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just like the dreaded horse tail, black as your hat and easily missed. ::)

I had the day off work but the rain put paid to most of my plans so I moved some manure on to my sweetcorn to be beds and some of my sweetcorn are just showing their heads in their pots.  ;D ;D ;D

OH has nearly finished the spuds... only four rows to go... I weded the onions this evening.
;D

Nothing been to the hairdresser and had a lot of pampering which is just as well as the weather has been really really bad!

im still digging  :'( in between the rain lol, guess what i will be doing tommorow? ha ha, might get something else planted soon apart from onions and few carrots onions are growing well i think..... carrots not showing as of yet prob too early but i didn't care i needed to sow summit. mpg

Actually got some brassicas in, but as I rubbed the muck off a label I managed to rub off the writing too ::), so I have a row of mystery greens!
I promised myself I would make notes of what I sowed this time, but I sowed different stuff, some from swaps so no packet. I'm sure all will be obvious sooner or later ;D
Also cleaned out my shed whilst weather was bad, so happy with that.

lovely day - it is now a sowing seed and potting on frenzy and some sowing in situ

still find working in the greenhouse a problem with the robin chicks but I reckon they'll have fledged by the end of the coming week - greenhouse is nearly full anyway

broad beans poking through, fruit blossom about to burst - the excitement gets me every time  ;D

still digging ;D hoping to start planting things by end of next wk fingers crossed

Planted out various types of lettuce under plastic bottles for a bit of protection, made another wigwam, strung it and planted out 'Show Perfection' peas, earthed up some more potatoes, then sat out in the sun for a bit! 8)

Watered everything in my greenhouse,put up the post for my second bean row,bagged some rubbish and mowed the grass at the end of my plot with a nice little push mower I got from "freecycle"

Rain forecast for tomorrow so not sure if anything will be done on the plot.

was going really well

-sorted 3 paths
-weeded on bed which was dence with weeds and grass and found onions i though were dead gowing --fine which made weeding fun NOT
-Used the expanding foam and filled all the hoes and gaps in my shed

but was i was moving the wheelbarrow (walking backwards to navigate though some beds) i fell back right on my bum and hit my head on the ground not knocked our or anything just have a very sore back Given i missed one of the corners of my raised bed by about 2 inches i got off lucky.

Going for a shower now if i can make it up the stairs definatly cant get into the bath i will not get back out again!!!

Planted out two more rows of spuds, put up my runner net, netted the brassica cage and spread some more manure.  ;D ;D ;D

Cam, you were lucky !!!

Today,  I realised that it is "hoeing" that makes the difference.

And the insides of my right hand has blisters.....

hmmm.

thanks riffster

I had a hot shower, some nice strong pain killers and a hot water bottle.

Managed to bring home some rhubarb, leeks and spring onions though.

Sorry you has a fall Cambourne hope you feel as good as new in the morning.

My back is aching like mad too from a really busy day at my lottie, planted out 2 1/2 large beds, got my final undug bed ready for planting, made my own poly & fleece tunnels, transplanted nasturtiums. Moved a rose bush. Phew! Got badly sunburnt on my shoulders & upper arms too  :o The wind kept me quite cool so didnt realise I was burning  ::)
Then I came home & cut my garden grass for the first time this year  :o
I know Ive well & truly over done it but as bad weather is forecast for  the next few days Ive got time to recover  ;)

Dug and weeded, yet again! Then, spurred on by a freecycler wanting plants for his garden, finally dug up a Euonymus that had outgrown its space and some perennial sweet peas that have gone rampant!

planted a squash, some beans and weeded the dam*ed sycamore seedlings out of the cabbage bed  ;D

Dug, weeded, planted various squashes. I meant to take a tray of toms,which are now growing like mad, with me, but forgot.

Digging, put some toms in the greenhouse, more digging...and then a bit more digging before I went home... ;D

I spent the day in the greenhouse potting up plants and sowing seeds that had sprouted in the airing cupboard.  I soon got out of there when the biggest bee I have ever seen flew in.  I went indoors to have a bite to eat and when I came out it had gone.  I did help a couple of other bees find their way out though. 

My day was made though when a thrush perched high on the nearby apple tree and serenaded me.    ;D ;D