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30-03-2008, 08:59 PM
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 Whole day (more or less) on the lottie today!  Couldn't get Wilko staging and too impatient to order it and wait, I got the wire shelving out of the shed and put it in the greenhouse. Don't need it in the shed anyway. Moved old bath from junkheap (must use that hippobag...) into lottie and a nice man from freecycle came and filled it with soil for me. Pulled some leeks for swopsies. Got some sharp sand from a neighbour to help drainage. Next job: sow carrots and salad onions. Planted loads more veg - French beans, broadies, sprouts, leaf beet, cos lettuce, chives, coriander... And some flowers - sunflowers, nasturtium, delphinium, hollyhock, poached egg plant, marigolds, sweet peas, stock, convolvulus... I'm sure there was more! Greenhouse nearly full now. Blog updated. Geeky spreadsheet filled in. Did some weeding but not much - only the asparagus bed and the bed in which I had sown Japanese onions last year. I sowed 6 rows of 15. Guess how many germinated. Go on. Guess. One. I transplanted it to the JA bed where it can have some peace for a few weeks.
__________________ You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. Max Ehrmann, Desiderata blog: http://allyheebiejeebie.blogspot.com/ and my (basic!) page: http://www.allythegardener.co.uk/      |
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30-03-2008, 09:47 PM
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| Like others, had a lovely day here! So, put in my New Jersey Royals and Charlottes in tubs/inside out compost bags, that was something I just had to do today regardless of weather. Went to Focus, Aldi and Lidl...bought compost (sorry, mine is not ready!) and seed trays.There were showers, but when the rain was on, I was in the kitchen, planting chilli seeds and the like! Seemed really warm when sun out...is spring here yet you think?  |
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30-03-2008, 10:14 PM
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| Didn't do alot today as I am laying a wood floor but managed to sneak out and plant out my leeks which were sown last year and raspberry plants. What a fanatastic day though. NN
__________________ If there is no football and gardening in heaven - I'm not going. |
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30-03-2008, 10:24 PM
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| Pre-Chit Disappointment Sowed the failed Minidor and Cosse Voilette beans for 2nd time, smaller fruiting bittergourd (thanks to Momol), possibly Rose de Berne tom, the non-chitted k-roll squashes (Buttercup, Butternut, Egyptian White) and a fresh seed of Cornell Bush Delicata using the 2" cell insert for the frist time, all to be put in heated propagator. If only all vegetables had the most perfect predictability of Leeks on window sill  (counted that almost all 40 seeds have germinated). I've decided to abandon the PG in k-roll for all squash seeds, not working out as well as I had hoped.Been to car boot sales market in the morning but didn't see the seeds stall selling exclusively Suttons that was there last year (August?). Hope they'll be back. Didn't get excited by the flowering plants that were on sale except for one vegetable, a pack of 6 broad beans for a quid which was pretty good going except we don't eat that particular bean.
__________________ Food for Free  Last edited by veg4681; 30-03-2008 at 10:28 PM. |
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30-03-2008, 10:25 PM
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| Snap me &OH laying wood floor, kept looking out a fine sunny weather,torture kept getting calls fetch hammer,fetch,saw, .....but have to say grand job, dinning room looks fab now...Looking forward to these light nights now PLEASE cant we stick to them , it makes much better sense and everyone is much happier.......  |
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31-03-2008, 12:38 AM
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| Today I filled up our porch to the brim with the last of the seedlings I'm going to be able to fit in there, watered and turned the ones that are in there already, dropped my cucumbers UP the stairs (I don't know how I manage this stuff - they took me ages to germinate and pot on and now they'll probably die!) and looked at a greenhouse I might buy on ebay. Then researched some copper strip that I want to edge my beds with (to keep slugs and snails out) and fed the birds. As a bonus I've managed to wear the dog out with all that time in the fresh air |
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31-03-2008, 01:11 AM
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| I planted 30 shallots that I'd rooted in the little girls greenhouse. Pricked out 15 'Swiss Tony' Chard seedlings and 'as ya do' 60 Begonia seedling plugs wot I bought today for to pretty the garden up later maybe..... I also sowed 31 Sweetcorn 'Swift' seeds into modules. Having put all the salad leaves out in their trays in my SALAD BAR, I was completely dismayed to see my Gardening Cat sat squarely on two of them at about 5pm this evening. My Cat has completely squashed them. Bugger...
