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Quote from: manicscousers on November 20, 2008, 16:49:10

Quote from: thifasmom on November 20, 2008, 14:52:55
layed more pricks to my footpaths

d'ya want to re-phrase that, if not, there are a couple on our site you can have  ;D

OMG :-[ JUST SAW THAT!!!! sorry it was to read as bricks :-\ ;D.

Lovely day and a fantastic sunset. Pruned the blackcurrants and stuck the cuttings in a spare bit of ground to see if they root. Single dug and weeded a large area ready for next year.  Dug over the bean trench. Hoed the onion bed. Sowed two more rows of aquadalce - next year will be The Year of the Broad Bean. Picked a sackload of apples. Swept up and burned the dead leaves from my sad, diseased pear tree. Harvested a cabbage. Chatted to some allotment neighbours. Watched the birds. Great way to spend a day.

Surprisingly I did some more digging :o :o :o ::) ::) ::)

What you doing tomorrow Trin.  ???     :-\        ;D ;D ;D

Finished my digging this afternoon so now the two plots are bedded down for the winter. All that's left now is to prune my soft fruit bushes and a general tidy up.

Almost nothing, except plant a few tulip bulbs, but there are compensations.  Too busy rehearsing for Brahms German Requiem in Highgate tonight. Absolutely thrilling to sing! The concert is a complete sell out.

planted more garlic and collected the fallen leaves in my garden

I have got one at home (. rick), he has just got up.  Late night last night so he will probably be moaning, take control of the remote whilst I go shopping in the cold.  Was going to the allotment but too cold, planted some sweet peas seeds in our lean to.

its so cold I'm having to lay about twelve bricks then run inside to warm up fingers and i have on gloves :-\. at least its bright and sunny.

Went to the allotment, with woolly hat, gloves etc. still felt cold. Dug up parsnips and then rushed home.  OH still holding on tight to remote control, think he is tired as he keeps switching channels.

We have been at the lottie for about 5 hours. Was freezing, but productive. We have moved about a tonne of compost. The compost heap left from the previous owner did stand at 8ft high and we have been whittling this down to the current 3ft! We put in another raised bed and put wood chippings around other raised beds.

This week I've put up my brassica netting cage, yesterday I moved and covered my manure, layed out my spuds in the sun  8) and threw out a couple of bad uns and finnished off my runnerbean trench.  ;D ;D ;D

Not much in the allotment this weekend as OH is away on a boy's weekend.  Took Billy out this am after the snow had melted, got absolutely drenched and frozen.

Last weekend, finally got around the putting in a new zip in the poly greenhouse that was vandalised earlier in the year.

I have two weeks leave over Christmas - guess where I will be most of the time??? ;D

dug up the witloof to force, that's all, too cold

wonderful morning on the lotty managed to

Finish planting my onion sets/seeds, carrot seeds.

Pushed soil up against my leekspacked away a load of stuff that i have been meaning to do for a while inc closhes for sowing stuff in early 2009.

The plot is just far 2 wet to do anything else really i am hoping to get up to the plot tomorrow but realisticaly i cant see it happening.

Felt a little bit like McAlpines today dug a eighteen foot long trench and installed a two inch pipe to take the water away from my top trench that catches my neighbours run off water, hopefully a dryer lotty for spring.

we're in the middle of doing that but we're running the trench  to the neighbouring leylandii trees, it seems to be working so far  :)

 Manic, My intention was to run the pipe to my raised beds but I could not get enough fall on the pipe run but I will have another look at it when the weather is more clement and see what I can do,

ah, we have the problem the other way, water has been under the raised beds, pot a post hole in and it's full of water before it's finished being dug and remains like that for quite some days, also, at the moment, lots of water over the paths..the subsoil is very dense clay and before we took the plot on, it was never cultivated as too wet .

Put a bowl of food out tonight for the fox I saw last night when I went to check on my sweetpeas in the greenhouse.

Don't know who was scared the most - him/her or me  :o

It made off with one of the fatballs from the birdfeeder a squirrel had dislodged by chewing the net.

Petless house now, so welcome all and sundry.  :)