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Planted three rows of walking onions and one of early garlic.

Planted 2 rows of red electric, and watched the wife pot a blueberry bush to celebrate her 40th.
Some women like diamonds and pearls,
give mine a set of onions and a fruit bush and she's well chuffed. ;D

Dug an asparagus trench - oh my poor back!

Well, over the last 3 days... Dug more grass out at the allotment (aching backs again!), OH dug two trees out in the garden and I tidied up after him and moved some plants around and divided some. lovely weather this afternoon.

Dug up some PFA's, took home some parsnips, spuds, beetroot and one small sweetcorn.  ;D ;D ;D

Put our two goldfish in a large muck bucket full of pond water - had a good dredge of the pond and pulled out loads of reeds and iris - topped it up and they'll be back in situ in the morning  :)

Ninnyscrops

enjoyed the sun again and finally got the garlic and winter onions in, planted out a new strawberry bed and had a good clear up, still lots to do but the list gets shorter  :)

Similar here, got my first batch of overwintering onions, shallots and garlic in and covered with wire mesh to stop the foxes playing with them! ;D

Prepared bed for alliums. Planted up space left from removing Tayberry with raspberry canes that had wandered out of their row, so now have row of 10 Glen Clova instead of 6 GC and a Tayberry (I gave the Tayberry away...prefer boysenberry's so I'll get one of those instead). Picked more Autumn Bliss Raspberries then found my summer raspberry Glen Moy had triple what I picked on the AB ripe so now have nearly full 2 L container! Would you believe that took 3 1/2 hours! But lovely day here.

Did all my housework today and so tomorrow NOTHING is going to stop me taking some sarnies and a flask and going to the lottie ALL day.So much to do. ;)

Just back from my allotment to rake the ground  that I rotovated last week and I was informed that three of the old boys on our allotments are not to well two are in hospital  and the other one had a slight heart attack, I doubt if these allotments will be worked next year also another two folk are also giving up their lotties this will be a total of five twenty % of the allotment site, I hope the council hasve a waiting list :o

put another 1ft layer on my large compost heap, and harvested loads of sweet peppers from a cold frame, and chillies from outdoors. home for a cuppa! ;)

Tidied up the shed, felt a bit rough so didn't feel up to much today.  ;D ;D ;D

Dug up some parsnips for my daughter to take back with her to university.  She seemed very appreciative!

Only went for a quick looksee as I had to babysit Grandaughter.Such a hardship ;D
Picked more toms, decided to give the cape gooseberries the go-by next year as I'm sure they are responsible for my guts ache. ::)
So much to do and I wanted to stay. Next week is the week.......

got 10 rows of onions in,different varieties,dug in some manure for next year,finally nagged oh into making a new compost bin,yay!

finished my dad's new borehole! connected pump and pipes, it maintains 80 gals/hour. will be used for the garden, not drinking (although it tastes better than tapwater) ;)

Today I sat in the shed for two hours collecting rents. I did shell out some more beans that I picked yesterday!  ;D

Oversaw the final 4 loads of cow manure delivered to the site this morning.That makes a total of 16 loads over the weekend.

At £18 a load that makes the farmer a cool £288 for about 6 hours work.

Dug a trench this morning too and filled it will anything I could find to make it nice for the runner beans next season.

Winter dug a fairly large area and incorporated lots of manure.I actually dug it in and did not spread it over the top.

Had lots of breaks for cups of tea too  ;D

 Called it a day after i dug in a bed of Buckwheat as the cold wind was blowing through me. :(