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Mini propagators crammed into a corner of my kitchen and waiting for the first sowing of the year!



I'll *try* and be sensible and not plant too much too soon

P.S. - please excuse the syrup fetish!

Wow - looks like a proper factory line! Have you somewhere for them to go when they've grown up a bit? Thats the tricky bit we found when starting stuff early. Last year we walked trays full of seedlings down and up to and from the unheated greenhouse every day - the extra light really made a difference, but we filled the kitchen table every night!


Oh and make sure you don't get the shelves top heavy or wobbly, or there could be a disaster.

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Manda.

"Wouldn't it be nice
For maybe an hour
To not have a care."

The 'when they're a bit bigger' will be the crunch time! I have a decent sized unheated greenhouse and a large kitchen table, so hopefully I can juggle things!

How do you open the microwave door then Seahorse???

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My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

Are you trying to grow a wig(wrong type of syrup)

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I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
W. C. Fields

Snadger - the microwave *just* opens far enough!

BW, I rather like the thought of growing a wig. Not sure green hair would suit me though

Serious syrup monkey on your back eh Seahorse?

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It takes more oil than vinegar to make a good salad dressing.

vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated Sept 7th 2008

Will you lot please stop going on about syrup

As if it isn't enough that I have to look at Claires 4 tins. Never mind syrup fettish, I've got withdrawal symptoms - can't get it here easily

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A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot! (Thomas Edward Brown)

Haven't had a golden syrup sandwich since I was a kid. Are they still as good?

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Manda.

"Wouldn't it be nice
For maybe an hour
To not have a care."

That's not all the syrup I have either! I do use quite a lot in baking but I also have a garden planting idea that involves printed cans, so was unable to resist the Lyle's anniversary tins!

I've never had it in a sandwich - sounds very decadent!

Planted quite a bit this morning but I did manage to be relatively restrained and just plant a very few of each thing

Lol! Hardly, they were often the only ingredients left in the pantry, when we fed up with ketchup sandwiches!

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Manda.

"Wouldn't it be nice
For maybe an hour
To not have a care."

Nooooo, not ketchup sandwiches too, I love them as well. Fortunately we can get ketchup here

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A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot! (Thomas Edward Brown)

Has to be HP sarnies for me!

Blimey Seahorse, you're well armed with the right equipments and lots of them! There's something wrong with me but I hate buying things so I collect lots of punnets (deepest possible and they usually have drainage holes) as my seed tray and use my kitchen window sill as growing space. I once asked my OH to make me a shelf half way up that window but he said, No way! Okay I hate the thought of walking up to my new greenhouse in the cold as it's not that close enough to the house (I can suffer from frozen hand syndrome).

That shelf you got there looks like something I will definitely need eventually whether I like it or not, so where did you get that and how much does it cost? I'm thinking of looking at Ikea (or similar) basic shelf in case they're any cheaper.

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Food for Free

Salad cream sarnies here

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Happy Gardening,
Shirley

http://www.honeyjukes.co.uk

The shelf is greenhouse staging from Wilko. It's not huge but there's plenty of room for eight good sized seed trays and it was only £9.99. I'll move it out to the g/h once it's a bit warmer.

You've made me wonder if I could put the whole thing on the kitchen worktop in front of the window now... off to investigate!!!

Thanks it's the one I thought was from Wilko remembering what an excellent price it was. No doubt they'll be bringing in the gardening stuffs now that Christmassy stocks gotta go.

You can also use other sunny-side window using lower table than an average height kitchen worktop but for us, it blocks the view of our back garden. On the window sill, I still have to watch out for them as they tend to get leggy so I transfer them to the outer window sill where I can still keep an eye on them from the kitchen obviously now is too cold.

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I had a friend who used to bring treacle(Golden Syrup) and banana sarnies to work for his bait every day!
When asked "Why treacle and banana?" he replied " Well you know how it is when you eat a banana sarnie and the banana shoots out the side?...................not so with a treacle and banana sarnie as the treacle glues it in!"

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My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

I love golden syrup on a home-made bread crust - preferably while said crust is still warm. Now THAT's decadent - which should mean havng only 10 remaining teeth?

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It takes more oil than vinegar to make a good salad dressing.

vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated Sept 7th 2008

Yup! Bought it yesterday! Got a couple of 5m long polytunnel/cloches for £4.99 each as well

Golden syrup on warm toast, topped with clotted cream (known in Devon as thunder and lightning)