What a glorious day which can only mean one thing PLOT TIME. Dug up a black current from home, most of the garden is concrete and it would seem the thin border of soil down the side of the fence isn't much better. The black current I had planted hadn't done very well at all, hardly any root development. I had 4 others in pots so I loaded them all into the car and headed off down the plot. Lots of digging and nettle root wrestling later and the currents have a new home in my new fruit area next to my new Aldi fruit trees. Fingers crossed the weather is as good tomorrow for my last day off work.
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Guess what I did today - want a clue? It begins with du and ends in iggin! I also played a game of weeeeeee din.
Seriously, I am still trying to get the last big bed ready to cover with some cloches - just have a quarter left for tomorrow.I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Thomas A. Edison
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In the last couple of days I have planted 2 fruit trees (cherry and plum), 2 white current bushes and 3 raspberry bushes. It got dark and I had to pack up so I still have 2 more raspberries to plant. I was hoping that the sun would come out again today..... fingers crossed!
I have also sown 32 flower seeds into r00trainer modules for OH. He is adamant that the allotment is my domain, so I let him do all the digging etc in the gardens. He sometimes asks me which are plants and which are weeds, tho mostly he just composts the lot! The seeds are on the windowsill, so he will get to see what they look like when they sprout and when he plants them out (maybe he won't compost these).
You'll see from another post that I've been doing a bit of jiggery pokery with a blowaway in the greenhouse, so onions etc have been moved there.
Otherwise I've been pottering and getting organised on the plot with digging, covering some areas I shall need to dig later re-organising shed and greenhouse around etc.
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Actually got around to doing a bit of gardening today. It was bright and sunny so decided to find a place to plant my shallots at the allotment.
I have a bed 4 feet wide by 12 feet long which was covered with cardboard,hoss muck and leaves. I pulled up the few tiny bits of cardboard that hadn't rotted down and gave the whole bed a light tickle with a heart shaped spade. 10 minutes is all it took, I then raked it roughly level.
Planted half the bed with pink shallots and half with white shallots all spaced about 10 inch apart in both directions.
It was really nice to get on the land and start planting stuff.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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Spent lots of money!
Potted the 2 Blueberry 'sticks ' in ericacious Compost, just put the in large pots for now, thought that might be easier.
Pulled up the Kale, really the white fly were so bad didn't really fancy it.
Dug over that bed, which is now ready for my new strawberries, due to arrive soon.
Keep disturbing the Comfrey, cos I forget it's there and keep digging it up, hope it makes it.
Prepared a chilli for later.DottyR
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Picked up a kilo of onion sets from the lottie shop on sunday so managed a couple of hours in the greenhouse putting them in cell trays of home make compost to start the roots going.
Garden still covered in snow and ice and soil frozen solid so kept to the paths.
A bit melts by day and freezes at night.
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Originally posted by NatalieCooke View PostI'm planning on sowing my tomato seeds tomorrow. I'm a too early? The packs says between Jan & March.
Sorry to keep asking questions guys!Last edited by Penellype; 11-02-2015, 09:01 PM.A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy
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^^^ depends on whether you have somewhere light and warm to keep the seedlings after they germinate.
Snap -PenellypeLast edited by veggiechicken; 11-02-2015, 09:02 PM.
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Yes it's been an unusually dry Winter Martin, I went down to check on the pond this morning & there wasn't a single drop of water entering it from the stream. I can't remember when it last rained.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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