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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #1120 on: June 21, 2008, 22:25:24 »
Nothing, I've been marking GCSE's all day apart from doing a bit of shopping.

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #1121 on: June 22, 2008, 11:32:28 »
stupidly shut the greenhouse door and now we have gales blowing - it always falls out  >:(

but.... planted yet more brassicas, squashes, outdoor toms, flowers here and there, doing mental gymnastics about where everything else is going to go, happens every year  ;D

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #1122 on: June 22, 2008, 16:04:14 »
planted out winter cabbage, sowed spring onions, ostergrusse radish and bcylindra beetroot,
ray mulched up all the peppers and tomatoes with our compost,
picked strawberries, carrots, beetroot, pickling onions for drying, some of the bolted red onions to cook with tonight  :)

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #1123 on: June 22, 2008, 16:11:56 »
90 Higher German papers down, 74 to go .... :( :'(

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #1124 on: June 22, 2008, 19:19:09 »
I had the family round to lunch today - so got up really early so i could sow some more beetroot (Chioggia from a seed swap and my fave Boltardy), turnip (snowball), Swede (invitation) and at the top ;lottie a few rows of carrots for the winter. The ones I did in June and July last year were really good and lasted through to March.

Also weighted the plastic covering on the tomato house again - I thought we weren't supposed to have gales in mid summer  ;D

Oh and the lunch went well  :) I even managed to do pudding this time (Tiramisu and a Pear and Almond Tart) rather than buy from the shop.

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #1125 on: June 22, 2008, 20:43:54 »
Picked loads of strawberries. Dug up loads of bindweed (again!)

Took up all of the overwintering onions. They've done so well, does anyone have any tips on the best way of storing them?

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #1126 on: June 23, 2008, 14:00:01 »
Went down to the lotty this morning and picked a few beetroot and had a weeding session which will be the last visit for two and a half week off to the Isle of wight on Wednesday, Byeeeeeeeeeeeeee :)

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #1127 on: June 23, 2008, 14:48:33 »


Been in bed ill for three days, hoping to go to the allotment tomorrow don't know what I will find after all the strong winds over the last few days, hope my bean sticks are still standing.  I am on the edge of Warwickshire in the midlands any one else suffered here in the high winds.
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #1128 on: June 23, 2008, 17:13:38 »
Hello

I am trying not to do a lot because of my shoulder, But my neighbours cats are giving me grief see post in pets corner i did a bit of light weeding but the bindweed is giving me hell this year i have never known it so bad i have several neighbours clearing there gardens and the weeds are bad i have fabric and woodchip on my borders but it still bad.

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #1129 on: June 23, 2008, 19:06:41 »
bridgehouse hope you are soon feeling better and Brogusblue take care.

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #1130 on: June 23, 2008, 19:30:23 »
bridgehouse and Brogusblue hugs to you both.

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #1131 on: June 23, 2008, 20:21:24 »
90 Higher German papers down, 74 to go .... :( :'(

I see I'm not the only examiner round here!

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #1132 on: June 23, 2008, 20:32:51 »
90 Higher German papers down, 74 to go .... :( :'(

I see I'm not the only examiner round here!

No, plenty of insane people on here just not ones that are insane that way :)

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #1133 on: June 23, 2008, 20:55:11 »
At least we move the young folk on to university entrance Louise. Anyway I only have 33 left to mark which i will hopefully complete tomorrow when i can get back to the real world of weeding on the lottie! :P

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #1134 on: June 23, 2008, 21:19:50 »
At least we move the young folk on to university entrance Louise. Anyway I only have 33 left to mark which i will hopefully complete tomorrow when i can get back to the real world of weeding on the lottie! :P

I know you work hard :) i will leave you to your weeds and then you can come and do mine :)

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #1135 on: June 23, 2008, 23:43:36 »
I hand pollinated my first pumpkin (jack oh lantern) of the year ;D

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #1136 on: June 24, 2008, 00:09:03 »
Scripts, don't talk to me about scripts....  :-X

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #1137 on: June 24, 2008, 20:02:41 »
Watered, then harvested onions, peas, spuds, cherrys, raspberrys, strawberrys, radishes and broad beans.  :P :P :P       ;D ;D ;D
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #1138 on: June 24, 2008, 20:49:14 »
Wish i could say i have done some gardening over the weekend but this had to come first
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #1139 on: June 24, 2008, 20:52:23 »
emptied the compost bin so's we could finish planting leeks, planted out lettuce, pinched out the runner beans, tied the pumpkins up to their frames, weeded, again, and picked lots of lovely stuff  ;D

 

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