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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: BAGGY on March 24, 2005, 23:06:20
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Got tomorrow off and will be spending all day on the lotty (whether permitting). Just read through things I may have missed and am all fired up for a hard days'work. Is it very obvious that I have nothing else to do at the mo ? Just come home from pigging out. It's too early for sleep (and I'm too full up still), naff all on the box ad the OH is snoring on the sofa. Roll on tomorrow. Sun, light breeze, soil to dig.....this is the life. Hooray for allotments!
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yes Baggy how exciting eh. Sometimes when I talk like that non growers think I have lost the plot-nice to see a kindred spirit. I will also be on mine and like a child on Christmas eve will find it hard to sleep tonight haha. Enjoy every min.
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Me too (i.e. stupid, childish excitement). Every morning I am getting up and running to whatever window sill to see what has germinated in the night. ;D The forecast for tomorrow is sunny altho I have probably jinxed that now. :P I nearly broke my back on Wednesday sorting out raised beds, but its easy work from now on, just sowing and planting. 8)
My mum thinks I'm crackers because I have a Word document with a big list of things sown and dates, growing conditions, time to germinate etc, etc. I told her at least I don't have 31 varieties of tomato... yet. ;) but there is plenty of time for all that in years to come. Tee-hee.
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raring to go, raring to go - think I will miss out the sleep bit :)
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I'm going to try and organise my first ever BBQ up the lottie this weekend in the hope to lure "Der family" into bringing a few gardening tools and put them to good use ;D
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Going to sort out the borders today and incorporate some veggy stuff among the flower beds.
Checked my germinating seeds and cuttings and found the delphiniums, which I brought in onto the windowsills are a little droopy!? Don't know why - Will chuck them if they dont pick up.
;D :D
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hope you all have a productive weekend~fingers & toes crossed for good weather for all of you,rain forecast all weekend my end :( :(
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Pants ! I'm stuck at home and cant get a lift to the lotty ! OH is building a roof on legs in the garden. Kind of a verandah for outside the back door. Potential for seed growing me thinks. So I am off to sulk in the greenhouse.
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Went to lottie at 7.30 this morning, got lots done. 200 onions in, 2 rows of potatoes and completing loads of jobs that I've been putting off for ages. Now having a well deserved chilled cider ;D
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Been to my plot today :) :) :) Hurray! Didn't do what I wanted to do as back hurt straight away and I only put some broken glass in a bin!!! Anyway kept going very slowly and did a bit more glass collecting. then I planted three new variegated privets in the gaps in the hedge and fed and watered them which was at least something achieved. Put some coffee round me onion bed. Picked some rubbish up. Checked out compost bin which has a huge flipping dock growin in it. Turned my leaf compost a bit. I had wanted to get my manure under my plastic mulch but no barrow - my OH was using it to mix concrete as he's preparing a base for the shed. Yippee! I came home after about 2 hours and am going back now to collect my bits and pieces I left behind. Will take cardboard with me as I'm using it under my spuds (no dig method) Wardy
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My first season on the allotment - and with posts here saying Good Friday was a traditional day for planting potatoes, that's what I did. Misty early then nice and sunny (in Sussex). But with Easter being a variable date, how does that work?
Saw an Easter bunny on my patch first thing - under my upturned wheelbarrow, possibly hiding from the resident foxes on the allotment site. It sat still for a few seconds then darted off, hopping over my raised bed edging. Anyway, cos I don't have that much spare time, I planted all my spuds, first earlies, second earlies and main crop - was this right? only time will tell. Will start some seeds next.
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I have put two rows (approx 40) first earlies in today. Rained on a few times but that is part of the fun. Feeling happy and R & R'd
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We all seem to have worked really hard today ! thanks to the gorgeous weather !
Ani, I am on my third glass of red wine ! Can't beat it ! And going very cheap at Unwins this week end ! ;D
Just planted my clematis and took some more cuttings of something ??? :P :o Not sure what it is. Put some sunflower seeds in a tub and waiting patiently.
Plants all round doing very well - especially the clematis and roses (all climbers).
Hope everyone is having fun ! :D ;D ;)
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Me too-this is going to be a busy weekend. That is if I can move anything-health farms???-OK the massages etc were fun but the gym!!-never worked so hard for many the year.
Stephan
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hubby did some serious diging while i was chatting with other plot holders, pottering about, watering in new(ish) plants and generally day dreamed a bit in the sunshine
ah, this must be the good life, surely?
