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Thanks SR - nice to know that it is freakish. Lambs in Shetland don't start arriving until early May - they have obviously learnt not to appear before that time!

Day before yesterday I was able to sow chillies, toms, marigolds, pot on asparagus peas, plant out mammoth onion seedlings, tidy out pond, dead head flowers, pot on broad beans etc.in glorious sunshine. Yesterday it was chucking it down (rain) so I put together an Ikea chest of drawers & am now stiff as an MDF board!

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Into every life a little rain must fall.

Hurrah, my asparagus crowns have arrived and the weekend cometh

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Kindest regards, David.

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updated - Sunday 19th at 2100hrs

Woken up at 4 this morning by daughter having had a bad dream - looked out of bedroom window - bloody snowing again !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Turned to sleet later in the day, then rain and is still raining as I type. God I love working outside in Springtime.

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Rat

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Blog updated Wednesday November 13th

See the difference half an hour makes - now it's bloody snowing again

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Scottish by the Grace of God

Blog updated Wednesday November 13th

I've spent the day looking out the window at work and planning the weekend. When it snows, I think of the decorating I need to get done, when the sun comes out, hey ........ polytunnel. I'm exhausted, its been going from one to the other all day.

At the moment no snow (yeeesss!), but hellish cold wind. See the wind has gone round the south - you'd better not be sending up your snow SR

Jennie
You have enough to contend with without me adding to your troubles, so will have a word with him upstairs and send the snow to Englandshire for the weekend so you and me can get some gardening done tomorrow.

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Blog updated Wednesday November 13th

Oi !!!!! I got my muck to dig in!!!!!

S'okay Nicos, the Big Man wasn't listening - was more snow here this morning, though not a lot. Cold winds though, and I think they have visited Jennie before coming down to me. Forecast for this week is sh** but then supposed to improve. It's actually quite warm out of the wind so am gonna sow some seeds in the greenhouse now and plant my first and second earlies in buckets / containers / growbags etc. Enjjoy digging in yer muck

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Blog updated Wednesday November 13th

Today I sug over some of my garden with my sister and transfered two of my grasses to nearer the house. Just come in for a cuppa from a little weeding out the front... It's been quite nice a warm here today

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Shortie

"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children; one of these is roots, the other wings" - Hodding Carter

Today I had yet another tidy up to try and make more room in the greenhouse for all the stuff!. Potted up some bit's n bobs tomatoes, moved some onions into 6" pots & leeks - I'm growing these for seed as they are a different variety and potted up some of the french beans Yaaaayy! 15/15 whoo hooo!

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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

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Carried on in the greenhouse as showery weather here, tomatoes and chillies potted on and a raft of flowers for the cutting garden pricked out.

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Kindest regards, David.

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updated - Sunday 19th at 2100hrs

Potted the yellow loosestrife received from Nicos and dug over my no dig patch ...... anybody notice that ? The no dig idea doesn't seem to have worked, all I've got is a splody mess of muck. So cleared it all off and turned the clods over, so not all lost. Should be able to plant some spuds in it.

Your right SR - am sending down the snow clouds! They look empty. No snow today, but braaly cold dodging the hail showers.

Planted earlies in their buckets - Foremost, Arran Pilot and Charlotte. Sowed chives and two varieties of tagetes in seed trays. Sowed CCA salad leaves in trough. Sowed peas "Early Onward" in length of guttering. The peas and CCA salad leaves sown by daughter - she also decided that she wanted to grow spuds so she has planted one charlotte tuber in each half of a grow bag.
I should add that these are all in greenhouse, and all covered with fleece too.

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Blog updated Wednesday November 13th

Have taken to sowing largeer seeds in damp kitchen paper and only planting the seeds up as they sprout. Takes less space up in the greenhouse.
today planted up 12 melon seedlings. 6 Galia and 6 Cantalope. Also planted up 6 chilly pepper seedlings. Had sown a dozen in a pot but nothing grew hence my starting the Kitchen paper method.
Went on Patrol looking for Lilly Beetles.
Jax

Yesterday I cut the grass for the third time this year, noticed that my first Rocket spuds have made an appearance, I picked the last of the winter cabbage for dinner and took delivery of some posts for my blackberry 'hedge' - now all I need is to borrow one of those post bashers to get them in place

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Jax, Have you tried the paper towel method before? If not, be watchful as they do almost all sprout and when they start, they shoot really quickly. Last year I tried this and one day they started shooting, I didn't check them for two days and on the third they were huge but also straggly and not very strong

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Shortie

"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children; one of these is roots, the other wings" - Hodding Carter

Shortie, thanks for the advice. I will keep an eye peeled.
Jax

Well, we had a mixed bag here today. I managed to get to the alottment & do a bit of digging, planted my broad beans & Shallots that I started out in the cold greenhouse. Had a natter to one or two folk that I haven't seen in ages & went home with the sunday leeks ( we have them every sunday - good job I grow loads ) Went to the g/house after luch & pottered in there for a while then Rats curse finally worked & we had a blizzard for about 10 minutes. But still a productive day

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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/

Planted out onion and shallot sets and two crowns of rhubarb. Its the first time I've grown any of these. I wasn't too sure where the crown of the rhubarb ended and the roots began so planted almost all of it with just the tops showing. I also manured another strip of my garden, just another 3 strips to go. Still not planted the potatoes out, they are chitting in the greenhouse, 2 of the earlies have gone mouldy (they had an orangey powder on them) so I hope I won't lose the whole lot. Still not sure where I'm going to put them or in what. Remind me not to order so many next year!

Sunshine! Went out & took down a broken arch & pruned the roses & clematis off them, built a new metal kit arch , put it up & retied in the roses etc.

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Into every life a little rain must fall.

I received my water saver for my downspout, fitted it - I bet now I have it the rain will stop.

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Andrewo
Harbinger of Rhubarb tales

well, over the last couple of days have weeded like a mad thing, and moved various bits around. got v. worried about new pots, which have been in the ground for a month, but nothing but buttercups showing! so dug one up - it has sprouted, but I reckon it needs some warmth, which is in short supply down here. my brother - in Devon - says his spuds are already coming up.