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If theres a job which signals the end of the gardening year on your plot what is it, for me its either clearing the greenhouse of chillies or cutting back and composting the asparagus bed which was done yesterday.
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I find there is no such thing as an end to the gardening year. Once the crops have finished, beds have to be prepared for next year, leaves have to be continually raked, trees need pruning, logs need cutting, loads of shredding to do, then there'll be snow to shift.........before you know it, it's time to start sowing again.......I need a 62 week year...........
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Just a cycle for me too, always have stuff growing so as one thing finishes, something else starts. Suppose it is seasonal but I don't think of the being an end or start season as there are already things in for next year so 2015 started in about April 2014 when I sowed the lines of PSB
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Same for me, Mally. Got the greenhouse cleared of toms, peppers, etc but I've moved in some tubs of salad leaves, spring onions, etc. Got some overwintered peas and broad beans coming along nicely in there as well. With nine fruit trees and numerous bushes there's plenty of pruning and shredding to be done and mild autumn weather has meant a fair bit of weed growth on vacant beds. I'll be hard pressed to get everything sorted before the heated propagators come out and sowing starts again.Comment
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Not the end to the gardening year but the back end of the present one, is when the main crop spuds come out the bins and the curly kale goes in.Potty by name Potty by nature.
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I agree the whole thing is a cycle that never really has an end or beginning. I'm already planning next year's sowing and planting and where to put everything, which is always a challenge as most places are still occupied by broccoli, leeks, cabbages and chard.A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard NimoyComment
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Still loads to do. My peppers and chiilies are still cropping, got turnips, chard, broccoli and cabbagges still to harvest.
Meanwhile theres another polytunnel to put up and beds to condition. It never ends lolWhat do you get if you divide the circumference of a pumpkin by its diameter?
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There is NEVER a last job in the garden!!!!!!!Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poetComment
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Mine's come to an end for the year - there are crops to pick but I go up once a week or once a fortnight and potter. The hedge is trimmed, the manure bins are full, as many of the beds as can be have been turned over and/or planted up.
I've a couple of structural things to do if/when I have the time but otherwise that's it till the Spring or when it's dry up there, whichever happens first. I like the idea of having a break - but really there's only a month to go before my chillies are sown and the spuds arrive for chitting and it all starts again.http://mudandgluts.com - growing fruit and veg in suburbiaComment
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I was going to say that ripping up the bean and tomato plants usually makes me feel summer has come to an end...but this year we were oicking a second sowing of beans in November, and we ripped up the toms with blight in July!
Once all the beds are covered and the fallen leaves gathered I do get a feeling of having 'tucked in' the beds for the winter!"Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple
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Never ending stoooooooooooory, la la la ,la la la, la la la!
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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Not really an end to the season, just a real slowing down, because work has to wait on the weather
Just a little bit of tidying up and a couple of beds want digging, and that's it...... and the compost to spread.........and I need to try to get the couch out of the raspberries again.............and the shed door wants mending.........the garlic wants planting from it's modules...............there's always summat to do.
Oooh and when they arrive there's some more fruit to plant in the new bed, and a frame to build for the loganberry.
Then there'll be the potatoes to chit and we start all over again
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I'm with Snadger!!!!Originally posted by Snadger View PostNever ending stoooooooooooory, la la la ,la la la, la la la!Comment
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I've always found winter to be the most time consuming...having just got a new allotment in September, its an unending list of things to do! But on my old allotment, I guess the 'season' finished when I picked my last autumn veg and started digging, manuring and had no crops to pick until early spring
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I love harvesting during winter, the crops stand so don't spoil by bolting when you blink. At the moment I've got kale, cabbage, sprouts, carrots, parsnips, swede and leeks wih other stuff to look forward to in springOriginally posted by buzzingtalk View PostI guess the 'season' finished when I picked my last autumn veg and started digging, manuring and had no crops to pick until early spring
Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.
Which one are you and is it how you want to be?Comment
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