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saddad

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5180 on: August 03, 2011, 21:56:27 »
Just come in.... it went dark...  :'(
Lots of watering... another cucumber, courgette, and tomato cull...
planted out some beetroot and beans.. shelled some peas for saving and 1kg of Magnum Bonum for freezing...  :)

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5181 on: August 03, 2011, 22:06:32 »
noticed that one of my damson trees are nearly ready, so i picked a few ripe ones today but they were so-so tasting. are any of your damsons ready yet? a lotti friend gifted me some of his eating apples, but they still had a bit of a tart taste to them...

watered today for an hour, but then we had a bit of rain so i've been told (been at work all day so didn't noticed). said it'll be a downpour tomorrow - let's hope so!! it's been so dry here in notts and getting sunburned watering for more than a hour each time isn't good for me! :-\

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5182 on: August 04, 2011, 09:22:41 »
Picked some tomatoes (some had blossom end rot - bummer), TWO cucumbers, parsley, rocket and chives for the salad and a green Black Beauty courgette. And ate a few raspberries off the bush  ;D ;D
2012 - Snow in February, non-stop rain till July. Blight and rot are rife. Thieving voles cause strife. But first runner beans and lots of greens. Follow an English allotment in urban France: http://roos-and-camembert.blogspot.com

Digeroo

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5183 on: August 04, 2011, 09:25:22 »
Walked around the wet lawn in barefeet.

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5184 on: August 05, 2011, 22:15:56 »
Cut 8 courgettes.  Must make some courgette bread tomorrow.  And maybe courgette soup.  ::)

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5185 on: August 05, 2011, 23:01:35 »
Picked. runner beans, parsnips, tomatoes, lettuce,marrow, pumpkins,fennel and a few herbs!! What a great year !!! :)

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5186 on: August 06, 2011, 17:35:55 »
picked a trug full of discovery apples to give away, 2 to process into puree and juice, made 7 lbs of damson jam, brought home 9 sweet corn cobs, first of the season, yum  ;D

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5187 on: August 07, 2011, 15:58:52 »
Dug up Kestrels and bagged
Harvested Carrot's, Runners, Peas, beetroot,
Given apples and Victoria plums
Borrowed a big swede
Weeded and Watered
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5188 on: August 07, 2011, 20:03:32 »
Picked (more) courgettes, pattypans and dug up the Cara spuds.

Tasted a plum for readiness (was a BAD idea - sour as anything).

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5189 on: August 08, 2011, 09:35:48 »
Dug up our first Roosters...very yummy too,
harvested all of the beetroot, picket some marrows, chillies, runner beans and sweet peas, watered the tomatoes and did a bit of weeding  :)

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5190 on: August 08, 2011, 14:56:35 »
cut the grass pathes,pick sweetcorn and cabbages, carrots,watered everything ,we had a coffee break and i picked wild flower seeds for next year,shard my veg with my nabour aged 98.

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5191 on: August 08, 2011, 15:06:05 »
i picked some tomatoes and some carol Leenstra benas my first one ( thanks jayb for the seeds) think those beans are going to be loaded, the plants are so prollific.

Wtaered everything one for it to rains seconds after I got in, oh well there can never be too much water hey.

Down the lottie with the boys later tomorrow see how thats doing.

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5192 on: August 08, 2011, 16:23:22 »
Weeded around my leeks.
Cut back the foliage on my potatoes because they didn't look healthy.
Picked French and runner beans, a cucumber, and some carrots oh and a few potatoes for a vegetable curry.
At home I potted on some basil and sowed some overwintering onion seed in modules.

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5193 on: August 08, 2011, 21:05:06 »
Laid some well rotted manure on the area's I've weeded and hoed over the weekend.

Watered the greenhouse.

Picked 1 red tomato  ::)

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5194 on: August 08, 2011, 21:07:01 »
Dug potatoes, picked runner beans (again!) , picked spinach and cut a couple of marrows.  :)

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5195 on: August 08, 2011, 21:13:18 »
Harvested the rest of my onions bar 4 which still have greenery on them
A lot of weeding
Mixed home compost in dalek
Listened to police sirens
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5196 on: August 09, 2011, 12:33:44 »
Harvested french beans, courgettes, ridge cucumbers, tomatoes, potatoes, raspberries and early leeks. As usual no time to weed, feed or dig over the potato patch for leeks to go in.

cornykev

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5197 on: August 09, 2011, 19:56:47 »
Finished weeding old onion patch
Planted more leeks
Harvested carrots and a few figs
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5198 on: August 09, 2011, 20:06:59 »
Weeded the front garden.
Cut all the grass at the back.
Dug a row of potatoes.
Picked a few more plums (& ate them!).
Watered all the pots.

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5199 on: August 12, 2011, 16:50:06 »
we made frames for our winter cabbage and cawli,picked more courgetts,beans,and watered,need tea and bicy.

 

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