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sheddie

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #840 on: May 05, 2008, 22:10:31 »
Planted half a dozen raspberry canes that someone kinldy gave me and put some roundup down - again..3rd time - and the nettles are just laughing at me >:(
When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #841 on: May 05, 2008, 22:18:07 »
Attacked the couch grass once more.......
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #842 on: May 06, 2008, 17:31:30 »
Dug out last of old carrots.  ;D ;D ;D
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #843 on: May 06, 2008, 18:18:32 »
put up canes by the toms, sank the plastic bottles next to them, planted out some sunflowers with plastic bottle collars around, weeded the bl**dy sycamore seedlings out of the cabbage bed  ;D

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #844 on: May 06, 2008, 19:45:10 »
Too tired to type so just going to say LOTS ;D

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #845 on: May 06, 2008, 21:57:41 »
hi all, this morning my son and i made a raised bed for Father in Law, planted some peas, runner beans, broad beans & lettuce, sweetpeas for him, that i had in modules, as he had a stroke 6 months ago, then this after noon we went to my plot and rotavated it again so i can start to transplant all my growing veg that i have growing in modules tomorrow, and  we got sunburnt ::) ::) :'( ;D
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #846 on: May 07, 2008, 08:08:22 »
Hello

Now my nephew (Mr Fuchsia Nut) has gone home i still have a few roses to plant and some beans also a little piece of trellis work up to do i can't do a lot as my shoulder is paining me badly so slowly does it.

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #847 on: May 07, 2008, 08:19:29 »
Take it easy Brogusblue. Hope you can at least enjoy the sunshine.

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #848 on: May 07, 2008, 17:00:20 »
Did loads of bits and pieces, weeding, watered in the nematodes....and every time I sat down for a drink in the hot sun, someone would come past and say "just admiring it today then?"  ::) ;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 #849 on: May 07, 2008, 17:22:10 »
Layed a brick path between bed 3 and 4, watered the compost heap, Ho Ho Hoed the spud beds (I love hoeing when its as dry as this).
Removed a few handfulls of couch grass. Forgot my water and overdid it a bit really but i made some good progress.

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #850 on: May 07, 2008, 19:30:17 »
uncovered the early spuds, doing really well, hosed the poly down, went for more plants for the second plant sale at the weekend, weeded in the fruit cage  ;D

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #851 on: May 07, 2008, 19:31:46 »
I'll have to go and admire it too Deb..............  ;D

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #852 on: May 07, 2008, 21:22:31 »
went up to the lotty today and had a nice time just watering knowing i could not do anything about the state of it was very freing :)

12 watering cans later i have watered everything that needed it and having not been to the plot in 2 days i am amazed at how much things have grown. It also amazes me that the roundup does not seam to have made a difference ;(

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #853 on: May 07, 2008, 21:53:37 »
Attacked the couch grass again.....and look what I found!  My jap onions, the very first things I planted up the lottie

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #854 on: May 08, 2008, 07:58:33 »
When you harvest them, dig the couch out again. Hammer it every chance you get, use black plastic on fallow ground, you do get there in the end. Fortuntely the roots are strong enough not to break apart as you dig them out, so with patience you can get the whole thing, as long as there isn't too much left after you dig it.

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #855 on: May 08, 2008, 08:16:07 »



Planted peas. sweet peas .spinach. put grass cuttings around potatoes.
Tried to get the edges of the allotment  under control [failed] worked solid for four hours, went home had a bath, and collapsed in the chair .
Same again tomorrow.
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #856 on: May 08, 2008, 08:46:37 »
Hello

Just been out in the garden what a lovely morning just watered the garden and the veg and took some photo's of what's in flower









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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #857 on: May 08, 2008, 15:56:10 »
lovely photos, broguesblue..gives me a kick after all the manky weather..
planted out celeriac and tied in the tomatoes in the poly, 1st set of flowers starting  ;D
put the beans that need re-potting to one side for tomorrow

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #858 on: May 08, 2008, 18:50:17 »
Yes, Super pics indeed thanks ;D ;D :) :)

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #859 on: May 08, 2008, 22:10:42 »
well today i managed to do a little digging and cleared a 1/3 of one bed not great but its a start. Did a bit of watering and finaly I can see the round up is starting to weeken some of the weeds.

 

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