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Had a bit of a tidy up in the front garden.

Had a quick visit to the plot to check on sprouts for hubby  ;)

Local wildlife surviving on my spinach   :(

Rats all tucked up nicely in my composters   :(

.....................tis after all, the season of good will  ::)  ;D

Harvested sprouts, carrots, parsnips, broccoli & Jerusalem artichokes manured & covered one bed and moved 4 barrow loads of muck to a compost bin for it's second year, and I felt real good  :) :) :)

Did some more tidying up like getting all the dead leaves from the bottom of the sprouts and PSB.  Picked some sprouts for the freezer. I like them when they are about as big as a marble so have to be diligent with the picking to catch them before they get bigger. Decided that we will have to plant more next year. Tony spent his time dock hunting. He's got a thing about docks. Had a nice bottle of wine from the Steve and Carol who took on their plot earlier this year. They said it was for the help we gave them. Was really chuffed. We are going again today while the weather stays fine to do a bit more

Harvested parsnips, carrots, celeriac and took home with stored Kestrels and PFA's, spuds and parsnips are going round my sisters for Christmas day.  ;D ;D ;D

Lovely day today. Dug up some parsnips. Tone went on his dock hunt again today. Probably won't get up there again until after 25th

thinned out and weeded a  30ft row of raspberries, mulched 'em with straw, sorted out another no-dig bed (layers of cardboard/manure/straw) inspected thursdays veg (sprouts, parsnips, carrots, leeks) ;)

raked up loads of leaves,was easy on the frozen ground,talked about where we putting some new shrubs,and had a general tidy up of the junk area.was so cold but were still there till darkness fell!

Weeded and mulched the fruit beds, put a few barrows of manure on next year's potato plot, dug out brambles, pruned gooseberries and an apple tree and had a bonfire, put up some bird boxes, shored up the dilapidated greenhouse and tidied up the shed. It's great that the sun is setting perceptibly later - about 4.30 pm this evening.

Picked some more sprouts for tea...  ;D

Quote from: saddad on December 28, 2008, 17:58:42
Picked some more sprouts for tea...  ;D

Wise move! Brass monkey weather today.  ;)

 FED THE BIRDS!!  to cold for anything else.

nipped up the lottie and picked up the bags of rubbish to go to the tip, filled the bean trench with guinea pig poo, then sat down and did loads of digging in my dreams  ;D

Sunny and cold here ...7.30 am remove covers and the large umberella cloche from over my Agaves..........3pm cover them up again .   Check greenhouse heater is working and the radio still set to Classic FM to keep all the my plants happy .   :) Debs

Tucked some more shallots in cells in the greenhouse, should the ones I popped in up at the plot fail to a nasty something or other  ;)

Completed the new wood chip path along the fence, weeded, planted the rest of my garlic and my shallots. Not another soul in sight!

Finally had a bonfire, but everything was rather damp (Metcheck telling porkies again, it was supposed to be bright sunshine!). Cut down asparagus and tried to get some of the couch out from between them before surrounding with cardboard in hope of getting a few less weeds next year. Think I may need a plan B of starting a new asaparagus bed  :(
Got a bit p****d off by the neighbours who were complaining that they hadn't managed to get on top of things, when all they had left to do was cut back a hedge while the rest of their plot is immaculate!

Dug up another load of strawberry plants. I seem to be doing this every other week as the things wont stop spreading! The soil was good for it though and I even warmed up a fraction after a while!

Then I cut down the raspberry canes. That's one of those jobs I always think l'll do in a few minutes but after what seemed like ages and a lot of hard work, I'd only done half the row. Still can't explain how that one works.....

But at least I went home with some leeks and a cabbage. Taking something always makes any effort worthwhile.

Helped 12 yr old son clear his plot of brambles, I swear they are still growing! We had a good 3 hour slash and burn session, and then cleared a bit more of the path so we could actually see it... :-\ 

Frosty all day - very bracing. Apart from spreading manure about the place, continued pruning gooseberries and attempting to get couch grass roots out from underneath them. Is there a simple, pain-free way of doing this?