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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: Tee Gee on December 19, 2011, 10:48:00

Title: Finished
Post by: Tee Gee on December 19, 2011, 10:48:00

Thats it for this year!

I have completed my winter digging,emptied the greenhouses, purchased my seeds, prepared my sowing and planting out plan.

All that remains to do now is;   pass on my seasons greetings to you all, then it will be a case of getting my feet up until around February.

Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year to you all.....Tg

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Post by: Ellen K on December 19, 2011, 11:02:11

Merry Christmas One and All  :)

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Post by: woodypecks on December 20, 2011, 10:20:16

Well done you ! Thanks for such a brilliant website...has helped and inspired me lots . Have a very merry Christmas and a happy new year . All the best . Debbie   :)

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Post by: antipodes on December 20, 2011, 12:52:54

Very Merry Christmas to you too TeeGee!!!

I wish I could say the same as you! Still, not too bad this year: I have the manure on the plot and one quarter has been spread. I still have to cut the raspberries and trim the  gooseberries, I need to rebuild my composter that just got destroyed in a storm (give me a chance to move it and have a brilliant squash patch on the old site in the summer!). The seeds are ordered, the garlic is planted and I just need to manure and then cover the onion patch ready for february and the first shallots. Then we will be in business.

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Post by: shirlton on December 20, 2011, 13:18:23

We are just going up tomorrow to lift the last of the carrots and parsnips to store and then it will be just a case of popping up there if we've a mind just check that all is well.
I would like to thank you too TeeGee for your website and your book that I got last year.
Have a  nice Christmas and a very peaceful new Year

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Post by: jimtheworzel on December 20, 2011, 17:07:28

Merry xmas  Tee Gee  ;D

like you its all ready for spring, so getting my feet up till then
have a Happy New year...regards  Jim

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Post by: green lily on December 20, 2011, 17:33:49

A very happy Christmas and New Year to everyone and thanks you so much for such a fantastic web site and lovely people. I look forward to the next growing season although I've lots and lots to do before Feb. Good job the poly is just out the back door ;D

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Post by: plainleaf on December 22, 2011, 17:03:45

so lets see your planting out plan tee gee

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Post by: Tee Gee on December 22, 2011, 17:32:50

Your wish is my command;

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or go here to magnify it;

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd27/tgalmanac/001.jpg (http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd27/tgalmanac/001.jpg)

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Post by: katynewbie on December 22, 2011, 17:37:04

That was probably the best reply to a posted question I have ever seen! Well done Tee Gee

 ;)

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Post by: plainleaf on December 22, 2011, 18:57:38

so teegee what do the numbers in top row mean

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Post by: Poolcue on December 22, 2011, 19:09:36

Probably that he has 2 plots

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Post by: plainleaf on December 22, 2011, 19:47:36

i meant the number 2.4x8.9

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Post by: ceres on December 22, 2011, 19:59:27

Metres, those things you don't have in the USA   ;)

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Post by: davyw1 on December 22, 2011, 20:03:41

Quote from: ceres on December 22, 2011, 19:59:27

Metres, those things you don't have in the USA   ;)

WHAT  you mean to say we have some thing they don,t have.........marvelous boody marvelous

Title: Re: Finished
Post by: plainleaf on December 22, 2011, 20:38:06

ceres we have meters in usa we just don't use them. it seem to be same in uk
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16245391

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Post by: pumkinlover on December 22, 2011, 20:43:19

I'm making a quilt at the moment and it is lovely because quilting is still measured in inches! ;D ;D

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Post by: Ninnyscrops. on December 22, 2011, 22:58:41

Quote from: Tee Gee on December 19, 2011, 10:48:00

Thats it for this year..................... then it will be a case of getting my feet up until around February.

Nearly there, but sprouts and kale to pick on Christmas Eve.

A very Merry Christmas to you TG and all here too.