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It wasn't very sunny here - most disappointing. More sore from all the digging on Wednesday today than Thursday. :P So, just a little potting and pottering. :)
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Arrived at allotment at 8.30am - no one else in house was stirring, had site all to myself for an hour or so.
Planted 2 1/2 rows early potatoes; weeded bed for main potatoes, (but resisted temptation to put them in for another week or two); planted last garlic bulb - late I know, but let's see what happens; weeded main garlic bed - alephant garlic planted a month ago is now through, last November's garlic going great guns; sowed onion seeds under plastic bottles; checked shallots - two are now green!; sowed two more rows carrots, two rows beetroot, two more rows parsnips; weeded fruit beds - where have all those weeds come from?; home for lunch - haddock, jacket spuds and salad; back to allotment; dug celery trench; turned compost heap; came home as Mrs Wivvles off to work; planted dwarf carrots (from Grow Your Own magazine) in containers; sowed herb seeds; transplanted parsley, brushed seedlings; loooooong hooooot bath; made tea; logged on and here I am!
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WOW Wivvles, you've been busy today !!
It's amazing what a ray of sunshine can do to you !!
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wonderful to see so many people enjoying their day today, now this should be shown on national news-perhaps cheer some people up. Simple pleasures-great-made me smile reading this. ;D
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I changed a lot of nappies today and the washing machine broke down :-\
But Saturday morning is allotment morning ;D
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Me too (i.e. stupid, childish excitement). Every morning I am getting up and running to whatever window sill to see what has germinated in the night. ;D The forecast for tomorrow is sunny altho I have probably jinxed that now. :P I nearly broke my back on Wednesday sorting out raised beds, but its easy work from now on, just sowing and planting. 8)
My mum thinks I'm crackers because I have a Word document with a big list of things sown and dates, growing conditions, time to germinate etc, etc. I told her at least I don't have 31 varieties of tomato... yet. ;) but there is plenty of time for all that in years to come. Tee-hee.
If your crackers Charlotte, then so am I. :)
Coming on here has made me sew far more around the house than ever done, just dreading all the potting up now and were to keep it all. I will have toms growing out of my ears, I only had 4 seedings before reading this forum. You lot, have a lot to answer for.
It's been a great week down the lottie, getting lots of seeds in and the peas are just popping up, got them nicely under fleece this year, to stop them mices eating them.
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You are all making me wildly jealous, I am stuck at home with a tummy bug! :'( :'( :'( (and the weather out there is GLORIOUS!
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Sorry to hear about your tum Doris - I am through sulking and have begged a lift to the lotty today. I will not miss out for a second day.
Already have 2 half rows each of carrots and beetroot in and some early spuds we did last weekend. The broad bean look like they have just been randomly thrown on the ground as the mice have indiscriminately pick out some here and there (why can't they systematically eat a whole row - not bits an pieces - I hate them meeces). Today we will be prettying up the flower bit of the half plot and doing some other bits and bobs.
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Was going to go to plot this morning to mooch about but it's raining quite hard at the mo (Derbyshire) Hope it brightens up as I need to lay more black plastic ;D
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I've just come back from a fabulous trip to Barcelona, where I've wanted to visit for ages. But all the time I was there I just kept thinking " Can't wait to get back to the lotty". :D Mr Dumpling thinks I'm obsessed but other people just don't understand.
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Well we are having gorgeous weather here in Herts and dug in some food in the borders, ready for the new arrivals.
Can't wait for the seeds to germinate and the seedlings to grow larger !
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Spent good Friday down the lottee ;D
Cool start which made digging bareable and glorious sun in late afternoon 8)
Planted 1st & 2nd potts, carrots, destroyed weeds and mulched
Wife actually allowed me to stay for the whole day :D
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I've just come back from a fabulous trip to Barcelona, where I've wanted to visit for ages. But all the time I was there I just kept thinking " Can't wait to get back to the lotty". :D Mr Dumpling thinks I'm obsessed but other people just don't understand.
Glad you enjoyed your holiday in Spain, I don't think I would have thought too much of my lottie while out there, so maybe you are obsessed :o ;D a few more cerveza's or vino's rojo should have put your mind at rest ;D
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I'm not ready for tomorrow. I'm off from Derbyshire to Southampton to visit my son. Not packed yet. Well, that's to say I've not put the corkscrew in my handbag ;D
Taking the dog with us which should be an experience (probably one which should be missed) ;D