__________________ With Love, Wellie Give it some.... http://hollycottagegarden.blogspot.com BLOG UPDATED Sunday 2nd November at 19.30hrs Last edited by wellie; 31-03-2008 at 01:14 AM. |
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31-03-2008, 10:10 AM
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| OH took the second earlies (beautifully chitted!!) to the plot yesterday, along with some modules of lettuce seedlings, to come home with them still in his hands!! Lock on the gate was new and there's a broken key in it already so trying to find ou twhat the situation is (and hoping LA are not playing silly buggers again). Anyway, we stuck the lettuces into the garden (I had already put 2 modules into the garden on Sat and spuds back upstairs for a few days. I put the mange tout, dwarf french beans and borlotti beans from early loo roll sowings into the garden as well along the fence. Last night, I made a lot of new sowings indoors - Tomatoes: Sub arctic San Mareno Rio Grande Super Roma Harlequin Salads: Niche mix Spicy mix Land cress Corn salad Spinach Coriander Courgette: Defender Golden Dawn Summer Squash - Sunburst Leeks: Musselburgh Castor Peas: Little Marvel Dwarf French beans (variety escapes me) Then I retired to the couch, glass of limoncello in hand, and refused to take up knitting needles (only have 1 side seam to do on baby blanket required for weekend, but refused to pickup stitches last night!). Watched Monty Don flitting around South East Asia. |
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31-03-2008, 10:45 AM
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| Sorry - forgot to add sowed chilli's as well - Joe's Long (OH was NOT impressed!! ) |
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31-03-2008, 10:52 AM
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| Yesterday we: Went to check out the plots at the new lottie; meeting the guy today at 4 so we wanted to check out the options and agree on our first choice. OH bought a load of bordery plants for his patch from Trowell GC; loads of choice there if you are Nottingham/Derby based. I pottered around, marked out the 3 sisters beds so that I know what to sow; did some weeding, and sowed some ailsa craig onions.
__________________ Andrea :wavehello http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...logs/zazen999/ moon trials completed: tomatoes [46% increase in crop per seed sown and 10% increase in crop per plant] currently underway: calabrese garlic http://linearlegume.blogspot.com/ Last edited by zazen999; 31-03-2008 at 10:54 AM. |
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31-03-2008, 06:29 PM
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| A productive afternoon and a treat for the local blackbirds. The weather forecast said it would rain this afternoon so I had little hope of doing anything in the allotment but... THEY WERE WRONG  I threw some "growmore" around and planted the potatoes: 20 Arran Pilot 21 Anya (18 in the ground, 3 in a bucket) 32 Sarpo Axona The sarpos were supposed to be sold in bags of 20 so I bought two online - only to find they were sold by weight and the tubers were tiny! I have about 50 more chitted & ready to go  Freecycle! In the process of planting I found two small parsnips. Removed the netting from the overwintered brassicas and pulled up the remaining 4 Kale (Black Tuscan) and fed it to the chickens. Not impressed with it at all. Might try again this year with a different part of the plot. Weeded around the PSB, removed one that fell over under the weight of a Hard Stare because some critter had munched through the stem. Removed all the cardboard mulch I'd planted through and let the birds be my instruments of revenge on the slugs. Replaced the netting over the PSB. Started digging over & weeding what will be the squash bed. Removed the tarp from the pea & bean bed-to-be. Tidied up the strawberries. Pulled two leeks to have with dinner.
