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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #3320 on: March 14, 2010, 15:04:08 »
Put the finishing touches to a raised bed that i built yesterday.
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #3321 on: March 14, 2010, 16:33:04 »
Have managed to rotavate one plot ready to start putting in potatoes at the end of the month  :) :)    I have been given a fence for my 2nd plot so need to put that up

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #3322 on: March 14, 2010, 16:57:17 »
Really pleased with this weekend got loads of jobs done but just waiting for the ground to warm up for a  Easter planting session, :)

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #3323 on: March 14, 2010, 19:19:42 »
I planted 5 rows of sturon onions, 44 in a row.    ;D ;D ;D
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #3324 on: March 14, 2010, 19:44:13 »
Took the top off the lawn at home, cleaned gulleys and grubbed weeds out with my marvelous SPEED WEEDER ;D
(Big plug for my big bro).....garden looks a treat now. Shame our buyers have now bought else where. ::) The thought of another summer here fills me with delight.  :)
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #3325 on: March 15, 2010, 18:23:18 »
Are you saying your big bro is fast at weeding, or does he have something to do with this:

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #3326 on: March 15, 2010, 19:36:39 »

Planted out some onions in the back garden that I started off in modules
Stared at my celeriac that has come back
Transplanted some AYR cauli's
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #3327 on: March 15, 2010, 19:46:19 »
transplanted some burpless cucumbers, california wonder, yolo(thanks to my secret santa), and paprika peppers..oxheart, black krim and garden pearl tomatoes..sowed some romanesco , planting spuds tomorrow  ;D

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #3328 on: March 15, 2010, 21:56:33 »
Moved all the fuchsia plants and cuttings to No 1 greenhouse and all the potted-on seedlings to No 2 greenhouse. New greenhouse heater (I only requested potting-on compost for Mother day!) to keep them company  ;)

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #3329 on: March 15, 2010, 22:17:44 »
Re-potted lily bulbs, been tinkering in the greenhouse and watching plants grow..1 pea has germinated! ;D..been doing log edging rolls  :-\..a job that I wish I never volunteered to do..(shop ones weren't right kind ::))
and after that I had barbeque  ;D..for job well done..

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #3330 on: March 15, 2010, 22:20:18 »
Re-potted lily bulbs, been tinkering in the greenhouse and watching plants grow..1 pea has germinated! ;D..been doing log edging rolls  :-\..a job that I wish I never volunteered to do..(shop ones weren't right kind ::))
and after that I had barbeque  ;D..for job well done..

That's got to be the first BBQ of the year goodlife, well done!   :)

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #3331 on: March 15, 2010, 22:52:09 »
Went out with a machete and pith helmet to attack a very large, and thanks to the snow, very droopy Phormium :o ::) Ended up cutting outside leaves and encircling the rest with wire to make it look better. Don't think this will do in the long term but it'll have to do whilst I have a think. Also massacred 2 hebes which I'd let get too leggy. Now knackered and off to bed.
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #3332 on: March 15, 2010, 23:00:34 »
Trundled autumn leaves to mulch the spuds.

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #3333 on: March 15, 2010, 23:18:05 »
Robert, what advatage is there to the spuds by mulching them with autumn leaves?

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #3334 on: March 15, 2010, 23:48:01 »
First time down the plot in about 2 months,so had a bit of a tidy up, put 3 rows a Rocket in,dug a few leeks up. In the 2 months i have not been there the rats have moved in, spent most of the day putting back the compost the rats had dug out me bins,will go back tomorrow and give them all another good turn over and put some bait down.

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #3335 on: March 16, 2010, 15:25:10 »
Planted my early potatoes under fleece, made some more willow wigwams, hoed everywhere, watered my transplanted strawberries....and sat in the sunshine for a bit! Very pleasant! ;D
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #3336 on: March 16, 2010, 15:45:19 »
Robert, what advatage is there to the spuds by mulching them with autumn leaves?

Sinbad

The worms take them down and it feeds the soil. Meanwhile, they cover up the spuds, which often form immediately below the mulch, and if I put on enough, stops them greening. I'd rather use grass cuttings, which have plenty of nitrogen, but I don't have any yet.

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #3337 on: March 16, 2010, 15:50:59 »
Well, not today, but over the weekend I cleared out the pots on the patio and moved the ones with bulbs to the front, and swept up the leaves from the patio for mulch for the allotment. Then had DH drag all the crud (spent soil, etc) to the allotment for putting in the compost bins. On Sunday, we all went en famille to the lottie and dug. Spread leaf mulch, planted some onions and generally got things done! My crocuses and narcissi are up in front and I'm feeling very productive lately! Spuds next weekend. Yay spring!  ;D
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #3338 on: March 16, 2010, 15:53:29 »
moved lots of plants I've grown for the plant sale out of our polytunnel into the communal greenhouse..my poly sighed a sigh of relief  ;D

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #3339 on: March 16, 2010, 16:04:34 »
Dug a patch of ground to cloche up for some beetroot. Cleared somewhere else for some strawberries that didn't get planted at the end of the year. Did some weeding.The sun makes ya feel great don t it. ;D
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