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Hope you ate it raw then... yummy...  :)

 :)picked some kale for dinner and dug part of my plot over / shades x

Quote from: saddad on March 01, 2009, 20:13:58
No Kale Suzanne? They side shoots and flower buds are very nice now, the PSB will be along soon, still eating January King Cabbage and sprouts...  :-\

I only like Nero di Toscano and forgot to cover it last summer - caterpillars had a field day - none left. I do have PSB and cut the first of Claret today. But waiting for the WSB which seems later than usual and also waiting for my overwintering cauli's. Its just that I so love Parsnips and now I will have to wait a whole 8 months until the next ones.  :'(

I've dug over one of the beds I plan to put the onions in. It hadn't been dug for several years, but I've kept it mulched, and the soil was quite loose, while it compacts if it's not mulched. One more bed to go, and they can all go in. The other has perpetual spinach in it, which is still alive. I don't know whether it'll revive, but I might cut it back move it, and see. Apart from that, it's got ground elder and nettles, which need dealing with.

We just went up to bring the green bags home ready for the recycling on Thursday. Would you believe it the tip where we usually take the stuff has closed today for refurbishing and will not open until June. Why can't they do these jobs during the winter.Tony got his boat engine out of the old GH (at last). It's been in there for 6 years. Got to concrete the floor to stop the rats coming back. He got some really foul smelling stuff out of the floor of it today. Think the rat is long gone. Will get the spuds down there when its finished so that my seedlings can go in their place.

Pruned things ;D

   Well, had a late start but I managed to pull a 20yr old Escalonia stump and roots

   out of the garden, did I say PULL !          Took a long time of digging , clipping roots,

   raking away soil and brute force !   Bit sad really  ---  not good at destroying things

   but it was spreading 6ft either side !!    Who is the boss here !!      ;D

   floss xxx

Cultivated the soil and put some more lines in for some more onions, but will leave it until after the cold snap.            ;D ;D ;D

i sowed some more seeds, and divided my chive clumps.

I am cream crackered.  ::)

Sadly out of condition after a month with my thumb strapped up, just shifted 45 bags of mushroom compost on to OH and sons plot (just beat the rain!) I had planned to move half of it on to my plot at the bottom of the hill, but didn't want to risk aggravating my thumb or doing my back in!....Ouch I can feel it now.... tea and anti-inflammatories anyone..... :-\

Re sowed celeriac.  ;D ;D ;D

nothing didnt stop raining in south wales

re - potted some runner beans (white lady) into 3ltr pots. they about 30 " high, and need staking. should be eating some 1st week in june!! ;)

transplanted 84 verbena cuttings, giant fuschias and hardy fuschias  ;D
watered the peas in the gutter with chicken muck water, wonderful aroma  :-X ;D

Tony continued to lay the floor in the GH now it has been reclaimed from the boat engine and the rat(long story) I did some housework so's I can get out there tomorrow.

had lots of wind and heavy rain last night so had to restake some of my plastic cloches, etc. also sowed some spinach beet and beetroot along with lots of different flowering perennial seeds.

planted my free bulbs from J Parker :D

Put the chitting spuds in one of the mini GH's down in the reclaimed GH to get on with it till planting out time. Sorted the Dahlias and pleased to say they are all ok. Managed to get the chrysanths into some compost to start them off. I'm a bit late with them this year but they will soon catch up. Tony made himelf a new riddle.We are both knackered now.

Quote from: thifasmom on March 05, 2009, 16:07:48
planted my free bulbs from J Parker :D

Ahh, I did that yesterday!  Into a large tub as my garden is ebing redesigned (by me) as i've had it a year now, and know roughly what I want to keep amongst the majority of weeds...

today, went and bought loads of Aldi grow bags.  they are very good (well i think) and I have started planting tmy Aldi trees into them (bag stood on end) as a place for the trees till I plant them later this year (when I've cleared that area!)  I am planting them as a mixture of a mini fan/ballarina as a garden division, having seen a photo in a book of something similar.  the bags seemed a cheap was of keeping the trees in "pots" till ready to plant

Today i met up with norfolk CSI to take fingerprints from my break-in, oh and dug some more over :o