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Borlotti

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5020 on: June 02, 2011, 22:34:27 »
Silybum is milk thistle, just googled it as thought it was one of Kev's jokes, but it does exist.

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5021 on: June 03, 2011, 09:30:39 »
planted out celeriac, assembled plastic greenhouse, weeding and more weeding, tied up sweet peas against netting, ate the only strawberry, looked at red currents - will be ready to harvest on saturday - looks like I have a busy weekend ahead.  :)

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5022 on: June 03, 2011, 22:17:20 »
Potted up masses of cucurbits, and did a bit of watering where recent plantings are wilting in the drought.

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5023 on: June 04, 2011, 11:59:24 »
 :o :o :o
Looked around the garden to see what space I have and found very little to go round. I shall have to do some weeding and remove some plants that have gone over so as to get more in.
With twenty or so more trays of plants and ten seed plug trays to be potted up before they go in, where is it all going to fit??? :-[
I just go overboard with growing stuff and think that a small market garden project will get shot of all these plants. ::)
If push comes to shove I shall be giving the stuff away and try not to over do it next year.

Got them back now to put some tread on them

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5024 on: June 04, 2011, 12:23:37 »
went to  alnwick garden - so didnt get a lot done but was inspired by what i saw there  :)
potted up my 4 very healthy aubergine plants, planted more garlic but am not expecting much - too late perhaps?
watered & weeded

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5025 on: June 04, 2011, 14:50:06 »
Put the heating on
When you wake up on a morning say "good morning world" and be grateful

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5026 on: June 04, 2011, 16:04:22 »
Is it cold up't north Davy?

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5027 on: June 05, 2011, 15:26:06 »
Silybum is milk thistle, just googled it as thought it was one of Kev's jokes, but it does exist.

Okay, so what do you do with milk thistle? I know you can feed it to horses to protect their liver and keep it healthy, but what else is it good for?

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5028 on: June 05, 2011, 17:21:33 »
Cut the grass to stop the seed heads, planted some plants and dug over part of the border.

Got them back now to put some tread on them

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5029 on: June 05, 2011, 18:06:52 »
GeeGee I didn't know milk thistle was good for horses livers but there is a herbal remedy of MT that is good for human livers. I also have it on good authority that guinea pigs like it too.

Borlotti

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5030 on: June 05, 2011, 18:21:14 »
Ask, Kev, he is a lovely man, was going to say 'know it all', or a silly bum.  Just waiting for the rude reply.

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5031 on: June 05, 2011, 18:29:59 »
Strimmed,mowed,weeded  filled water butts and watered put out some brassicas collected some more money for a bulk order of water butts being delivered tomorrow.

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5032 on: June 05, 2011, 18:57:12 »
Planted out a wigwam of Robinson peas. One of my favourites.

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5033 on: June 05, 2011, 18:57:21 »
Put the fire back on
When you wake up on a morning say "good morning world" and be grateful

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5034 on: June 05, 2011, 19:04:32 »
Watered the lottie, raining now
Sowed more silybum  :P
Transplanted some Kale
The silybum seeds were sent to me by Georgie and I have planted some out next to our new fence as grow to a quite big bushy, prickly plant, they have been nibbled by the slug/snails even though they have grown quite prickly already, a good smidging of pellets have gone down.
No rude or silly jokes, although I will be naming the first fully grown one Sandra.   :P :P :P
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5035 on: June 05, 2011, 22:44:19 »
Weeded, planted out some more courgettes, weeded, harvested the first of my overwintered Jermor shallots, weeded, picked some strawberries, weeded, cut the grass on the rough bit of the allotment where I'm going to put the butternut squash out, and.............weeded some more! ;D
If it's not pouring with rain, I'm either in the garden or at the lottie! Probably still there in the rain as well TBH....🥴

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5036 on: June 06, 2011, 09:52:32 »
Saturday, I weeded, sowed some barlotti beans and butternut squash to see how I get on...planted out the tomotoes in my baby plastic greenhouse accidently brought a cucumber plant, picked over a kilo of red currents, watered, picked salad leaves, corriander and mint, watered some more, thinned out the beetroot, watered some more, got sunburnt even with factor 30 went home, made red current jelly and collapsed.

Sunday, did bugger all apart from thank my lucky stars that it rained... ;D ;D

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5037 on: June 07, 2011, 20:37:41 »
Watered the spuds with a comfrey feed.   ;D ;D ;D
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5038 on: June 08, 2011, 09:55:33 »
Watered the spuds with a comfrey feed.   ;D ;D ;D

Kev,  didn't know you had to feed the spuds? do I have to feed everything?  I have been feeding my tomatoes but nothing else....help what do I need to get  :-\  ???

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5039 on: June 08, 2011, 10:23:16 »
tied up and hung my onions and pottered around the pumpkin



 

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