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20-01-2008, 04:53 PM
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 Cleaned up lots of pots, trays and seed labels. Sowed some PSB (summer sprouting), set some Sturon onion sets in cell trays to start them off, also sowed some Brunswick onion seed (still waiting for the Durador to germinate). It's been very mild, grey and damp here today.      |
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20-01-2008, 05:07 PM
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| One of the aims of renting my allotment was to try and supply some fresh veg for 52 weeks of the year. Taking into consideration we are rapidly approaching February I am very, very pleased with my harvest of veg for this week! Yesterday I brought home about a wheelbarrow full of veg which included:- Freshly dug Parsnip Freshly dug Carrots Desiree potatoes from clamp Freshly dug Swedes Freshly dug Leeks Kilaxy cabbages Winter savoy cabbage Brussel sprouts Calabrese Stored Onions Stored Shallots White and red Ham Onions from store I could have also brought home Toscana de Niro and Red Russian kale, snowball turnips and beetroot.........but there's always another day! I also polished off a few of the Cape Gooseberries, but like Gardeners Delight tomatoes, they rarely leave the greenhouse!  Planted a couple of redcurrant bushes I had in pots from last year and mulched around the plants with FYM followed by a topdressing of straw to the whole area. Started the re-hashing of the main greenhouse to get everything in position for the start of the new seed sowing season. Only the Goosegogs left to plant now and they can wait until next weekend!
__________________ 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) |
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20-01-2008, 05:09 PM
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| Snadger, you're just showing off now  I picked sprouts, curly kale, Italian kale, cabbage, mustard, pak choi, red giant mustard and the ubiquitous Chard. Not in great quantity, but enough for my tea.
__________________ ~ What do I think of Western civilisation? I think it would be a very good idea ~ Gandhi |
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20-01-2008, 05:59 PM
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| On the harvesting front we bagged Leek Valour potato black tuscan kale carrot celeriac beetroot spring onion lettuce swede Parsnip. out in the home greenhouse I pricked out more rose de roscoff onion seedlings plus banana shallot and mammoth improved onion seedlings. The sweet peas have germinated as have the dahlia seed and the hative de niort shallots are starting to put down some roots.
__________________ Kindest regards, David. http://pigletsplots.blogspot.com/ updated - Sunday 19th at 2100hrs |
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20-01-2008, 06:05 PM
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| Another Wasted Sunday. Quote:
Between 9--9.30am it did not rain, during that time i squelched up to the greenhouse..poked about, found a big brown caterpillar under a plant pot.  Had cup of tea, it started raining and has not STOPPED all day  Ive been watching Gardening, allotment related Dvds whilst doing the Ironing. Fed up with rain. It will be nice and sunny all next weekend..i'm at work. |
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20-01-2008, 06:25 PM
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| I think that you all know wot I did toady ...after digging up some lovely parsnips yesterday and (not to be outdone by the boys!) a few leeks, I came home and embarked on the Parsnip Wine.The wine is taking forever to cool to a temperature suitable for adding the yeast, which I hope to do later. The parsnips have been roasted and turned into soup (I think it may be a bit thick - should you be able to stand your spoon up in it?  ).I've put a tray of pot sown broad beans in the mini greenhouse now that they've all germinated on the windowsill, and noticed that although the pot sown hative de niort shallotss are all showing green shoots, there's not much going in from the bananana shallots.
__________________ Hazel www.hazelandjanesallotment.blogspot.com update Sun 30/11/2008......Indoor Allotmenteering too!..... |
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20-01-2008, 06:30 PM
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__________________ A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot! (Thomas Edward Brown) |
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20-01-2008, 06:38 PM
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__________________ Hazel www.hazelandjanesallotment.blogspot.com update Sun 30/11/2008......Indoor Allotmenteering too!..... |
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20-01-2008, 07:18 PM
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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) |
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20-01-2008, 08:12 PM
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| We're not supposed to 'chat' on this thread folks, so I won't. Haze - freeze as is, then thin a little when you defrost it.... Trizers and I harvested baby Savoy Cabbages and Purple Sprouts for our lunch today, Leeks yesterday, because we're not greedy or at all 'show-offy' like the rest of you, she lied..... Made shed-loads (12 jars) of Blackcurrant Jam this evening, and doing Redcurrant Jelly at the minute..... no peace for the wicked!
__________________ With Love, Wellie Give it some.... http://hollycottagegarden.blogspot.com BLOG UPDATED Sunday 2nd November at 19.30hrs |
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20-01-2008, 08:22 PM
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| Today, managed to harvest some nero di toscano and 3 zlata radish ( for salad mix) when the rain stop pouring down. Collect the remaining of falling oak leaves and set them in black plastic bag ( to be composted). topping up some compost with bunny and cavy waste and checking the potato seeds ( the HBR and SB are chitting, the arielle seeds are starting to chit and the Nicola still has no sign). Momol
__________________ I grow, I pick, I eat ... |
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21-01-2008, 03:32 AM
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| today i worked... again!... but i did spot that my leeks have germinated and are poking up to say hi along with my peas, and yesterday i got some exciting seeds from a company and also off 2 other grapes... it's like christmas all over again, but without the stress. |
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21-01-2008, 11:18 AM
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| Yesterday I defrosted the freezer (not a long job - only got a fridge freezer) harvested green cabbage, parsnips, artichokes for tea and extra artichokes for soup - made today. I invented marmalade bread and butter pudding - go on, try it, you know you want to! The sweet peas are all leaping out of their root-trainers so they're going into the greenhouse from the kitchen sill.