__________________ You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. Max Ehrmann, Desiderata blog: http://allyheebiejeebie.blogspot.com/ and my (basic!) page: http://www.allythegardener.co.uk/ |
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31-03-2008, 06:54 PM
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| I nipped to the allotment for an hour this afternoon & planted 30 "Foremost" first earlies. It was a very good feeling to be planting something instead of digging.
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31-03-2008, 07:01 PM
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| I bet it was eternal........I HAVE DEF planned to go to lottie tomorrow, come rain or shine! Done nothing but chill all day. |
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31-03-2008, 07:08 PM
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| Today i put the staging back into the greenhouse (everything came out when we lost a few panes, but they've been replaced now), and put all my seeds back out there - my house is now seedless! Yay! I potted on... 24 sweetcorn 15 or so basil 3 yellow capsicum peppers 1 cucumber 2 pumpkin 10 or so beetroot I sowed into cells/modules... 15 fresno chillies 25 purple capsicum peppers 20 tomatoes 11 cucumbers 20 sweet pointy peppers 20 red cherry chillies I then gave everything a thorough watering, and then spent a couple of hours trying to make myself look busy so i had an excuse to stay out there longer without being nagged by the kids or OH lolThe greenhouse is looking somewhat like a garden centre at the moment  I love it though Oh, and i got a bit of sunburn!!!!! On my nose and cheeks, and the tops of my shoulders... I looooovvveeeeeeeeeee the start of summer (please let it last!!!) xxxx
__________________ 3 chooks (getting some more soon), 2 goats, 1 pony, 1 dog, 2 geese, 18 wild ducks, 3 veg plots, 2 kids and the OH Am i mad? |
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31-03-2008, 08:28 PM
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| Oriental Leaves Planted Out Glorious day, so mild was the weather the soil was warm to the touch. Planted out most of the first sowing of the year of Oriental leafy Brassica in the raised bed but these are only the bigger plantlets that were suffocating the smaller ones in a crowded fruit bush plastic packaging that I had got from Woolies . Apart from Pak Choy & Chinese Cabbage (prickly looking leaves), at this stage can't tell apart the Choy Sum from Komatsuna and the Collards from Kailaan but think I recognised the Tatsoi (so sweet looking) which were repotted separately in a deeper dish (fruit punnet) as they're still a lot smaller than those planted in bed. Remaining smaller leafy brassica repotted to give them more breathing/growing space, every leaves saved.
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31-03-2008, 09:09 PM
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| After a day of finance and meetings, I came home and put in the 3rd small raised bed in the back garden. |
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31-03-2008, 09:19 PM
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| i did alot of stuff yesterday, but felt sooooo good to come home from work today, sun WAS shining, and with a couple of layers of clothes on, got out in the garden..sowed some more salad stuff, lisbon spring onions, mizuna etc. sat in sun with spritzer for a while...fantastic! bring on the spring! |
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31-03-2008, 09:26 PM
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31-03-2008, 10:11 PM
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| We had rain forecast, so of course it was warm and sunny all day! I managed to get the last of my onion sets in the ground, and my Arran Pilot, Maris Peer and Saxon spuds in. The soil was well-drained and surprisingly warm.
__________________ ~ What do I think of Western civilisation? I think it would be a very good idea ~ Gandhi |
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31-03-2008, 11:10 PM
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| not exactually today here's what i've been upto since october last year. pic 1 - looking up the plot from the fruit bed. pic 2 - the bean trench pic 3 - onion bed with compost heap in background , new rhubarb bed top right. pic 4 - greenhouse base built from an old pallet , 8" by 1 1/2 " timber with 3" square posts. pic 5 - potato bed left and onion right with stone path.
__________________ ---) CARL (---- ILFRACOMBE NORTH DEVON a seed planted today makes a meal tomorrow! www.freewebs.com/carlseawolf now in blog form ! UPDATED 01 / 04 / 08 |
