Whats been Happening[Easter]

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Well its nearly over for another year. Easter!!

Did manage to dig and Manure a Trench for the Leeks. Later potted up some Balcony Fuchias from Germany[ Lidl]

Put the Bean Poles in and Transplanted the Beans plus some extra Seeds.

Visited Groenrijk Lips Garden Centre in Nistelrode on the
Motor....bought Lavendar and Heather and Saxafraga

Swopped the Motor for the   [ Trap Tractor]  went with the Wife to our Local Garden Centre..............oh very expensive this year.

Put the new plants into the Front Garden

So What have you done !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lets have the news and pleasant reports  ;)

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[Doris_Pinks]

Unfortunately nothing, cos I have been feeling icky  :'(  :'(  :'(  :'( 
Oh the plans I had............................but on the plus side, I managed to read 3 books! :)

[autumn leaf]

Well, this morning I washed a chicken's bottom - one of our hens is a black cochin, very fluffy bottom and feathered feet which make her look as if she is wearing moon boots.  Anyway, her rear end was not a pretty sight as one of the drawbacks of so many feathers is a claggy bottom.  She coped well with the indignity of it all and OH helped to dry her off with the hairdryer.  She skipped away to join the others, damp but a great deal lighter :)
After that we cleaned out the chicken houses.  Then I topped up all the garden bird feeders, planted some sweetpea seeds (hope I'm not too late with these but have to get the timing right as we are off to Berlin for a short break and don't want to leave too many jobs for our tame chicken minder to take on as well)
Now I'm catching up on my email and reading what everyone else has been up to.
Haven 't we been lucky with the weather this weekend!
Back to work tomorrow, stiff knees permitting, and then off to Berlin on Weds - can't wait.

[cleo]

Well spring sprung in West Deeping today,just in from the first full day of the season.

Masses of pricking out-one can get fed up with tomatoes!!,a load of digging,and sowed carrots and planted the Jerusalem Artichokes.

Stephan

[Palustris]

Misty morning, but nice now. Spent half the morning building a hyper-tufa wall in the Alpine house (more on that later in another thread elsewhere).
Then did a little weeding in the Bee border.
Then started removing the weeds from an old pond where the liner has been punctured by one plant or other, so we are going to turn it into a bog garden to grow Primula in. 8 barrow loads of Iris foetida rhizomes and still more to come out!
After dinner we will start again

[Jesse]

Been a busy weekend at home with nothing done on the allotment but will have some time this week to visit the allotment.

Helped OH cut about 6ft off the top of our hedgerow (hasn't been done for 5 years so was well overdue for a trim). Then had the enormous mountain of branches to shred, some of them got burned and have kept the ashes for my tomato plants later in the summer.

Cleaned out the hen house, looks like a palace once again. I am leaving some eggs in the nest box now in the hope that one of them will go broody so we can hatch some chicks.

Weeded the garden, a breeze by comparison to our allotment! Planted out the rest of my sweetpeas. Mowed the lawn, if you could call it that, with the hedgerow being to high over the past few years we have loads of moss growing in there now so that's going to be another job, raking it all out and sowing some new seed in the bare patches. Should get lots of light now that the hedge is shorter.

Sowed loads of flower seeds, most of which will be grown on the allotment for cut flowers. Discovered that Gerbera seeds are expensive, packet of about 15 seeds cost £2.54! Hope they all germinate successfully at that price.

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Doris_Pinks :o
So sorry to hear that you were feeling icky.....hope that you are feeling a little better.

Gardening Books I hope!! Ha ha  Get well soon     Mike

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Autumn Leaf :)

Have a Nice Break in Germany...................... 8)

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Stephen :)

West Deeping !!  Sounds Nice something like the Last of the Summer Wine Setting!!

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Palustris ;)

Loads  of work going on there..............Hope you enjoyed your Lunch :D

Nice idea a Bog Garden 8)

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Jesseveve :D

THats a whole lot of Ash for your Tomatoes Haha
Sounds like a job well done there!!

Hope your Lucky with the chooks [ The Young Ones]

I wish I had more light the people next Door well across the way have Trees about  30/35 Metres high!! We get whats left of the Sun about 3.0 in the Afternoon!!

Going to have a look to see if I can find what Gerbera Are!!

                                 ;D ;D ;D

[Doris_Pinks]

Mike, 3 very good novels actually........with gardening books interspersed naturally! ;D

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Well Done so Glad to Hear the Gardening Bit Haha ;)

[Mrs Ava]

Have had mum over so took advantage.  Mark telephoned a lady who stables horses to see if we could have some poo, and what do you know, I now have a compost heap full to the brim with lovely hot horse manure, no straw or shavings, all from the field, so lovely and clean!  She told me as we had a boot full she has another pile that is a couple of years old and it is all mine next visit!  What a good bank holiday Monday!

Sorry you are still poorly DP.  This is lingering isn't it.  There has been a lot of it at the kids school and some have been off for 2 weeks.  Not good.  Hope you feel better soon.

Cleaning a chooks bum on bank holiday Monday...well why not!  ;D

Would love a lump of your iris for our pond Eric.  I have just purchased a yellow water lilly and a bullrush for the pond and I still think it needs more plants.

All in all, busy peeps!

[Lady Cosmos]

Has not been good weather at all here, Early in the morning we had heavy rain and it has been very misty all day long.  Only 7 degr. brrrr cold.... :'(
Good weather to stay indoors and have a fire and... a nice roast tonight :P :P

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E.J Emma Jane

Busy Busy Poo!!! Ha Ha Hope you had a Good Easter as wellHa Ha

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LC :D

Warm here  weve had some rain.... but its was Mild today on the Trap Tractor

Enjoy your Meal tonight 8)

[Carol]

Sorry to hear you been icky Doris, wonder if its the same 'virus' I have.  According to Mother she has never seen me so bad with a 'cold',  OH agrees with her for once!!!

As for the weather,  well it has been horrendous here since last night with non stop rain.  The roads, fields and everything is flooded, some bloomin' Easter weather. 

Glad the rest of you managed to get some work done on your lottys and gardens.  I would need 'waders' to go into mine.

Cheers

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Carol :)
Hope your better now too!!

Also hope that the weather improves for you
so that you can get out and about in the Lottie or Garden.

[simon404]

Got my first spuds in, sowed carrots and parsnips. Stroked my seeds (thanks for the reminder  :)).