later and it’s looking pretty good…

Posted on May 8, 2019 by nicdempsey

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 →

Posted in allotment | 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 | 1 Comment

Allotment Adventures: Achievement

Posted on September 13, 2017 by nicdempsey

We didn’t spend much time at the plot this weekend, I collected tomatoes on Wednesday and we had leeks, kale, tomatoes, summer squash and some spring onions and carrots at the at the weekend but we were only on the … Continue reading →

Posted in allotment | Tagged afgan poppies, allotment adventures, amish paste, amish paste tomatatoes, anemones, baby blue hubbard, basil, beetroot, black russian, boothbys blond cucumbers, borage, boston squash, broad beans, broccoli, butternut squash, california poppies, carrots, chard, chives, coriander, cosmos, courgettes, crookneck, cucumbers, dill, flowers, freesias, french beans, gardener's delight, garlic, grape hyacinth, herbs, jen's tangerine cherry, kale, lavender, lemon verbena, Love Lies Bleeding, marigolds, mint, moneymaker, Nasturtiums, onions, oregano, parsley, patty pans, peas, plums, potates, radishes, raspberries, red cherry, rhubarb, rosemary, russian tarragon, sage, salad leaves, spinach, spring onions, stock, strawberries, summer squash, sweet peas, sweet peppers, thyme, tomatoes, what we've grown, winter squash | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in allotment | Tagged allotment, allotment adventures, beetroot, carrots, courgettes, crookneck squash, cucumbers, feeding yourself, french beans, grow your own, grow your own food, herbs, I grew this, kitchen garden, plums, salad, spinach, spring onions, tomatoes, winter squash | Leave a comment

Allotment Adventures: Cut your losses

Posted on July 26, 2017 by nicdempsey

This was the week I decided that it was ok to stop doing something if it wasn’t doing well. That thing was the boston squash. I had put what I thought was 2 baby blue hubbards in the box to … Continue reading →

Posted in allotment, Food, Gardening | Tagged allotment, allotment adventures, beetroot, carrots, chard, crookneck squash, cucumbers, feeding yourself, french beans, grow your own, grow your own food, herbs, I grew this, kitchen garden, planting for autumn, plums, salad, spinach, spring onions, tarragon, tomatoes, winter squash | Leave a comment

Allotment Adventures: Eight weeks later.

Posted on July 6, 2016 by nicdempsey

Saturday marked eight weeks of allotmenting. This is what it looked liked then.It looks quite different now. The weeds went haywire in between times I was very lucky because the allotment was given up, not abandoned, the weeds were never completely … Continue reading →

Posted in allotment | Tagged 2016, afgan poppies, allotment, allotment adventures, Aubergines, beginner, california poppies, cherry tomatoes, coriander, courgettes, dill, eight weeks, french beans, gooseberries, herbs, July, July 2016, kitchen garden, pak choi, peas, raspberries, rhubarb, roma tomatoes, runner beans, salad, spring onions, sweet peas, urban plot | Leave a comment

Cous Cous

Posted on May 21, 2014 by nicdempsey

Over the last couple of weeks, there has been a big bowl of cous cous in the fridge, I eat it for lunch and dinner. There isn’t really a recipe for it but I cook the cous cous with chick … Continue reading →

Posted in Cooking | Tagged black olives, carrots, cous cous, feta, red onions, spring onions | 9 Comments

Top tip

Posted on January 17, 2012 by nicdempsey

Eternal spring onions. I can’t claim any credit for this one. It comes from Back to Her Roots. Cut them, put the bottoms in water and they just keep growing. Having them on the side ensures that I use them … Continue reading →

Posted in Food | Tagged spring onions, thrifty, top tips | Leave a comment

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Allotment Adventures: Summer Exhaustion and Autumn Planning

Allotment Adventures: Three years later and it’s looking pretty good…

Allotment Adventures: Achievement

Allotment Adventures: Gluts

Allotment Adventures: Cut your losses

Allotment Adventures: Eight weeks later.

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