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23-05-2007, 04:57 PM
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 Today I planted three of my tomatoes(two san marzano and one auriga - starting to flower) into their final pots and into one of the big greenhouses, hopefully the vaseline around the pots will help to keep off the slugs. Sowed some more pak choi (to replace the ones eaten by the slugs). Transplanted my igloo caulis from a seed tray into troughs till they are big enough to go into their final bed. Sowed some more leeks (mini veg). Planted into containers some parsnips germinated by the paper towel method in the airing cupboard (going to see how these planted straight out do against the ones I have in root trainers (all germinated the same way). Hope to get some more carrots in tomorrow and thin out my beetroot and snowball turnips. Sweetcorn is doing well and should be in place in about three weeks. Cucumbers are coming along slowly and the courgettes, runner beans and french beans are doing well.      |
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23-05-2007, 05:46 PM
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| Well I'm in for the day so it's easy to report...I weeded...the dreaded job but I do it every day while I inspect the garden for critter damage, I checked all the plants that I added yesterday and I picked radishes and a huge tub of spinach...one of my favorite veggies so it is nice that it is doing so good...I dug some bare spots and planted some grass seed...Molly our world's smartest dog loves to romp and dirties the porch so I am trying to fill bare spots with grass...I chopped all the trimmings and gathered the compost bin from the kitchen and put it all in the composter...love all that good compost...I have washed everything an put it away...now I gotta go wash me...Have a good gardening day all. |
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23-05-2007, 06:12 PM
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| I planted out the celery - first time I've ever grown it so a bit of an adventure. And Hip, hip, horray! the first asparagus spike has finally appeared in the new asparagus bed! Now I just need the other nine plants to decide to grow! |
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23-05-2007, 07:41 PM
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| Tan out of rootrainers and flowerpots so had to improvise with paper, string and cellotape. Hopefully they will last until my runnerbeans have sprouted. I refuse to buy any more pots so am chopping up milk cartons etc. At least i'm recycling.  Last edited by poozie; 23-05-2007 at 07:41 PM. |
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23-05-2007, 07:56 PM
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| Extremely hot today, up well into the 30s. Started this morning by giving the new fruit bush boxes a new coat of preservative. Then moved another load of castine, finished the path round the house, reorganised the pots, dismantled the work benck pending building of a new one. After lunch, back out tying in cucs and toms, bit of a tidy round the spud tubs. Also managed to position the boxes, planted blueberry bushes and put the boxes/guards round the dessert grapes so I can't clip them with the strimmer. Then after tea managed to get the first coat of paint on the grey block wall which shows out onto the garden it's the front wall of the cave/cabin in which I keep my wine stocks, going to cover that with climbers once the second coat is on and dried. Then watered all round, took ages. Off at chumlette 2 tomorrow morning then taking chumlette to docs in afternoon so no gardening after lunch I think - but if it's as hot tomorrow as it was today, may not want to do any!
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23-05-2007, 07:58 PM
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| Day off yesterday, but had to take Mr D to the docs to pick up a sick note, then to his work to drop it off and do a bit of shopping, then home, lunch and got down to the plot for 3pm! The recent rain has caused a lot of weed seeds to germinate, not too much of a problem on most of the beds, as they've been regularly hoed, but the brassica bed under netting hadnt been hoed for about 9 days, and it was green with weeds! Removed the netting, hand dug out the thistles that are very deep rooted, then hoed it all off before planting out another 30 brassica seedlings and replacing the netting! Also planted out more sweetcorn, broad beans, lettuce and turnip seedlings, then watered everything, and after a total of 6 1/2 hours we left at 940pm, totally worn out! I need a holiday, trying to work full time, look after poorly Mr D, do the plot for him and run the house is wearing me out! Ah well, at least I've got a long weekend coming up with the BH! 
