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Some days it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints!
One bit of old folklore wisdom says to plant tomatoes when the soil is warm enough to sit on with bare buttocks. In surburban areas, use the back of your wrist. Jackie French
Member of the Eastern Branch of the Darn Under Nutter's Club
Not done a thing, apart from daydream about all the stuff I could be doing down the allotment. Especially today with the sun out!
Working again! It'll be probably raining when I want to go again.
Have a great day at your plot, everyone!
Just got back from lottie in time to watch Man City give Leeds Utd a lesson in football...........anyway, I tangetise........... Managed to mulch the greenhouse borders & got the tunnels in place to warm up the soil. Made a cane trellis & planted the Wineberry......yeh, I remembered..........
sigpic“Gorillas are very intelligent, but they don't have to be as delicate as chimps -- they can just smash open the termite nest,” -------------------------------------------------------------------- Official Member Of The Nutters Club - Rwanda Branch. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Sent from my ZX Spectrum with no predictive text..........
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Potted on chillies and introduced them to outside for a few hours (warm and sunny today). Put overwintered fatalii outside for the afternoon.
Sowed tomatoes indoors.
Planted chocolate vine, popped wineberry into a pot until I can find a home for it, Planted my apple mint plugs into pots and split and repotted some aloe vera.
Sowed some early nantes 2 carrots. Kit including soil and reusabe growing bag cost me 99p last year
Sowed, my 4 inch broadies out on veg plot planted, carrot, scorzonera, radish on plot. Sowed bucket of spring onions, 2 pumpkin seeds 4 courgette seeds and a tray of french beans and sweet peppers in the green house. Cleaned out the coop and checked my injured silkie was still ok. She got her head stuck and was bleeding so she is separate at the moment x doing well though !!!
Finished leveling all the soil out under cover,outside cold frame sowed 2 types of cauli's,1 cabbage,and leeks in another,soil was fairly warm as they have a cover on top,trying straight into the ground instead of trays ext,my thinking is they hopefully make better plants before their final place,as the root system will be better,it's a large outdoor seed tray with plank sides and a solid poly plastic top,
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Blimey - what haven't we done. Mr VVG went up the lotty and divided the two big beds, so now they are four and easier to manage. Autumn raspberries pruned. Rhubarb and asparagus beds mulched. Raspberry hedge mulched as well.
Back home, one half of the garden cleared of other people's cr@p, weeded for perennials (started to appear), hoed and mulch topped - looks so much better. All roses pruned - hands ripped to b*ggery. Tree peonies and ordinary peony shrubs starting to bud, so major cutting back on dead areas. Alchemilla clumps have had a major haircut each. Fed roses with bonemeal.
In the greenhouse I pricked out what feels like a thousand cabbage seedlings - more for the RSPCA sale. Broadies from January are up and out of the props. Beetroot through too. Two lengths of guttering filled with compost and Greenshaft pea in the V formation. Popped those into the poly on the hanging shelf. More tomatoes sown into pots.
Feel absolutely crackered, but the other half of the garden needs attack from me tomorrow. Anyone else feeling it after two solid days in the garden? I've done absolutely nothing else at all.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better...Albert Einstein
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