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another vote for a piccy here  ;D
transplanted 68 cinereria ? sp
27 campanula cuttings and re potted hyacinths as they were crowded  :)

So far me and OH have dug over most of the Schools plot, salvaging a few baby carrots and swede. Back out after lunch, we have slight snow flurries at the moment...  :)

alright alright here it is, when it in full leaf i'll post another thats when it really looks great.

That's lovely! Did you grow the willow yourself?

I reckon you should post the instructions for that. It's bloomin marvellous. I could do with one of them up the plot

Now i do like that.

We took over the new plot yesterday, we where going to have the plot across from our other one then it was one by the side then it ended up being the plot behind us !! I had planned the other 2 plots but this one im playing by ear   ;D
We cleared all the rubbish, burnt the wood and took a big trailer of metal and junk to the tip !
Picked up a load of manure and finished clearing the plot ready to start digging the manure in next weekend.
Love the willow arch !!!

Lovely thif - please post instructions for when we cut back our willow later in the year  :D

Ninnyscrops

here are the instructions have fun

http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,48713.0.html

Quote from: downtoearth on February 01, 2009, 22:41:26
Lovely thif - please post instructions for when we cut back our willow later in the year  :D

Ninnyscrops

if you have willow growing from last year this is the time for cutting it ie from november till early march, before the sap starts to rise i think, so you might be able to do this or similar projects this year.

Don't thinkmanyofus will be doing much today! Might bring some compost into the house to warm up!

Just built a snowman with the four year old and thrashed next door in a snowball fight and I was out numbered 2/1.  8)    ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Sent Tone down the shed for the stored carrots and taters.Put the casserole in me new slow cooker. Fed the birds and shut the bloomin door and we have spent the whole afternoon playing a game on the computer.

Cleared an area of snow in back garden so that I could put the food down for the blackbirds.

Checked on the October sown sweet peas that had been fleeced for a couple of days. As you will see they are all ok. They have been outside since they were sown in Oct last year. The netting is to stop the birdies from having a go at them.

Watched the snow slowly melt, and my cats trying to creep out for a wee without getting themselves too wet....hilarious!

Left hand still in splint for another 2 weeks  >:( so a bit limited as to what I can do on the plots, did make up my sowing calandar though! :-\

Decided NOT to do what I did yesterday afternoon, which was to drive over to the lottie with a few things to store in the shed and to harvest some sprouts and leeks. Ended up spending more than an hour trying to get up an ice-covered hill to go home, skidding into the grass verge, throwing up loads of mud and eventually triumphing through lots of shovelling and a bit of sand. There was nobody to watch all this except a fox and various birds.  Embarrassing all the same!

transplanted 9 dozen marigolds  ;D
only another 3 dozen to go  ;D

ok,yday,had meeting with our lovely council fellow,then transplanted strawbs,set our pond in,soooo excited,cant wait for frogs! moved gooseberry bushesburnt tons of weeds,made raised bed for the carrots,marvelled at how little we have to do this year as compared to last ,our first year

Went down the bottom, broke the 3" layer of ice in the butts and on the pond, dug up some leeks and brought in a stem of Sprouts... Igor from Robinsons..


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