__________________ Earth laughs in flowers. Ralph Waldo Emerson www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated November 30th - Mr Stinky's Excellent Adventure (and a Christmas Cake) |
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21-01-2008, 01:41 PM
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| Yesterday I finally finished double digging my first raised bed. 1m wide 4.5 m long. I'm now eagerly awaiting the delivery of my seed potatoes to go in it. Also my out-laws brought round their garden shredder that they don't use any more so I can shred all the clearing prunings that are currently stacked on the mud patch I call a lawn |
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21-01-2008, 04:01 PM
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| Today, I am going to cultivate my Mushroom spawn on birch woodchips. sow some brassica if I still have some time left and moved the tiny pea seedling in the plastic/mini green house if it stop raining.
__________________ I grow, I pick, I eat ... |
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21-01-2008, 05:35 PM
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| Today I collected my trailer of very well rotted manure from our local farm and topped off a large raised bed and part filled another whos levels had dropped as the contents settled last year. On plot three the last of the scrap metal went into the site compound ready for collection when there is a worthwhile amount piled up. A little repair job netted me a crisp £20 note and this was largely spent on onion sets from our local hardware shop along with an energy saving lightbulb that is equivalent in size to a "40w golfball" shape. Whilst I can readily get ones that are a bit bigger they show over the top of the light shades and this one doesnt. As its good for 15000 hours I wont be changing them very often but at a penny under £6 each I wont be buying them all in one go (I need 15 of them).
__________________ Kindest regards, David. http://pigletsplots.blogspot.com/ updated - Sunday 19th at 2100hrs Last edited by pigletwillie; 22-01-2008 at 06:55 PM. |
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21-01-2008, 09:26 PM
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| They look lovely and healthy. The pre packed ones are always a risk but its hard to find a store where they sell them loose but well worth the search.
__________________ And when you're back stops aching, And you're hands begin to harden. You will find yourself a partner, In the glory of the garden. Rudyard Kipling. |
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22-01-2008, 06:11 PM
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| Well its been a long time since ive been on this forum - to be honest winter was a bit of a disastar on the vegetable front! my poor garden was so destroyed by the weather that not much survived. However during the summer/autumn months i did manage to harvest some lovely courgettes, lettuce, cucumber, spinach, radish, broad beans, runner beans, chillies, baby sweetcorn, carrots and potatoes!! My main crop - tomatoes, didnt make it, they all suffered with terrible blight, some of the courgettes and my peas had downey mildew and the chima di Rapa and other italian and english brassicas didnt work at all. I have decided to take all i learned last year and start again with the plan of a whole years supply of yummy veggies. Today I have harvested the last of my spinach and carrots, took down my wrecked plastic greenhouse and threw it away, removed many many weeds and old dead veg and generally started to get my garden back into shape. Over the next few days i will clean out all my pots, remove more weeds and buy new compost and some growbags - i decided not to recycle much of last years compost because of the diseases etc., so im really starting afreash apart from some of the growbags in my lil poly tunnel to which i will add some lovely horse manure! so thats it a long way to go but its a start and im happy with what i have done so far and i think this year maybe better now i know exactly what grows well and where etc. |
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22-01-2008, 06:16 PM
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| Harvested leeks, romanesco, swede and strange swede type roots [Real Seeds specials] for soup. Put the raised raised mini beds in for the carrots and filled with sand/sompost mix. Lettuce and beetroot from early sowings had come up, so moved to light place until ready to plant out. Ditto Auroro and Grushovka toms. Trialled some mushroom spores. OH planted out some stuff I bought him for the borders, Echinacea/sea holly/ and other stuff [not really good on non-food plants]. Did weeding until it rained. Made a cup of tea when it did. |
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22-01-2008, 07:12 PM
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| Today was a day without rain and actually a little sunshine and I made full use of it as I am back on shift tommorow. The last of the parsnips were lifted and boy were they big. They were "Gladiator" and came out to make way for another raised bed which now needs filling. Parsnip-Gladiator In the new tunnel, two blue barrels and two scaffolding planks were turned into staging and will hold all of my onion seedlings when I move them from the greenhouse at home later this week. Still on plot 2, the permanent climbing bean bed had scaffodling planks fitted around it "raised bed" style but it was just to hold back the soil from spilling onto the path as the level was higher due to all of the kitchen waste and compost added over the last few years. On plot one, two beds of Autumn bliss raspberries were cut down to the ground and the prunings put on the bonfire. This has exposed a few weeds which can now be dug out before the new growth really gets going. All in all a good, productive day and I was not held up at by not being able to dig.
__________________ Kindest regards, David. http://pigletsplots.blogspot.com/ updated - Sunday 19th at 2100hrs |
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22-01-2008, 08:01 PM
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| I finally succumbed and bought the poorly Lemon (Citrus Limon) and Calamondin, Panama Orange (Citrofortunella microcarpa) that have been slowly dying in Woolworths for the past week. I decided I would give them a chance of life. I haven't got proper citrus compost and don't feel able to invest in a bag of this for 2 nearly dead plants so they will just get potted in multipurpose compost to see if they survive. If they do come round I will buy the proper feed and soil for them. Here's hoping they rally as I have wanted a lemon and an orange for ages but can't afford the big ones they sell in the garden centre. |
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