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This morning before I left for work I noticed that my cabbage and cauliflower seeds had germinated - 5 days after sowing and being placed on the kitchen windowsill - came home tonight to find 100% germination - well chuffed but concerned about this turn of speed - may have to house 40 seedlings for longer than anticipated - we had snow for the first time this year today
Rat

Today I managed to go down the greehouse before going to work at 07:00 !!
Yaaay for light mornings

You lucky...............
It's still dark up here until at least eight o'clock i the morning, though I can get half an hour i the evening if I knock off sharpish and floor the van on the way home !
Rat

Hmmm - i did a forage in the polytunnel in the dark with a torch at 5.30 looking for some mint for dinner. At some point I WILL have more daylight than the rest of you, BUT NOT YET!

I didn't manage to get out into the garden today - very dissapointed. Tommorrow a fellow GYO'er is coming to meet my chickens as they are interested in keeping them too. It will be great to meet up with like minded fellow forumers.

Here's to a better day tommorrow!

Caught up a little with my seed sowing. I needed to sow the flowers I will be using for my hanging baskets and front garden flowerbeds.
Sowing vegetable seeds was up to date already.
Tonight I will sort through the rest of my seed packets and file them in date sowing order.

well, today I cleared lots of debris out of the flower beds, and looked around and realised how much else there was to do.... but I;'ve now got bulbs in pots in the cold frame, and also perenials from woolies. next task is to sow some salad seeds - first time ever!!! and put them in the cold frame and see if we get anywhere.

Yesterday I started into the cutting and splitting of 28 tonnes of timber I have acquirred - filled 9 tattie boxes and brought 1 1/2 tonnes home. Spent this morning stackig them in my two log stores.
Planted out some foxgloves that I started last year in my greenhouse, also two hebes that I grew from cuttings - Hebe Green Globe and Hebe Caledonii.
Rat

shifted a raised bed and made another, giving me 4.. considered actually sowing some seeds vbut never got round to it

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I moved two big barrels to different areas in the gardn, took the net off my rhubarb and the daffodils. Took out soil from an area that has had coral spot on the patio and filled it in with brick to make patio wider, and then placed a vine in a tub there. Moved water butts to new areas (with a lot of help) and took out hollyhocks, lupins and other plants from cold frame.

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The first good weekend of weather - wheeled two barrow loads of cow manure from next door, dug over the polytunnel beds and composted with own compost (taken two years to compost!), built runner bean box, transplanted herbs, tidied up strawberries, dug over all veg plot beds (outside) and reoganised into four beds rather than three for better rotation, moved compost bin and designed new fencing system (new dog not as trainable as we thought). Phew .....

Sadly watched French neighbour stuffing hens from large run around area into fairly small hen houseur plans for free rangers have taken a blow. I emptied all the water saving vessels around the house into the tubs. Potatoes chitting well. Hanging basket tomato seedlings well on the way. I've filled a trench with farmyard manure for the raspberries and other fruit bushes as the soil is at the top end of alkaline scale. Can't wait to shed the business suit.
Sue.

I had a break from veg and sowed 9 pots of cactus seeds instead

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ntg

Never be afraid to try something new.
Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark.
A large group of professionals built the Titanic

http://grief-encounters.blogspot.com/

I too thought I better catch up on some of my flower beds, so weeded one large bed, and moved and replanted some Heuchera, Ophiopogon and Sedum. Discovered more bindweed roots trying to sneak in from the Lone Star State next door - my neighbour is a preacher from Texas - he's just invested in a greenhouse so maybe the hours he has spent watching me in my garden have got to him as he's never been horticulturally inclined before.
Rat

horticulturally inclined - is that grdening on a slope

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ntg

Never be afraid to try something new.
Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark.
A large group of professionals built the Titanic

http://grief-encounters.blogspot.com/

Maybe you should give him some rhubarb schnapps???

I decided today was the day to finally get going at the allotment. 1st major job was to finish the concrete base for my 2nd greenhouse. I also needed to do a little weeding, cold frame (made from old sash windows) needed some re-puttying, and the usual bits and bobs that manage to steal your time.
After 3/4 of an hour working in the rain it finally stopped, and the hailstones started. I was now easy pray for my neighbour who was making a brew. His shed is like a small bungalow and fitted out quite nicely, kitchen cupboards, large gas camping stove, comfy chairs.....only slight shed envy from my part. Is it me or does tea always taste better outdoors?
Half hour later, gave up and went home....my allotment still waiting for the first onslaught of the year!

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Geordie

Te audire non possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure

The sun is shining so I'm off up the allotment as I've got days holiday to fetch some veg for special tea as it's my good ladies birthday .... I can creep with the best

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ntg

Never be afraid to try something new.
Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark.
A large group of professionals built the Titanic

http://grief-encounters.blogspot.com/

This weekend I sowed the first of the seed I got this week via e-bay - peas Feltham First and Meteor. I've sown them outdoors, though don't know how they'll survive a) the wildlife (mice, rabbits, pheasants) and b) the current temperatures - though the packets say they're hardy. Still, I might also sow some indoors today to make sure!

Hardy