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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: Jimbo on November 26, 2005, 07:15:17
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This weekend, I'll be mostly digging weed, as I clear back my plot for the Spring. Yesterday's 1/2" of snow has now cleared in Cardiff, and I should be able to get a few hours in later this morning, taking care not to tread on the soil too much.
I might set off a few more dwarf broad beans in pots, to swap out for any 'no-shows' in my lottie. My garlic still is avoiding me, but I feel that talking to them obliges them to show up sooner or later!
Sunday could be my first Lottie bonfire - can't wait! Lots of dried-out perennial weed to burn off (the fruit of my labours, so far!), as well as some brambles I hoiked out last month.
Oh, and some more horse manure from the Stables!
What's happening elsewhere?
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This weekend I'll be......I'll be.....crikey havn't planned anything! Soooo...This weekend I'll be a lazy sod ;D
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This weekend will be catchup for me, having lost two weekends to frost, I need to get stuff sorted. I want to set off some beans in the greenhouse perhaps, and have artichokes, horseradish and asparagus to get to the greenhouse. A busy morning today I think, and tomorrow? Well I will just carry on ...
Derekthefox :D
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Icy. Go for it. Doesn't hurt to sit back and relax now and again.. Lorna
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Wardy Am I right in thinking you just LOVE housework (like me) ::) ::) ::) I was going gardening, have had lovely sunshine but then the sky opens up to give very heavy showers. Never mind can keep amused in the greenhouse.
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I'm with Icy this weekend, feet up and have go at finishing this (non-gardening) book that seems to have been avoiding me {:¬)#
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Wardy!! It tires me out just reading your posts!
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I was full of good intentions yesterday but I got a bit drunk last night and have so far achieved absolutely nothing.
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Just got the paper and it's got a free DVD of Gordon Ramsay's cooking Chrsitmassy fings .... soup looks interesting , hmmmm .... also noticed that Scotland V New Zealand is on the telly .... apologises to book and puts it back on shelf {:¬ (
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I've got that but I don't think it'll appeal; our lot won't eat Christmas pudding at all, and the standard fare would be condemned as 'not having taste' as it doesn't have lashings of chili. iur most memorable Christmas meal so far was the time Mina fell over in the kitchen just as I was finishing the cooking, broke her wrist, and we spent the next six hours in casualty.
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Robert. So a good time was had by one and all on Christmas day-------SORRY that wasn't nice, only joking. Did the meal ever get eaten? Although I wouldn't think Mina felt like eating. Lorna.
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Oh dear Wardy - doesn't sound good. I got shingles for Christmas one year which wasn't much fun!
Our weekend involves starting to decorate our 3rd bedroom to convert it into an office for the OH. Not very exciting. Am just off to the park with my 18 month old neice though ;D ;D
will get the paper on the way back Aiken, so will check out the soup recipe
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Well they weather has been superb, but things didn't quite go to plan. I got to the allotment ok, sorted the horseradish and started clearing the greenhouse, then a call was put out for volunteers to help unload a wagon of goods for the association stores. A bit of heavy graft got me really warm! There was a lot of stuff to shift, and even with 5 of us, it took just under an hour ... After that, it was time to go home ...
There is still tomorrow :D
Derekthefox :D
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The meal did get eaten in the end, but having got cold and been heated up and patched together it wasn't much.
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>:(
Well they say bad news comes in threes . . .
Got to Lottie, started bonfire, tucked into flask of tea, all going well.
1. Started on Bean-trench, and nearly dislocated my shoulder when I hit bedrock, 5" down!
2. Pulled back fleece, and started on what was to be my potato patch, to find that a previous occupant of allotment 159C had rotivated his green-house into my plot. Glass everywhere 3" down!!!
3. Pull back another fleece to dig over, to find rats-nest!
Now I have a few things to think about, as my lay-out for the Spring has all gone hay-wire. Think I might sit back, sup a cold one, and watch the Welsh game (Aitken - sorry about the Scotland result. Unlucky!).
Tomorrow HAS to be a better day . . .
:)
Frustrated, of Splott
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Robert. I will wish you a worry free Christmas for this year,
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As long as it's better than today. Mina's (my stepdaughter's) biological father invited himself for lunch with a couple of friends. He wouldn't let her come with her sister originally, when the US Navy was evacuating people from Freetown, and we had a dreadful business getting her here; it took three months, she nearly got caught in the fighting, and she'd already written him off by the time she got here. Since then, he's shown no interest in eight years. Then he suddenly arrived expecting her to sit on his knee. She's almost 14 and doesn't sit on anyone's knee, and she was most upset. The three of them then accused Namissa (my wife) of poisoning her mind against the guy, when the reality is that she made it up herself without any prompting at all. It all dissolved into major palaver and upset.
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Robert That is awful not only for Mina but for your whole family.. How upsetting especially as the guy hasn't bothered about her for eight years. He may be her biological father but to my mind he doesn't deserve the title. I can only say I wish you all peace and happiness for the future. Best wishes Lorna.
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To my mind he's a sperm donor not a father. He gave up a very good job indeed to go into politics, and in Sierra Leone that says it all. They're the biggest thieves around, it's all they go into it for.