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23-05-2007, 08:23 PM
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| TPeers - I too am braving celery as a fledgling plotholder and I will be interested to hear how you get on with yours. My seedlings are coming into the 6 leaf stage and looking more 'wholesome' now as they do appear very, very fragile when they first come through and I have left them well alone. I will pot them on in a few days time to grow on as I would hate for the slugs/snails to polish them off if I planted too soon. I am planting everything else strictly by the moon calendar method and it is really frustrating to read how people are getting this and that into the ground when I am waiting for the 'right days' to plant out. I have started this method now and so I am going to follow it through for this season whilst keeping an eye on neigbouring plots to see if their produce does any better - or worse? than mine! I am just amazed every time I go to my plot to see how everything is growing and producing stuf for me to eat. I have been divvying up my glut of French Breakfast radishes for the last few days to people, as I would hate to see any of what I am growing go to waste because I couldn't use it. I have been picking baby beetroot and spinach leaves for my salad as I was a bit keen with the sowing of these! |
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23-05-2007, 08:42 PM
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| It's all coming together! 6 months after taking our half plot at the Hill, I've been up there this evening and picked pots, carrots and a couple of turnip for tea, and lettuce for lunch tomorrow! I can't tell you how much I am enjoying this!
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23-05-2007, 10:36 PM
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| Spent the last three days weeding after not beeing able to get on lottie for nearly a week due to last weeks rain I have just about caught up.. 
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23-05-2007, 10:58 PM
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| Didn't really do much today lol. watered the plants and seedlings. first courgette, runner beans, and french bean seedlings have appeared. little tiny potato leaves are also starting to appear. planted a few pots of mixed flowers which I've grown all of them from seed, so hopefully when they start flowering there will be a nice mixture of gladiolis, forget-me-nots, violas, lupins, hollyhocks and marigolds in each pot! radish seedlings are also growing like mad. dwarf carnations have lovely flowers on them, and I think my geranium that I thought was dead is coming back to life because there are a few new leaves on it lol. also did a bit of weeding. |
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23-05-2007, 11:09 PM
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| Also declared war on the weeds today! Generally untangling bindweed from poor defenceless plants and pulling out couch grass. I decided to give 'Path clear' a go, and 10 sachets later have only done half the drive!! I may need to rethink this as a pack of 18 costs £20!! I still have the patio to do and the path around the pond. I also planted out some marigolds, geraniums and cineraria, so 2 V. small beds look quite respectable! And it goes without saying that I also watered! |
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23-05-2007, 11:14 PM
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| I finally managed to get hold of some growbags today, they have been unavailable in my part of the world for the last three weeks! So, I happily potted on the last of my peppers and my cayenne peppers which are going to stay in the greenhouse. I spent about an hour watering everything, then sat down in my little plot that I am developing with a glass of wine and a good chunck of cheese and felt fairly content with life. All plants are growing well and the birds were singing. |
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23-05-2007, 11:24 PM
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| well didnt do much today, water all my babies at home, quite a few of them still I might add given away loads of lettice and carnations but still have loads left. tee hee. some of my brasicas arrived today they are plug plants so planted them up in cell trays til I get to allotment. Did go down to water all my little plants there too today and wow how they have come on. I cant wait to start to haverst! |
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24-05-2007, 02:23 AM
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| I'm a first timer in this confessional thread.... In the last couple of days i have been planting out loads of stuff after the great collapsing greenhouse shelving fiasco. a couple of trays of leeks. second batch of all the year round caulis (first lot have little caulis inside..really plsead with them). I am potting on all the pumpkins. I planted the last four giant sunflowers. harvesting. First outdoor strawberries Asparagus though i am going to finish at the beginning of june as it has been so early. Broadbeans and lettuce.
