Tag Archives: tomatoes

Cooking from the Plot: Courgette and Tomato Pasta Sauce

Posted on August 14, 2018 by nicdempsey

It’s August and at some point in August, you can guarantee there will be a post about how to use up a courgette. We got one on Tuesday and five on Saturday, which isn’t an excessive amount but they were … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: Visit from the family

Posted on August 8, 2018 by nicdempsey

It’s been so hot. So there has been a lot of watering! On Sunday, I had help from the nephews and my brother. Joe also ate all the ripe tomatoes and the allotment rang with Joe asking for more “Grandma … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: Breaking weather

Posted on August 1, 2018 by nicdempsey

Finally, the heatwave broke. On Friday, it finally got cooler. There was some rain too but Sunday was the day for rain in Ealing. We didn’t plan on doing a lot on the plot this week. Watering, feeding, picking produce.The … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: Too Darn Hot

Posted on July 25, 2018 by nicdempsey

The hot weather continues. I’m over it.. This week we headed to the plot without a huge amount of work to do. We started off by gathering produce, eight courgettes, five crookneck squash, three cucumbers, six beetroot, a massive bag … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: Some Rain

Posted on July 18, 2018 by nicdempsey

Last Friday night, there was actual rain, but it didn’t really seem to make a lot of difference to the plot, which still needed watering on Saturday morning. The plot is doing well right now, the tomato plants all have … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: The constant watering

Posted on July 12, 2018 by nicdempsey

This week I have been pushed for time, which is why this is going up late on a Thursday, rather than its traditional Wednesday amazing what you can do on a phone during the commute! We have still not had … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: Cucumber disaster

Posted on May 30, 2018 by nicdempsey

I planted 11 cucumbers plants last week, and at this point maybe one will survive, the others are dead, look at the bed of shrivelled, dead plants. The cucamelons are looking sick too! The tomato plants are doing a little … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: Planting out

Posted on May 23, 2018 by nicdempsey

This week we planted out all the things.The jury is out on how many will survive, the tomatoes and cucumbers look to be in a bad way right now. I have some spare plum tomatoes that can replace the dead … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: Everything is growing but mostly the weeds

Posted on May 16, 2018 by nicdempsey

This weekend was another solo weekend at the plot for me. I don’t know what the weather did where you are but on Saturday, it rained and rained, so I stayed indoors and on Sunday after my regular dog walking … 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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