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We had a lovely day here. I brought another bed into cultivation, put up a debris netting brassica tunnel and planted 4 early potatoes as an experiment in climate change effectiveness. Pictures on my blog!
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The wind had damaged 1 of my cloches, overturned the one that was protecting the sprouting broccoli and dumped a homeless chair. There was quite a few shed roof felt needing repairing, judging by the hammers knocking on site! But it was great to be there with the sun shining!
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Broke my favourite stainless steel spade digging out - hold that - trying to dig out a couple of rhubarb crowns for transplanting. Frost forecast for tonight so wanted them exposed to that but not happening.Comment
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You have my sympathy, breaking a favourite tool is almost like losing a relative, and in some cases worse.Originally posted by Aberdeenplotter View Postphoto album of my garden in my profile http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...my+garden.htmlComment
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Removed the plastic sheet mulch fom under the Bramley tree - exposed some sorry looking daffodil leaves I'd fogotton about, they are very yellow! Pruned other apple tree. Sat in the sun and ate a banana - bliss!
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By, that is some tough Rhubarb AP.............Originally posted by Aberdeenplotter View Post
sigpic“Gorillas are very intelligent, but they don't have to be as delicate as chimps -- they can just smash open the termite nest,”
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Well, after filling car with petrol, I went 'shopping' came back with loads of gardening stuff, including a 'potting shelf tray', a plastic flexible 'thing' to keep unopened bags of compost, anemone bulbs, fleece, poppy seeds, coriander seeds, 3', pots (more), compost, redcurrant, 3 gooseberry ( from Poundshop), 1 looks dead already, but hardly worth taking it back, plus other bits and bobs.
That's it now, please don't let me out again!DottyRComment
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Spent a couple of hours in the pigging rain emptying a builders bag of home made chippings onto paths .sigpic“Gorillas are very intelligent, but they don't have to be as delicate as chimps -- they can just smash open the termite nest,”
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Timely reminder BM, Cheers! Must get intouch with "Tree Surgeon" buddy to drop me a trailer full of chipping off to top up paths once it stops bladdy raining and thing's dry out a little!
May be some time!
Fell lucky on Friday, returned to depot and just caught one of the lads making his way to the skip with a few bags of seed potatoes!
"Not On My Watch"
Rescued 110 Charlotte (Won't use that many) so my spoils shall be shared, 40 Orla and 40 Maris Peer!
Did local "Potato Day" Saturday, got there a little later than I wanted to as my gardening buddy got roped in to working Sat morning, so the Sarpo Mira I was sourcing to do this year had all but gone! Just the "Scrag Ends" left
So opted for Pinks Fir! Was a good day actually! Always nice to have a natter with like minded folk!
Then Sunday got most of what I wanted stuck in modules to chit, started 48 Sturton sets n 48 Red Baron sets in modules too, so can safely say my 2014 growing season has begun!
"Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad"Comment
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Its rained most of the day so the only garden thing I did was to put a couple of netting cloches over the area where I planted my raspberry canes because theres a lot of bare soil to tempt the local kitties.Location....East Midlands.Comment
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Lovely day yesterday. Dug several bucketfuls of compost into the tomato bed, shredded (by hand) a load of geranium roots that I dug up the other day (for compost), topped up the cocoashell mulch round the pieris, planted 50 Red Baron onion sets and moved the paving slab near the broccoli up an inch and back 4 inches to make space for the growhouse there when the broccoli has gone.
I wonder why my back aches today...
Tomorrow's job is to put the soil that the geraniums were in into the raised bed which arrived this morning
A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard NimoyComment
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This evening I looked at the garden for about a minute and a half, mentally totting up all the jobs I wasn't in the mood to do. I then toddled off up the street and ate fish, chips and mushy peas
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Today was spent looking longingly out the window at the garden and all the things I could be doing in between bits of housework
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Replaced the well loved cover for the 4TB. Had become torn and no longer fit for purpose. New one looks like a bit too big uniform
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Spent the afternoon digging out brambles. It was dry when I went out, then it rained and rained and rained and the water ran off my hair, down my neck, and goodness knows where else.
It was warm rain though - not that cold chilly stuff we've had, that seems to freeze wherever it lands. So I kept on digging until the fork was so muddy that it slid out my hands.
The mud seems to have filled up every wrinkle and crease on my hands and they look like a road map full of B roads. I have scrubbed them but its made little difference............and yes, I was wearing gloves
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