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24-05-2007, 08:38 AM
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| recent activities: watered the new turf weeded part of the lottie - the bindweed is coming through from the bits of root I missed but it is pulling up quite easily. checked the asparagus - now 4 out of the 6 crowns I planted have shoots. made a "to do" list for the next few days: weed weed weed weed water the turf weed weed
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24-05-2007, 06:24 PM
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| Today I potted on my last five courgette plants then put vaseline round all my pots containing courgettes and the three toms I have planted on. Hope to get to a garden centre over the weekend and get some organic slug pellets for the raised beds. Gave the onions, leeks and dwarf french beans in pots a feed with their water. Took some more growing tips off the broad beans (blackfly) and noticed I had a couple of small pods forming (yipee). |
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24-05-2007, 08:36 PM
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| Got to chumlette 2's this morning and started planting up - it was so hot tho so only stayed there a couple of hours. Did other things this afternoon, went to local wine dealer etc and the temperature outside was 38 - thirty eight!!!!!!!!!! No gardening this evening, tho it's wonderfully mild, it's still too hot to work so did the watering and called it a day! About 10 oclock the thunder and lightning started over the hills about 6 km away, sat and watched it from the terrace, really spectacular. Then it moved over to me - absolutely dropped down for a couple of hours, so wont have to water today!
__________________ TonyF, Dordogne 24220 Last edited by TonyF; 25-05-2007 at 07:19 AM. Reason: Content - amended |
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24-05-2007, 10:05 PM
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| never got chance to get out in the garden today, very unlike me! out there every evening normally! son is poorly, so after work today i have been looking after him! he loves the garden tho and really misses our chats outside about all the plants etc! we normally have a chat every morning while i sit in the garden with my cup of tea, he takes such an interest, I think kids should be encouraged more to get out into the garden, doesn't matter how dirty they get, they enjoy it and it washes off in the bath! |
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24-05-2007, 10:43 PM
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| Hi everyone Trying to get bits done slowly in the garden and lottie. Lottie hasn't been touched for 3 weeks or so since the potatoes went in  but hope to get down there this weekend to do some watering and if I can persuade him to, get OH to dig me a bed and I'll plant out my tomatos while we're there.This would be the tomatoes I never planted but magically appared out of my home made compost that I used for my new "fruit bushes in pots". I have about 30 of the b*ggers with super thick stems and fully hardened so why wait? ...unless I get rained off the lottie as I usually do when I plan to go down there  Been taking things very slowly recently as I'm really not feeling great with this pregnancy, but hope to also get out the back garen this weekend for some light weeding here and there
__________________ Shortie "There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children; one of these is roots, the other wings" - Hodding Carter |
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24-05-2007, 11:47 PM
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| Picked large punnet of outdoor grown straws! in May. I planted out my purple sprouting ,and a few lettuces, squished a load of asparagus beetles and lots of hoeing and weeding; Plus I cut the privet hedge and a few other bits at home-mowed the cuttings into compost material.
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25-05-2007, 12:37 AM
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| What I Did Today There's always been 'some debate' on removing the leaves below the first truss of fruits on a tomato plant, but that's one of the things that I did do today. The benefits in my particular instance here, are that there will now be more air circulation, it enables the first truss more chance of ripening, gives the Aubergine, Pepper and Chilli plants more even light, allows more accurate feeding/watering, and allows me to weed the beds more effectively. I can hear all the plants heaving huge sighs of relief as I type. I popped into The Forest of Dean Forestry HQ today to source more bark chips for my potager paths. I learned, rather surprisingly, that they were not able to supply them to me, and even if they were, they couldn't sell them to me, because they are non-profit-making. Indeed, if they themselves need bark chips for any of their 'play areas', they have to buy them in. See Wellie choke on her Cadbury Flake in complete disbelief at what nice lady said.... No, it's true. Whatever shreddies they have, they have to leave them on the forest floor. Which is, actually, hugely sensible with wildlife in mind.... However, I came away with loads of names and numbers to source the bark, because I just refuse to pay £3.99 a bag, and the nice lady was of the same opinion as me, and I'm really grateful to her for her help. And whilst I was there, I bought us an Annual Permit to pick up and carry out of the woods as much kindling as Trousers, Me and The Cat can manage, providing it's 3" diam or less. Bargain price of £5. Without it, it's called 'Stealing' or something...? (I also renewed 'Elderly Next Doors' permit, and he's exempt because he's so incredibly old, but now has a current permit to prove it). I've just had a 'LightBulb Moment'. Pick up as much kindling as can carry. Borrow Garden Shredder. Shred Kindling. Homer Simpson Moment: DOH! Now, who do I know with a Shredder?..... Thank you for listening,
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