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cornykev

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #1800 on: February 16, 2009, 20:37:26 »
Piccies Shirl.  ;D ;D ;D
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #1801 on: February 16, 2009, 21:27:14 »
Went to new garden hoping to finish digging one side of plot.Just a few feet to go when I hit the water pipe running from a shed to the outside tap down the garden.Water spraying everywhere no stop tap to be found.15 miles to nearest builders merchants.We  finally repaired  it .Why do people only bury pipes a few inches and cut across plots?No need to water for a few days.
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #1802 on: February 16, 2009, 23:29:15 »
Pruned the bramley apple, broken branch.  Don't no when that happen.  Cut back the grape vine.  Its trained over pergola so only pruned what I could reach.  Ground still very wet here.  Need a weeks worth of todays weather before going on the lottie.

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #1803 on: February 16, 2009, 23:52:43 »
Sorry to hear that Robinaber, we are very meticulous about where our Pipes go, esp. as I have to pay the water bills!  :-X

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #1804 on: February 17, 2009, 17:37:23 »
Heres the evidence that Tone has planted his tatties. They are nice and warm under the polythene and fleece
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #1805 on: February 17, 2009, 17:41:50 »
Here are pics of the 2 plots so far this year. Will have to put them on separate cos they won't go on together
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #1806 on: February 17, 2009, 17:42:25 »
When I get old I don't want people thinking
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #1807 on: February 17, 2009, 17:43:20 »
Had a good day digging a couple of beds over and getting rid of brassica's the pigeons had feasted on.  The soil was surprisingly good in places to dig, nice and crumbly.

Feel as though I am on par for the spring now.

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #1808 on: February 17, 2009, 17:44:30 »
looks really good Shirl.

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #1809 on: February 17, 2009, 19:05:48 »
hi there  ;D
i managed to do a few hours down the lottie. i did alot of digging and finally have one bed ready for what ever i deside to put in there, the other beds are roughly dug, but still got lots of stones and weeds to pull out.  i had 2 very checky magpies watching every thing i was doing, think they liked the look of the fresh soil, lol  :)
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #1810 on: February 17, 2009, 19:24:20 »
Spuds you must get a picture of the magpies I've never seen checked ones.  ;) Shirl looking good, hang on   :o  is that a plug I can leading to the cold frame.   :o        ;D ;D ;D   :-*
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #1811 on: February 17, 2009, 19:26:08 »
Well our Tracy said "all ya need now is a heater". Are we going to dig them up on the same day or what????
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #1812 on: February 17, 2009, 19:27:35 »
What day do reckon.  :-\      ;D ;D ;D
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #1813 on: February 17, 2009, 20:07:09 »
transplanted chinese leaves into fish boxes, plus leeks into rootrainers, raked a couple of beds to a fine tilth, weeded the onion bed, transplanted some 'freebie' limnanthes (poached egg plant) that were growing in the rhubarb bed  ;D

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #1814 on: February 18, 2009, 09:25:27 »
Innit usually 12 weeks for earlies, will leave it for you to decide as you have the most free time ;D
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #1815 on: February 18, 2009, 14:55:23 »
planted some pre-chitted parsnips, covered them with fleece, they reckon more frost after tomorrow .
covering the competition spuds tomorrow  ;D

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #1816 on: February 18, 2009, 15:04:20 »
No plot today. Went to see Mom and roasted the rest of the parsnips ready for the freezer. Going tomorrow hopefully. I'm going to put a parsnip back into the ground to get some seed for next year. Is it too early to do that or should I have left one in over winter.
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #1817 on: February 18, 2009, 18:17:49 »
FREE TIME  :o Lets see up at 5.10am work at 6.00am, hard days work, listening to everyones moans and groans all day, come home look after the kids, cook the dinner then on the puter organising compo's and of to bed bearly dragging myself up the stairs.  :'(  :'(  :'(     ;D ;D ;D
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #1818 on: February 18, 2009, 18:20:19 »
Oh I forgot cultivated the soil for the spuds, raked brassica area and put 8 shallots in pots indoors.  ;D ;D ;D
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #1819 on: February 18, 2009, 18:59:29 »
Ya still avent said when we get the spuds up. After all yer the gaffer kev :)
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                             I want em saying
                    "Oh Crap! Whats she up to now ?"

 

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