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Planted half a dozen sweet potato slips in pots, planted out some more leeks on the allotment, planted out sweet peas and Morning Glory in the back garden, potted up some basil, weeded and watered.

sowed my runner beans, borlotto and first lot of french climbing beans. fed the tomatoes and curcubits in the greenhouse as they have at least another thee weeks in their pots before the go into the ground.

Checked rat taps (caught one).
Put the fire on because I like doing it, not because I needed it.
Planted 7 varieties of beetroot, some in ground, some in modules.
Planted a variety of heritage peas.
Dug over a small bed.
Wanted to plant my asparagus but couldn't due to them being rotten on delivery!
Planted some onion sets to fill in in the spaces where some of my seed onions were before they were eaten by critters.
Went to the waste land bit and cut some comfrey for composting and to put below my beans.
Fried and ate two lamb chops.
Phoned Halle Berry and told her I couldn't go on that date as I had other beds to dig and seeds to sow.
Spoke to the old guys about who was annoying them that day and about cycling.
Sat about and generally loafed while thinking about a cool design for 'beanstick mansions'.

Wednesday evening I picked up some builders bulk bags off freecycle, picked up another bulk bag (noy full) of topsoil from freecycle, set three of the bags up on the plot to act as temp raised beds, then planted out 40 modules of pickling onions and put some slug pellets down arouund the Jerusalem artichokes cos the wee blighters have been at em.....

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yesterday evening sowed my parsnips, cut and laid comfrey around tomatoes in the plot greenhouse ;)

covered all the things ive put out far too early due to excitement and impatience,sowed back up seed of things that failed to germinate so far,watered and tidyed the greenhouse.admired hubbies pea/bean  frame he is making for us(think huge wooden goal post with twine running across) tidied seeds,weeded weeded weeded,got wet,drank ea and chattered.not many up today,prob cos of the rain.saw one of the newts in our pond so fed her a worm which she soon gobbled up

Sowed nips, spring onions and earthed up the spuds in toy tubs to the top and put fleece covers on them.         ;D ;D ;D

 :) went to lottie from work and watered pots in greenhouse, and watered my carrots on my plot. we need more rain ;D/ shades x

yesterday i erected my runnerbeans supprt and one wigwam for some climbing french beans.

Planted another row of broan beans and beetroot banked up the spuds did a bit of weeding and generally spent a nice three and a half hours on the lotty this morning, ready for a pint, :)

did some tidying and watering...
now going to talk to a group of Infant teachers and TA's about the delights of allotments and food growing... ( I never got training days like that!!)  :)

Made a seed bed in which I plan to grow cabbage seedlings. Got rid of a lot of stones and rock-hard lumps of clay. Was complimented on my broad beans by some American allotment neighbours and had to point out that they were in fact field beans (green manures planted in autumn, with lots of nitrogen fixing nodules on the roots, which I should have dug in earlier in the spring).  Some of them were beginning to flower, so I dug them in this afternoon. Sowed some more carrots. Also cut some comfrey and put it in water to rot down into rich smelly liquid. Noticed my second earlies (Charlotte) coming through and everything else growing strongly. 

Birds singing, sun shining: a wonderful day.

Put up a runner net and sowed a few more runners.
Put in another line of onions.
Sowed some more peas and put up some netting.
Re sowed some cauli to fill in the patches that never germinated.
Cultivated more soil ready for brassicas.
Sowed Squash in pots propergated in plastic bags.
Watered.       ;D ;D ;D

How did you do the squash in the plastic bag Kev?

dug out stones from my carrot bed, planted carrots and spring onions in the vain hope of deterring carrot fly, watered everything, planted sweet peas against the shed, planted purple caulis and chatted to my neighbour. Nice afternoon.

Done some digging planted out my swede and courgettes(tempting fait with them)
lots of weeding and watering.
Then back at home in the greenhouse but more lettice in 4 types and little lad put his giant pumpkins in.... And more watering....

Now feeling bloated as mrs done a loverly roast and washed down with a bottle of newky. :)

Rebuilt and refilled my four compost bins, pricked out some sunflowers, and Gaura "The Bride" for the sale... going back for ten minutes to do the Okra...  :)

erected the rest of my wigwams for my french beans, etc.

erected one of my frames for netting brassicus plants.

dug and filled 8 individual holes with rotted manure (from small mammal bedding) for my tomatoes, 4 more to do when the rest of the area is cleared of winter and early spring crops. i also started to erect their supports which will also double as the support for the roof that goes over them to help keep the rain off (in case the rain returns) thus reducing the risk or reducing the effect of blight.

potted up some cabbage seedlings.

watered whatever needed watering.

Scalped all my hedges

Mowed the lawn

Dug out two tree roots.

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Did some of my hedge yesterday. I'll probably dig a bit today. It's drizzling a bit now, but I don't think it's going to be more than a few drops now and then.