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Marky-B,
You are, of course, right. I know that tomorrow, I will have a great day. But don't get me wrong, today was a good day, despite my rantings earlier. I got a huge amount of soil turned and weeded, I burnt off a pile of perennial weed the size of Blackpool Tower, I met three new people on my site (all lovely folk), AND I managed to end the day with a smile.
Tomorrow is ALWAYS a better day, because it is full of expectation and hope.
No-longer-Frustrated of Splott
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Things will work out, don't worry. And that guy won't be coming back here. If he can't understand that he needs to give Mina something if he wants to have a relationship with her, that's his problem.
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It sounds Jimbo, as if you have got the right attitude, ie tomorrow is always a better day ...
Derekthefox :D
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I hope at least everybody has a good Sunday. We have had sleet and rain showers all day with more forcast for tomorrow. So lottie work completely out. Had a bit of a Christmassy themed weekend instead. Did a bit of pottering and Christmas Shopping in Whitley Bay, admired the Town's new Christmas lights while we were out.
Tonight went to the local church and saw a local choir and orchestra perform Handels Messiah, with wine and mince pies - very nice evening, though it was on 3 hours so our bottoms are sore from the wooden seats, though we did take a cushion. Tomorrow it is all systems go for my Christmas cake. My children are coming over at 4 oclock to stir it and make a wish and stab the devil ritual, then cake goes in the oven for at least four hours. This time tomorrow it will be one more thing I can tick off my Christmas list.
Next weekend it is the St Nicholas Fair in Whitley Bay, the Town's lights will be switched on, children will carry lanterns and sing carols and it will be the start of the Northumbrian and French farmers Christmas market for the weekend in Town. We will also put up our home decorations and be out choosing a Christmas tree. Hope you all have a good weekend. :) busy_lizzie
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Drizzling here at the moment, so I am sluggish in my efforts to go down the lottie. Sounds like you had a pleasant day, busy lizzie, although the Christmassy theme is not my cup of tea. I would have really enjoyed listening to Handel though, nice refreshments too. Was it mulled wine? I am familiar with making a wish on the cake, but not stabbing the devil? Is this a northern custom?
Derekthefox :D
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Got up at 7am this morning to clean the kitchen, :o mad or what. It was a job I started earlier in the week, but never finished - I blame A4A ;D ;D it's a much nicer place to be, than down on my hands and knees cleaning floors.
Managed to visit lottie yesterday, and put over wintering pots in cold frame in my garden.
Will add more Brandy to Christmas cakes made ages ago, OH already eaten one ;D
Soon be Christmas, yippee, then Spring to look forward to.
Lily
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The weather here in Cardiff looks fine again, so me and SammyD should be okay for a few hours on our respective Lotties.
More digging, and might investigate rat-holes for occupants, with the Site-Manager's assistance, of course (Eric). Making good headway (despite debris in ground - thanks to the previous occupant of 159C, who rotivated his green-house into my ploy), even though I am a Newbie. Nearly half the plot cleared (need to fetch some more muck today).
Well, off to make flask, and get some food for the Robins.
Jimbo from Splott
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And I am having a rest... Since Friday we had here in the netherlands a heavy storm and a lot of rain at the coast ( the east got a lot of snow and icy roads).
Saterday and today dry but no work in the veg garden for me. Next week it is the feast of St. Nicolas and I can say that is the biggest feast of the year.
We expect St Nic and his helpers, the black Petes, to arrive Saterday afternoon and we get a lot of presents ( because we all have been very good last year!!) ;D But the last two weeks everybody have been mostly in his/her own room to wrap those presents. Not only in paper but to produce a charicter from wood, sowing or nitting takes a lot of time.
I still have a lot to do. Thinking of diner that evening ( 17 people) buying the last St. Nic's things, like fresh marsepan, sugar animals, pepernoten and chocolate letters etc and finish my St.Nic's surprise......
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O yes Wardy, it is, and it starts weeks before the big day.
Secret shopping, and rhyms very long, teasing each other in a very kind way. I am making an aeroplane but is getting out of hand, Iam afraid, two by 1 mtr, from wood with a present inside.
And it is not allowed, of course, to enter somebody's room and looking at the presents/ surprises, so no cleaning the rooms for me..... more time to be of to the garden ;D
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Well my Sunday morning session was more productive than yesterday, and very pleasant too. I now have half of my plot dug over, so I am pleased there. I removed the nylon(?) sheeting off my tent like greenhouse, so the winds don't take it away. Put my asparagus seedlings into large pots in the greenhouse, and also plunged my artichoke tubers into large pots of compost awaiting planting in March. I set off a seedtray of broad beans in the greenhouse, those that germinate will get potted up then planted out when suitable. Plus numerous 'pottering' tasks to fill the morning out. Meanwhile, a local church was having an open air service with a brass band playing ... this was wonderful, music while you garden !!!
I am taking sustenance now, in the form of pumpkin soup and toast ...
Derekthefox :D
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Spent the morning at my church, which means that I get landed with whatever needs doing and have to try to sort out any problems, then took my wife for a driving test after lunch. She failed again. Tonight the President of Conference was preaching at another church in the circuit, so for once I could go to a service and not have to do anything! With all that going on I never got near the plot.
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Robert Always another time for your wife. I know my Grandson was unhappy when he failed his first test. He was cross with himself. Better luck next time Mrs B.