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  • I thought it was another sign that you are getting old, GL

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    • today i put it a few more onion sets. I still have about 15 that I have nowhere to put. Not sure what to do with them, seems a shame to just chuck 'em. At best I could probably squeeze in another 8 I reckon.

      I cannot believe how mild it is out though. It's like September weather or somethign.

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      • Got my delivery of raspberries and strawbs yesterday - and have amazed myself by having the beds already for them, therefore today was a simple task of just planting them all.

        I'm going to try this forward planning more often - it makes things so much easier.

        Although, I did slip on a path coming home and got covered in mud - which quickly got rid of my smugness.
        .......because you're thinking of putting the kettle on and making a pot of tea perhaps, you old weirdo. (Veggie Chicken - 25/01/18)

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        • Originally posted by Snow View Post
          today i put it a few more onion sets. I still have about 15 that I have nowhere to put. Not sure what to do with them, seems a shame to just chuck 'em. At best I could probably squeeze in another 8 I reckon.
          Put them in a pot, Snow.................a flower pot, not a cooking pot

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          • Originally posted by veggiechicken View Post
            Put them in a pot, Snow.................a flower pot, not a cooking pot
            Or a seed tray until you find somewhere more permanent..
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            • Decided it was time to replace the autumn bliss raspberries which were not happy in their pot - they only achieved 2ft high and no fruit this year and were clearly far too crowded. I went to the garden centre to see if they had, by any chance, a thornless gooseberry (Captivator). To my surprise they did, so I've now got that on my patio . I hope this one lasts longer than the previous gooseberry bush I had which was completely defoliated by sawfly.

              Of course, being at the garden centre I couldn't resist looking at the seeds, and came home with several packets, as well as a bag of vermiculite which I have been meaning to get for a while.

              Now to sow some winter lettuce
              A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy

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              • Cleaned up and weeded the beds in the big greenhouse after lighting the woodburner first to make it 'comfortable' indoors!
                Pulled some beetroot and took it home along with onions and eggs. Pruned back some achillia which was getting wayward and blocking my path. Chopped the heads off the sunflowers and fed them to the chooks for a treat.
                One of the allotment holders is getting rid of half a dozen old chooks which have stopped laying so I said I would re house them (rather than they get the chop!) in snadge's retirement home for chooks!
                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)

                Diversify & prosper


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                • Dug up the last of the spuds - picasso (cracking bakers) - and despite the gloomy prediction from Richard-three-plots-down that they would be full of slugs, they appear, on the whole, to be ok.

                  Took down the pea wigwams, saving a load of sweet pea pods for seed.

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                  • Had a few hours on't plot!

                    "bladdy freezing"

                    But got a good return! Not the best! But a meal!



                    The "Sprouts" are looking good! So a "Christmas Day" harvest is on toe!

                    They were looking that good, I posted the picture twice!!.....
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                    "Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad"

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                    • Originally posted by Snadger View Post
                      One of the allotment holders is getting rid of half a dozen old chooks which have stopped laying so I said I would re house them (rather than they get the chop!) in snadge's retirement home for chooks!
                      St Snadger................
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                      • Planted 60 privet bushes. My aching arms....

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                        • Remember that dining room we were going to emulsion...we didn't, went shopping instead!
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                          • Rained so I didn't need to water
                            Making the most of saying it rained, since I don't get much chance to mention it usually.

                            Good timing as I mulched under the apple trees, they have loads of small apples forming, but last week started dropping some of the very small ones. Figure it's heat stress.

                            Should go out and see if the quince trees in the paddock are going to be good this year. Last season nothing from any fruit trees.
                            Ali

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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

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                            • - it's finally stopped raining, so I cut our tiny lawn back into a neat circle, and used the trimmings to fill in the bare patches, where the dogs pee

                              - collected another 10 sacks of autumn leaves
                              - picked another carrier bag of mixed kale & chard to wash, chop & freeze
                              All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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                              • You just chop and freeze the chard Twosheds? I got sick of cooking it by the ton last time. Might be more my speed.
                                Ali

                                My blog: feral007.com/countrylife/

                                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

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