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I pricked out my godetia and helchrysums hollyhocks and aubergines and took my first dahlia cuttings (pom pom) new baby. But only small amounts of everything holding on for the mad rush once the frost clears.

This time last year it was mild i had my seedlings outside in the cold frame already and my dwarf tulips were in flower. No chance this year can you belive its forecast to go beyond next weekend. brrr all the window ledges are now occupied but weirdly most of them have the very very late flowering forced hyacinths that should have flowered by christmas, but lovely and better late than never  ;D

summer dreams -- big sigh!
x sunloving

transplanted leeks, tomatoes, all yr round cauliflower, took 5 honeysuckle cuttings, moved the sweet peas to the polytunnel, cleared out my polytunnel truck and put bubblewrap over the early carrot bed  ;D

Outdoors, chucked some veg peelings in the compost and ran in from the rain  ;D

Indoors, cabbage and lettuce are sprouting. ;)

Barrowed muck up from where it's dropped by the gate on site to our plot.Several times !!
Got soaked, got filthy,overheated felt FAB

Quote from: manicscousers on February 23, 2010, 15:20:50
transplanted leeks, tomatoes, all yr round cauliflower, took 5 honeysuckle cuttings, moved the sweet peas to the polytunnel, cleared out my polytunnel truck and put bubblewrap over the early carrot bed  ;D

what a worker that manic is  :o and what was the other half doing while all this activity was going on   in wigan  I got dragged into an unplanned  work party tiring
but it helps sort the site out 23 / 2 / 10

Someone has turned off the heating out there.

Quote from: Digeroo on February 23, 2010, 18:47:58
Someone has turned off the heating out there.

Hi digeroo   just looked at your site on satellite link looks really tidy    think I saw you waving

Sowed some lupin and delphinium seed in the greenhouse 'cos my Percy Thrower book said in late February I could! :)

Ninny

Fed the chickens and counted the molehills

persuaded OH to help me dig another bed on the new bit of a lottie- actually he did the lion's share, but it was great to see it all turned over and tidy!

planted the maris bard spuds for the spud challenge, planted some more and some sharpe's express in the polytunnel, covered them all over 'cos it's still cold..planted the rest of the shallots in a warmed bed  ;D

Moved the plastic mini greenhouse to the sunny part of the garden, well weighted down this time.

Put the blueberry bush and newly bought gooseberry bush in it.
Put the potato pot for the competition in it, is that cheating?  :P
Also put the seedlings, lettuce, cabbage and tomato in.

transplanted at home
tigerella toms, marmande toms, oxheart toms
at the plot, transplanted greyhound cabbages, lollo rosso lettuce and ishikura onion bunches, checked the peach trees, no opened blossom yet, planted my pre-chitted parsnip seeds, got 3 1/2 rows 2' wide now  ;D

Got bloody soaked, putting down some gravel between my shed and the pallets I'm using as a decking base. Planted my 11th clematis, a v small but fiesty looking Montana Rubens from Wilko.

I love a Montana lewic, so reliable. You just know it's going to flower big time every time.
I don't know about you lot transplanting already, I've just sown my first lot of seeds today, now under threat of compost heap for the none germinators. Not had many of those in my sewing room, very cosy. ;D

Looked for newts in the pond (and saw none), fixed a cleat to the flag pole so I could pull the flag a bit tighter, and ordered a nice new one on-line.

Planted out some strawberries that had just arrived.  I  keep changing my mind where to put them.

I did a little clearing and weeding around the brassicas in the polytunnel. Also picked 4 cauliflowers that were ready. Remembered to water the strawberries in hanging baskets.

i have had a lovely day down the lottie  ;D Finished all the raised beds and wood chipped all the paths  ;D Also put our scarecrow which me and my daughter made friday in place watching over the lottie  ;D

Looked out at the snow and tutted! >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( :'( :'(