Get it done while the weather holds.
Oh has ours well under way, I tore some ligaments in my back a couple of weeks ago....
:-[
Wish mine looked like that!
Mine does look similar but the big pieces has dried like concrete - how can I break it down to a fine tilth
will I have to rotovate it?
Ours is coming along nicely also. I love this time of year, when you start to see everything coming to life again, and all the hard work digging and cultivating, turning my plots into a maze of freshly turned earth, and all my hardier crops in the ground, and growing stronger by the day! I love it! (All except the man a couple of plots over, who thinks lesbians are evil, and should be shot - or alternatively, what we need is a "real man" to show us the error of our ways! He even offered to be that man! lol)
I think I have greenhouse envy!!! ;)
Oh and the digging looks good too!
cor Tim - can I rent you by the hour ? Looks fabulous.
Quote from: Blue Bird on March 28, 2007, 18:37:17
Mine does look similar but the big pieces has dried like concrete - how can I break it down to a fine tilth
will I have to rotovate it?
You only need a tilth in the precise spot where you put a seed. Break the lumps down just there with a kitchen fork if you have to. My fiorst year I planted among all sorts of lumps, and most things came up anyway. Keep adding organic matter and the soil structure soon gets better.
Looks lovely Tim - wish mine looked like that.....beginning to feel very inadequate walking round our site as every other plot looks like yours :(.....even more so after getting a "please bring your plot up to standard" letter from the council asking if I want to keep it :-[
knbsallotment, is he one of those awful pink round sweaty men who think he is so cool, go tell him to eat a manure brick what a creep, XX Jeannine
Jeannine - I think you know him!! He's round, sweaty, and very bald! Wears a very hypocritical "Jesus loves us all" shirt - apparently, he interprets that as "Jesus loves us all as long as we are arrogant, annoying, theiving, and creepy, and as long as we like to intimidate women and kill animals for fun, and as long as we are not short, fat, gay, unmariied, not english and all agree wiht everything creepy men say!" lol. Told me his fantasy was to see a young woman have his baby! YUK YUK YUK! Don't you hate that sort?
I say live and let live, as long as you are not harming others!
Tim, when you've finished with my photos, can I have them back?
;D ;D ;D
knsballotment...I have a formula for grading men by colour, On day I will publish it.
Pink they are the very worst for me,mostly overweight a bit always sweaty,thin on top. feels he is wonderful, they always have wet lips and the tongue comes out of the corner when he is a talking, sprays when talking and stands too close,this a Pink man
I will tell you others one day..
It is sad that he is so ignorant that he cannot see beyond some ones sexuality and look at what the person ticks on ,the persond heart,I have gay son and at first mean people bothered me but not anymore,my son told me when they crawl out from under a stone they are so blinded from the light that they only see shades of dark.
Tell him to push off XX Jeannine
Better yet, direct him to the nearest branch of 'Lives-R-Us'.
;D
I love your sons philosophy Jeannine. I know just what he means.
Please share your other colour gradings with us - you've piqued my curiosity. I want to know what the others are! lol.
BB - open to correction here, but I would say NO to the cultivator. I would go with the bit-by-bit advice, but I would use something bigger than a kitchen fork.
Hopefully the next rain may soften the lumps.
Amazin - no way - I paid you a fair price for them??
Dad - excuses, excuses!!
I find it SO much easier since I divided it into plots.
Hi KNB...BROWN MEN...warm, gentlemen,kind,wise,calm and loving ,realiable. soft spoken,often bearded, but with a natural soft beard not a harsh overly trimmed one.
Jim Reeves
I wish my plot looked like that!!! boo hoo hoo :-[ I had a tonsilectomy last thursday and we were away for a friend's wedding the week before. That means I haven't been down for about 2 weeks now. I am getting bad withdrawal symptoms and am worried that it will be like a weed-mine by the time I get back! Hopefully I shall be well enough to go down over next week and finish the digging. I had to plant my first set of broad beans into big pots in the garden yesterday because they were getting too big and needed putting out. At least I have over 2 weeks left before I have to go back to work so can hopefully get loads done over the easter holidays!
I have a man next door to my plot, whose main occupation seems to be telling me that:
I need more on my shovel
need to get my plants in now
my shed needs painting
not done much recently have you?
etc etc.
What an annoying berk!
Sparkly - newbies - we will overcome??
Glad to see I'm not the only one with the odd irritating neighbour. He is the only one on my site mind, everybody else is lovely (except for the newbies who started - couple of teenage brothers and their mum, who proceeded to raid 9 plots in one night and steal from their neighbours!) How rude!
Is it actually your 'back yard' Tim?
Thats what I have always wanted ...........just to walk out the back door and have all the gardening space I have now within spitting distance.
Beats driving three miles!!
I like it!!
Quote from: knbsallotment on March 29, 2007, 12:37:50
Glad to see I'm not the only one with the odd irritating neighbour. He is the only one on my site mind, everybody else is lovely (except for the newbies who started - couple of teenage brothers and their mum, who proceeded to raid 9 plots in one night and steal from their neighbours!) How rude!
OMG knb, you have lottie neighbours from hell!
Jeannine, I love the pink man thing! That is absolutely spot on. Please publish full and comprehensive list soon. You do make me laugh girl! x
I know! lol. Earlier that very same day they theived from us, I had given them a load of seed potatoes, peas, and strawberry plants! Cheeky beggars! Our stuff mysteriously reappeared, along with the man next door's stuff after I went to have a chat with them, made a big thing about theives, didn't say I knew it was them, but he went really pale and ran off, when I went to leave the plot, all our stuff had been put back behind the gate! lol.
That is disgusting you know, they will probably nick your stuff when ready to harvest as well and that is heart breaking.
I think I would leave a big note somewhere to say that we are aware of the identity of the thieves on our lottie as we now have proof positive,and we will prosecute if it does not stop!!
They don't know you are bluffing and they won't know who has written the note either, but I bet they will not take the chance.
Rotten lot.
XX Jeannine
Quote from: newbies on March 29, 2007, 11:49:31
I have a man next door to my plot, whose main occupation seems to be telling me that:
I need more on my shovel
need to get my plants in now
my shed needs painting
not done much recently have you?
etc etc.
What an annoying berk!
The proof of the pudding is in the eating
TG - yes. We had 2 allotments about 1/2 mile up the road, but I got lazy - & older!!
Just to prove it -
1. More dug.
2. That's in my night attire this am!!
3. An old photo showing our 2 little bits, one to the North & one to the South. You can see the big greenhouse on the right.
Hi Newbies.
Buy a walkman or just wear ear phones and point to em when you see his mouth moving ..That way he will soon get fed up :) Cheers Jim
Fantastic Tim! Looks great and I love that greenhouse. Can i move in?
Quote2. That's in my night attire this am!!
I thought you were going to test the soil warming theory mentioned in another thread! ::) ::) ;D
Noooo! Once down, I find it difficult to get up again. Rather like a beetle.
Newbies - tell him I haven't been to my plot in 3 weeks. That'll shock him. I've only got garlic and the mere 2 broan bean plants that have survived! Oh, and a nice flower bed. Painted shed??? Seriously? Mine's not even built yet and is a freebie with plenty of rotted bits. I'm worried about it staying up enough to keep me dry in the rain, not if it's recently painted. ;)
We have our first council inspection (well, my first) in April. I'm sure it'll be fine but I can't help be paranoid. :-\
Tina.
PS - for what it's worth, should have said 'North is on the left'.