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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #4000 on: July 25, 2010, 18:40:47 »
Went to lottie to do "quick" watering job in GHs..6 hrs later...; dugged up some potatoes, picked courgettes, cumbers, toms, plums and beans, peas bit of weeding, feeding, pruning,,and yes watering...lots of watering..whoaa..were did the day go?...and then I only needed to do a bit of cooking.. ::)

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #4001 on: July 25, 2010, 18:47:42 »
Dug up the first row of Lady Cristal spuds. 2 buckets so not a bad crop.

3 corgies, (2 normal 1 huge!) lot's of beans, raspberries, strawberries, gooseberries, (alpine strawbs too), First turnip.

Then noticed the rabbit in the plot next door's water bottle was on the floor. Had to fight the chickens to get to it and fill it up again.  >:(

I can't understand why people have animals and don't pop up everyday to look after them especially in this warm weather.  >:( >:(

Rant over.  :D

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #4002 on: July 25, 2010, 19:28:19 »
Discovered the pond again! Iris and lily leaves had taken over so had a good clear out. The dragonflies have hatched and long gone and the lily leaves had no snail eggs on so a good time to do it.



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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #4003 on: July 29, 2010, 15:38:45 »
trying to do some tidying up but most beds on 3 plots are still really full - harvested a huge amount of dwarf and climbing beans, the last of the strawberries, pounds of black, red and white currants, beetroot, spied some super courgettes and patty pans that are almost ready

picked some sweet peas that smell divine  :)

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #4004 on: July 29, 2010, 20:11:14 »
WATERED, and received some onions in fact a carrier bag of onions from my next plot neighbour Sid, as my onions have been very poor this year, he's the man.    ;D ;D ;D
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #4005 on: July 29, 2010, 22:09:09 »
pulled out the calibrese that had gone to seed-now wondering what to put in the vacant ground........
Pulled first cabbage, ever!

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #4006 on: July 30, 2010, 10:26:41 »
pulled out the calibrese that had gone to seed-now wondering what to put in the vacant ground........
Pulled first cabbage, ever!

a lot of my calabrese has gone to seed  :( but I am only cutting the main stem off as I am hoping that it will sprout smaller off shoots  - living in hope

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #4007 on: August 03, 2010, 20:36:56 »
Holy moly, this thread is LONG, lol. 

Anyway, spent the best part of the last couple of days chopping down a very big 'weed' tree as my husband calls it, which has been left to grow completely out of hand and has practically taken over our garden (and some of next doors  :-[) Anyway, tis cut almost to the base now and we've been having a good old shred up to get rid of it (those shredders are great!)

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #4008 on: August 04, 2010, 15:01:48 »
I popped over last night to harvest some dwarf beans and a cucumber, as I was picking the dwarf beans I noticed some other beans on another wigwam, they were flattish and red and green in colour I picked a meals worth but can't remember what type they were.    ???      ;D ;D ;D
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #4009 on: August 29, 2010, 14:38:30 »
I have just harvested carrots, kestrels, springies, beetroot, kale, runners and borlotti's.   ;D ;D ;D
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #4010 on: August 29, 2010, 16:01:13 »
Absolutely nothing but I cooked up some veg pulled during the week for freezing.

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #4011 on: August 29, 2010, 18:44:39 »
harvested 40  :o peaches, some fallen off while we were away, I'm going to cut out the nasty bits and poach them in syrup,harvested sweetcorn,tons of tomatoes,including a white beauty, green zebra and 2 orange bananas and peppers,  ;D

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #4012 on: August 29, 2010, 21:54:46 »
Just spent two days in Essex dismantling a greenhouse and bringing it home... bit of a trek from Swindon (had to stay in a campsite for a couple of nights) but worth it for a 20x10 Robinsons for 300 quid......

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #4013 on: August 29, 2010, 22:56:14 »
Tackled the laurel hedge in the front garden that seemed to want more of my front border than I was willing to let it have.

Pawed over the show schedule for next Saturday having inspected the veg at the plot yesterday.

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #4014 on: August 29, 2010, 23:05:25 »
had a water fight bliss ;D

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #4015 on: August 30, 2010, 08:25:32 »
Hiya tim k, long time no speak!! how's the arm?
You couldn't make it up!

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #4016 on: August 30, 2010, 19:58:19 »
Dug up a small bag's worth of Kestrels, a few springies and four beetroot.    ;D ;D ;D
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #4017 on: August 31, 2010, 17:09:28 »
Dug up more Kestrels and emptied a few tubs of rocket.  ;D ;D ;D
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #4018 on: August 31, 2010, 17:48:57 »
Yesterday and today I have dug up 4 barrow-loads of weeds, picked loads of raspberries, spread some hops and sown fenugreek (as green manure) and sprayed brassicas with rhubarb liquid. Also sowed lettuce, spinach, senshyu onions and spinach in modules at home.

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #4019 on: September 01, 2010, 18:49:01 »
Watered Cara spuds, parsnips, sweetcorn, pumpkins, squash, celery and celeriac.
Planted out cabbages.
 ;D ;D ;D
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