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Well I've sepnt a very productive 3 hours in the garden this morning, clearing beds out, digging the spent growbag compost in, moving the Dwarf Beans into the greenhouse and planting out the Kale plants I had been growing in pots in the little greenhouse which I've been using in salads (the Kale that is and not the greenhouse 
). Well ok, the latter of these is me being optimistic again 
but I just couldn't bring myself to compost healthy plants.
The worst part of the day, if I don't count forking over the daleks one of which has a zillion fruit flies in it - decided to leave it uncovered for half an hour so the wren could have some brunch whilst I went and had a coffee
.Where was I? Oh yeah.
The worst part of the day was taking down my Cobnut plants.
I mean, I know that the leaves were yellow and mildew was forming, it's Autumn and frosts are probably just around the corner but the warm weather last week had caused the plants to throw out a whole host of flowers and there were some young fruits swelling at an impressive rate of knots and it I really don't like to 'throw' productive veg plants onto the compost.
It took a great deal of resolve and willpower, not to mention a severe talking to myself by me, to do the deed because I know that the little baby squashes would not have had the time to grow to a decent size and ripen - unless of course we're about to have the hottest Autumn on record
. Still doesn't feel right though and the weather forecasters better be correct about ground frosts this week and snow soon or I'll not be happy.
Garden is looking really bare now.
Reet
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). Well ok, the latter of these is me being optimistic again but I just couldn't bring myself to compost healthy plants.The worst part of the day, if I don't count forking over the daleks one of which has a zillion fruit flies in it - decided to leave it uncovered for half an hour so the wren could have some brunch whilst I went and had a coffee
.Where was I? Oh yeah.The worst part of the day was taking down my Cobnut plants.
I mean, I know that the leaves were yellow and mildew was forming, it's Autumn and frosts are probably just around the corner but the warm weather last week had caused the plants to throw out a whole host of flowers and there were some young fruits swelling at an impressive rate of knots and it I really don't like to 'throw' productive veg plants onto the compost.
It took a great deal of resolve and willpower, not to mention a severe talking to myself by me, to do the deed because I know that the little baby squashes would not have had the time to grow to a decent size and ripen - unless of course we're about to have the hottest Autumn on record
. Still doesn't feel right though and the weather forecasters better be correct about ground frosts this week and snow soon or I'll not be happy.Garden is looking really bare now.
Reet
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