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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #4580 on: March 15, 2011, 14:14:19 »
in record time planted 160 onions (only approx. 300 to go - almost one for every day should be good  ;D), sowed a packet of dwarf broad beans, sowed some more leeks, dug in the manure on 2 large beds, watered in the greenhouse and rushed home to have coffee in the sun baked garden - phew

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #4581 on: March 15, 2011, 17:28:25 »
Turned the soil with my cultivator and mixed in some dalek compost in, then put up my home made wigwam
Put the pallet hold up thingy onto the pea/bean patch and emptied some soil that I  had in a dustbin into it
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #4582 on: March 15, 2011, 17:44:40 »
Weeded the rockery & mowed the grass

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #4583 on: March 15, 2011, 18:24:17 »
planted a hazel at plot 2, took it ut of the garden where a squirrel had buried a nut  ;D
painted another 1 1/2 beds until my knees and neck gave out  ;D

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #4584 on: March 15, 2011, 22:35:45 »
went shopping for some more seeds,ended up buying more spuds while there

watered my seedlings,dug over the bonfire remains and prepared a few patches ready for flowers

also chopped up some old raised beds,using them as composters

tommorow i need wood stain,nails and a hoe  ;D ;D

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #4585 on: March 16, 2011, 10:04:06 »
so far, transplanted some of my baby moneymaker toms into larger pots, plus 5 burpless cucumbers out of the propagator into their own pots ;D

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #4586 on: March 16, 2011, 10:44:34 »
Got up early, drove to the place I get my manure from and filled my trailer, then caught bus to work cos it goes past the place.... will pick up my van and trailer on the way home.... saves towing the manure for 50 miles just to go to work..... I have a season ticket for the bus...

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #4587 on: March 16, 2011, 20:39:05 »
Dug. I ended up with a trayful of Chinese artichokes, from the few I planted last year. I just noticed that the first Gloria de Portugal seedling is up.

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #4588 on: March 16, 2011, 20:55:10 »
I put up a few more small bits of fence on the lottie
Sowed some tommies - Garden pearl, Tigerella and Roma
Sowed some marigolds
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #4589 on: March 16, 2011, 21:00:00 »
Not as much as i would have liked bloody van broke down! >:(

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #4590 on: March 16, 2011, 23:29:02 »
Nothing sadly..  :-X

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #4591 on: March 17, 2011, 13:49:41 »
Got up early, drove to the place I get my manure from and filled my trailer, then caught bus to work cos it goes past the place.... will pick up my van and trailer on the way home.... saves towing the manure for 50 miles just to go to work..... I have a season ticket for the bus...

chrisc

Serious result yesterday evening.... got a lift back with someone from work that saved me nearly an hour on getting back to the bus so I managed to get it to the plot and manure the rest of plot 2 that didn't get done a week adn a half ago.... thought that was going to be a job for the weekend, now it'll just be a rotavation job....

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #4592 on: March 17, 2011, 14:21:47 »
planted another 3kg of spuds, pentland javelin, planted out some monarda, tarragon and sowed some spring onions and had time to hoe a few areas - daffs out everywhere  :o seems early to me but lovely

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #4593 on: March 17, 2011, 18:58:21 »
Washed clay plant pots this morning.
Allotment  in afternoon and cleaned out the "girls", spread compost onto where spuds going, picked brussels and planted a replacement blueberry.


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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #4594 on: March 17, 2011, 19:02:06 »
My first home guard potatoes are up under the cloche in the hot bed  ;D
finished planting up the early potato bed, sowed some more radish and spring onions, we finished off the bed painting , weeded  :)

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #4595 on: March 17, 2011, 19:04:23 »
More digging.

Transplanted the first peas in groups of 3 and put bottle cloches over each group - Carruther's Purple Podded and Pink Blush sprinted away after germination.  More varieties are hardening off to follow soon.  

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #4596 on: March 17, 2011, 19:57:35 »
Cultivated soil and mixed in Dalek compost and put up another wigwam.   ;D
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #4597 on: March 17, 2011, 20:03:23 »
More diggin!

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #4598 on: March 17, 2011, 20:24:13 »
Dug. Checked the bees, which are thriving, with a lot of willow pollen coming in. Put up a new mini greenhouse.

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #4599 on: March 17, 2011, 21:22:14 »
pricked out alpine strawberries,dug over bits of new brassica patch and laid a cross shaped path across it,weeded a bit,sowed more broadbeans in modules as meeces have been nibbling the seedlings in the greenhouse. went back as an after thought and covered all the other seedlings to protect them.
when the going gets tough,the tough go digging

 

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