Ninnyscrops
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Post by: ceres on December 23, 2011, 02:27:10

Quote from: plainleaf on December 22, 2011, 20:38:06

ceres we have meters in usa we just don't use them. it seem to be same in uk
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16245391

Not quite.  In the UK, we're obliged by law to use metric measures in certain circumstances and there have been generations of children gone through school who have been taught nothing else.  It's only old farts like me who were taught Imperial and used it for a large part  of our lives who still think in Imperial.

Postscript - just been reading Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_States), the USA is one of only 3 countries in the world that doesn't officially use or mandate a metric system of measurement.  The other 2 are Myanmar and Liberia, great company, eh!  Seems like a couple of half-hearted abortive attempts to go metric have been tried since the 1970s.

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Post by: Duke Ellington on December 23, 2011, 08:04:20

Merry Christmas Tee Gee ;D ;D ;D
I am so happy that you are happy about the next growing season ;)

Duke

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Post by: galina on December 23, 2011, 09:05:19

Thank you Tee Gee for the lovely bouquet and your Christmas wishes. 

It is nice to be able to say, all finished!  Never happens here, though  :)  Just a different way of gardening, I guess.  Can't dig about half, because there are still a lot of crops there, most cossetted under fleece (which needs rearranging after every so often).  Still have a good amount of winter radish, endive and real lettuce, rocket and lamb's lettuce, apart from the PSB, kales, leeks, parsnips and other crops that stay in the ground and get harvested as and when.  Overwintering spring onions and Babington leeks are still going strong and cloches, greenhouse and cold frame are growing orientals and salad crops.  I am making full use of microclimates in the garden for winter salad crops and whilst there are losses in really cold weather, there are more successes.  There is a lot of feathery Greek cress under one cloche, that will make pretty Christmas starter plate decorations. I hope to be able to keep the garden salad crops going for as long as possible.  There will be a meagre time, but as soon as light levels and temperatures improve again, everything will pick up and seeds sown a while ago, will sprout.  There are as many ways as there are gardeners.  :)

I loved reading your worked out and detailed planting plan.  Thank you very much.  You are so organised!  Enjoy putting your feet up!  I also like reading your webpage.

Best Christmas wishes to you and yours and everybody at A4A!

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Post by: goodlife on December 23, 2011, 10:16:40

Finished?...on going and never ending here..GH is getting already full with all sorts in modules and pot.. ::) ;D
But that plan does look proper job..couldn't done better me self..on a ripped out piece of cardboard.. :-X ;D

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Post by: Digeroo on December 23, 2011, 11:09:51

I am really impressed by how organised you are.  I also have a lot of crops still on going and quite a lot of green manure.  But all the areas earmarked for early crops are covered with mulch and ready to go.   

I am digging the pits for the courgettes and squashes and filling them with biomatter, but there are a few months to go before these will be needed so plenty of time to get them sorted.  So I am really ahead of myself this year. 

Looking forward to a Xmas dinner with loads of my own fresh veg.  With a lack of frost it will be easy to dig them up this year this year.   

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Post by: Tee Gee on December 23, 2011, 11:32:16

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so teegee what do the numbers in top row mean

The top row is as has been said; I have two plots i.e. Plots 1 & 2

The year is for the benefit of filing the pages to use in my rotation programme in future years.

Next row is the size of the beds, lower down it is the length of the greenhouses.

x8 etc means I wil plant eight plants across the bed.

Top right etc is the particular beds in the greenhouses & tunnel.

The blank bed is usually used for overspill,quick growing plants then ultimately the following years garlic & winter onions.

XXX is just to seperate plot 1 from plot 2 on the plan.

I hope that answers your questions.

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Post by: Robert_Brenchley on December 23, 2011, 19:46:08

I started off at primary school, with imperial measures, and then had metric in secondary school. I can cope with either, but I still have to translate temperatures into Fahrenheit before they mean very much.

I'm never finished, but all I have to do for Christmas is life some oca.