I'm back!... and up and running ...

[chriscross1966]

Hi folks, been away from the site a while mostly cos my health took a knock over the winter, but way better now and somehow everything seems to be coming along... the weeked has seen a couple of hundred plants potted on, tomatoes, brassicas and herbs mostly, a couple of hundred beans sown, the sloer climbers like Giganda and all the dwarfs... those climbers need the time, the dwarfs will be happy enough in pots if they have to stay in them,.. also managed to do the grand spring setup in the greenhouse, two big staging units moved in, theyre supposed to be 24 tray but i use them as 12's cos it gets the plants more light, add in 8 growbag trays on the floor and the shelves and i've plenty of space yet... the big propagator in there is currently mostly full of tomatoes that moved up into 6-cell half trays yesterday, plus a small trough of the dfb Speedie along with the yacon and oca.... the 8 house propagators have chillies and peppers, plus the beans...

[chriscross1966]

[pumkinlover]

I was thinking about you the other day Chris, good to see you back and hope you keep on the up!

[Squash64]

Glad to see that you are back, hope you are feeling much better now.

[goodlife]

 

[galina]

Yes, we missed you, glad you are better now - and well ahead of the game too.   

[small]

Glad to see you back, hope your health continues to improve. I reckon it's you deserve the credit for my success with 'poncy salads' this winter. Sounds like you're on a roll!

[woodypecks]

Great to see our Chriscross back and feeling better . Yes , here we go , here we go , here we go ! Isn't it good to be starting everything off again ..I spent most of yesterday in my garden . Putting up bean poles and planting out my baby cabbages ,under a cloche ...and weeding out the onion beds  .

[gazza1960]

Pleased to read your back and raring to go Chris.

Gazza

[antipodes]

Welcome back Chris! Sounds like a lot of hard work you've put in there!

[Paulines7]

Welcome back Chris.  I am pleased that you are feeling better now and able to get back to sowing and potting etc..   

[Jayb]

Lovely to see you back, very glad you are feeling better and gardening 

[chriscross1966]

Many thanks for all your kind best wishes :-)...

[chriscross1966]

Spuds went in last night, nearly 2 poles, 90 spuds, was a bit of a late finish thanks to "issues" getting the rotavator to start, it was proper dark by the end, but now they're done I don't have to worry about it any more, off to the hostpital tomorrow to have needles full of liquid nitrogen shoved in my eyelids...
Easter will see me potting up beans and sowing the cucurbits.... also moving o9ut the cabbagey things for hardening off alongside the onions adn getting the first batch (already out) into the ground...

[amphibian]

Hello CC and welcome back - I too am back after a stint away (no allotment) I take it from your name and avatar that you are the same person that seems to know lots of people I know on Facebook - you may once have known me as Metatron from my Glasto days - but I also see you know my Friend Goz too.

[Jayb]

Spuds went in last night, nearly 2 poles, 90 spuds, was a bit of a late finish thanks to "issues" getting the rotavator to start, it was proper dark by the end, but now they're done I don't have to worry about it any more

Amazing job 

[chriscross1966]

Spuds went in last night, nearly 2 poles, 90 spuds, was a bit of a late finish thanks to "issues" getting the rotavator to start, it was proper dark by the end, but now they're done I don't have to worry about it any more

Amazing job 

Wouldn't have had a hope without the Howard 400 though.... two passes to get it rotored to full depth, then put the potato trencher on and trench , lay in the spuds  and come up with a way of working out where the markers will need to go at the end, then (by now in darkness lit by overspill from sports centrea) carefully rotoring down the ridges with the trencher still on to ridge over the seed potatoes... then (with a torch) putting the markers in...

Lady Chrystl, Sherine (first earlies)
Kestrel, Blue Kestrel, Kerrs Pink, Great Western Rodent (2nd earlies)
Markies, Cara, Pink Fir Apple, Kondor, Arran Victory, Sarpo Mira, Vitelotte (mains)

[chriscross1966]

Hello CC and welcome back - I too am back after a stint away (no allotment) I take it from your name and avatar that you are the same person that seems to know lots of people I know on Facebook - you may once have known me as Metatron from my Glasto days - but I also see you know my Friend Goz too.

I remember you :D, believe it or not there's an annual "Old Glasto Board" meetup over Mayday bank holiday at a campsite near Stonehenge... that one started in 2005 (Originally near Marlboro, then for a long time near Bath), I get to see a lot of the old faces both at that meet and also at festivals.... been oddly like family watching Bubbles and Fluffs grow up.....