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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: Duke Ellington on February 10, 2012, 22:04:40

Title: I AM DREAMING OF..........
Post by: Duke Ellington on February 10, 2012, 22:04:40
Picking tomatoes cucumbers and sweet peppers from my greenhouse. I am really missing home grown fresh veg!! :'(
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Post by: manicscousers on February 10, 2012, 22:06:14
Me, too. Sick of tasteless salads when I go out for a meal  :-\
Still, the tomatoes are all showing  ;D
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Post by: Jeannine on February 11, 2012, 03:24:32
A blight free season

XX Jeannine
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Post by: Ellen K on February 11, 2012, 07:39:14
Buying a big piece of polythene with the money HMRC says it is giving me back.

Only here will people understand why that is a double joy.
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Post by: cornykev on February 11, 2012, 08:39:39
Digging my first spuds, hole free and plentiful.    :D
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Post by: Melbourne12 on February 11, 2012, 08:50:41
... taking the first modest crop of asparagus, planted in spring 2010.
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Post by: Digeroo on February 11, 2012, 08:58:09
Raspberries, strawberries fresh rhubarb and yoghurt.  Lovely sunny days and soft refreshing rain during the night. 
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Post by: brown thumb on February 11, 2012, 09:00:51
starting some lovely seeds off done a very few      soon soon  now
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Post by: shirlton on February 11, 2012, 11:39:26
I am dreaming of enjoying our new allotment. Also looking forward to the open days and veg show that we have planned for the year.
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Post by: bridgehouse on February 11, 2012, 14:14:21

I am dreaming of spending some quiet time on my plot just working away as best I can, and then sitting back with a nice coffee and just listening to the birds singing
Last year was a no go for me, so this year with some help with the digging my plot will be lovely, with plenty of things growing, all well, I hope
   June.
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Post by: sheddie on February 11, 2012, 14:52:47
I'm dreaming of our secretary saying that one of our three abandoned plots has finally been given up by the owner so I can have a full plot...and grow twice the lurvley fruit and veg!!

;D
sheddie
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Post by: chriscross1966 on February 11, 2012, 14:57:25
Quote from: Melbourne12 on February 11, 2012, 08:50:41
... taking the first modest crop of asparagus, planted in spring 2010.

Ditto... grown from seed sown in 2009, kept in a succession of pots until last year, planted out into their bed, decent showing plants last year... this year I get to eat some.....
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Post by: small on February 11, 2012, 15:35:38
Warmth.....
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Post by: gavinjconway on February 11, 2012, 18:15:35
Getting my spuds in... my small stock from my first crop last year that I grew on a small garden share are finished.. Thats 7 months of own spuds.. 
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Post by: green lily on February 11, 2012, 20:45:59
Drying my own tomatoes this year. Did couple of years ago, they were great.. ;D ;D
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Post by: Monkey Brains on February 11, 2012, 22:21:39
Temperatures somewhere above zero so I can get back to digging over my new plot...
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Post by: Robert_Brenchley on February 12, 2012, 19:19:56
Getting a polytunnel up. Hopefully I'll do it this year.
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Post by: Bubbles26 on February 12, 2012, 21:12:37
Actually putting something in the ground rather than just taking weed roots out ... then ironically taking things out of the ground again.
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Post by: Gordonmull on February 12, 2012, 23:36:21
Dry weather. I need to dig!

The first seeds coming up in their modules.

Homemade cheese, home grown tomato and home-cured ham on a toastie made with homemade bread  All enjoyed with lovely salad straight from the garden and a bowl of soup made from the stock of the ham and a little of each root veg on a sunny weekend in late summer. Washing it all down with a glass of my own wine or cider, while I look over my rows of crops, shuffling the hoe about a bit in the warm sunshine and topping up that glass.
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Post by: star on February 14, 2012, 17:29:09
Actually growing something this year. I took a year off last year......and some warm sunny weather with summer showers overnight, not all day! ;D
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Post by: JENIAN on February 14, 2012, 18:00:46
Quote from: bridgehouse on February 11, 2012, 14:14:21

I am dreaming of spending some quiet time on my plot just working away as best I can, and then sitting back with a nice coffee and just listening to the birds singing

Me too
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Post by: cornykev on February 14, 2012, 20:15:04
A White Christmas.   ;)
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Post by: woodypecks on February 14, 2012, 20:34:29
.....lots and lots of juicy blackcurrants  .....
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Post by: macmac on February 14, 2012, 22:22:57
The first radish,rocket oh and the first sun warmed tomato shoot me now....
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Post by: betula on February 15, 2012, 07:22:21
My first complete season on my newish Allotment. ;D
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Post by: elvis2003 on February 15, 2012, 07:25:51
...playing in my greenhouse with the radio on quietly,a lovely cup of tea and the sight of OH next door playing happily in his
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Post by: Robert_S on February 15, 2012, 09:51:36
...going home from work, eating something we have grown and then still having time for an hour or two down the allotment before dark.

...being able to spend an hour or two down there before work

...not having to wade through mud in the cold and dark to shut my chickens in after work

...long sunny afternoons sitting around admiring my work

etc
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Post by: Tulipa on February 15, 2012, 13:22:38
Getting more on top of things on my allotment  :) spending more time enjoying it and also hoping my sons will help with the digging  ;) ;)

And really dreaming that our allotment site can stay where it is and not be moved to a new position with all the hard work that will cause :( :(

T.