Fascinating Difference

[Lumpy]

^^^ That's for me to know and you to guess.

Where did you come from, Lumpy - and don't say from your Mummy's tummy!!
I was replying to rary, not you.

I snuck in while your beak was otherwise engaged. Oh ell I’m reading a gardening book.........

[Lumpy]

Oi Rary are you implying me and my sister chicken can cause confusion?

I know naff all about gardening but am here to entertain.......why do you think I can’t grow beetroot.

[veggiechicken]

Me well.................. I shove stuff in Willy Nilly to see what happens (if anything).

Poor Willy. Is that why he walks peculiarly?

Apologies for the tangent but I thought it would amuse rary

As you were..................

[Lumpy]

Poor Willy. Is that why he walks peculiarly?

Apologies for the tangent but I thought it would amuse rary

As you were..................

Ive never seen a walking willy. Spotty and wrinkly yes but is a walking on especially bred for the British climate?

OK im off to find my enthusiasm........last seen running away with my diet plan.

[boatsman]

I enjoy reading the various posts on the vine. Unfortunately a lot of the subject matter goes over my head as I've never been in a supermarket where trees and plants are sold.

[rary]

Oi Rary are you implying me and my sister chicken can cause confusion?

I know naff all about gardening but am here to entertain.......why do you think I can’t grow beetroot.

Sorry about that Lumpy don't mean to imply anything
You and VC cause confusion on various threads

[JanieB]

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that your neighbors alluded to, survived whatever tumult caused their kitchen to become a subterranean feature of the garden :-)

The remains of the old kitchen are under my garden. The neighbour probably has the same. When the terrace was first built in circa 1790 it was thatched and the kitchen was built across a yard for safety reasons. When the terrace was altered and added to in 1820 it was then tiled and a kitchen added to the main building leaving the original kitchen as an outhouse. This was pulled down in 1951, but they left the wall nearest the house as a dwarf wall and filled it with soil, however, having dug an exploratory hole a few years ago, I found the original flagged floor just over a metre down. We found the remains of the back wall whilst rotavating last summer.

I’m using the old bricks we dug up as borders to flower beds.

[nickdub]

Best keep stum about it all in my opinion - if Time Team gets wind of this story you'll have whole herds of archeologists making holes in your veg patch :-)

Can't claim anything equivalent around me, though I've sometimes wondered if the track that goes down by my cottage and continues on by a stream in the valley, might not be a old pack route - if I knew anyone with a metal detector, I'd ask them to give it a recce.

[JanieB]

Best keep stum about it all in my opinion - if Time Team gets wind of this story you'll have whole herds of archeologists making holes in your veg patch :-)

Can't claim anything equivalent around me, though I've sometimes wondered if the track that goes down by my cottage and continues on by a stream in the valley, might not be a old pack route - if I knew anyone with a metal detector, I'd ask them to give it a recce.

Doubt it, it’s neither old enough or interesting enough. However, when my ex and I moved into an old farmhouse, the previous residents weren’t interested in a garden and had put what had obviously once been garden and orchard down to grass. My husband promised to turn some of the land over for me so that I could have my garden. Whoops! He immediately hit something rather solid so he tried a bit further over with the same result. We discovered a Roman pavement. As we’d already had a visit from a historical researcher from Oxford University, we just tamped it all back down and put a load of topsoil on top so that I got my garden.

[ESBkevin]

We do start with a seed starting schedule and photos/drawings of what was where last year(s). Other than that records are retained in whats left of my brain.

We have a goal to grow organically and one half of the plot is dedicated to no dig as an experiment.

After that we make it up as we go and work at it when time/weather/circumstance allows. Now carol is part time we will keep abreast of things better. Nature is very tolerant of my meddling and usually fixes things in spite of my efforts.

[bikermike]

I keep a notebook (a moleskine as a present from my wife), that is small enough to go in my pocket. I generally try to write up what I did each visit to the plot/greenhouse. This tends to be what I've planted, what areas I've dug/weeded, progress of plants (good) and weeds (bad), also I'm noting the frosts this year. I keep a plan of what is planted where for rotation purposes too. When I'm travelling on the train, I'll often try to work out different rotations etc. There's also to-do lists, records of garden-centre trips, wildlife notes. It's not thematic, only chronological, but at the moment, it's easy to search (the longer I keep it up, the harder to find things it will be).

[Miss Mousetrousers]

I used to be quite meticulous in keeping records of what went in which bed, the variety of seeds used, when they were sown, what feed I used and how they did etc, but due to not being as mobile as I was I just sow or plant them when the weather improves (usually in mid-April) and, apart from rotating the onion family and potatoes, I just bung them in wherever there's room.