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Put the finishing touches to a raised bed that i built yesterday.

Have managed to rotavate one plot ready to start putting in potatoes at the end of the month  :) :)    I have been given a fence for my 2nd plot so need to put that up

Really pleased with this weekend got loads of jobs done but just waiting for the ground to warm up for a  Easter planting session, :)

I planted 5 rows of sturon onions, 44 in a row.    ;D ;D ;D

Took the top off the lawn at home, cleaned gulleys and grubbed weeds out with my marvelous SPEED WEEDER ;D
(Big plug for my big bro).....garden looks a treat now. Shame our buyers have now bought else where. ::) The thought of another summer here fills me with delight.  :)

Are you saying your big bro is fast at weeding, or does he have something to do with this:

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Planted out some onions in the back garden that I started off in modules
Stared at my celeriac that has come back
Transplanted some AYR cauli's
;D ;D ;D

transplanted some burpless cucumbers, california wonder, yolo(thanks to my secret santa), and paprika peppers..oxheart, black krim and garden pearl tomatoes..sowed some romanesco , planting spuds tomorrow  ;D

Moved all the fuchsia plants and cuttings to No 1 greenhouse and all the potted-on seedlings to No 2 greenhouse. New greenhouse heater (I only requested potting-on compost for Mother day!) to keep them company  ;)

Ninny

Re-potted lily bulbs, been tinkering in the greenhouse and watching plants grow..1 pea has germinated! ;D..been doing log edging rolls  :-\..a job that I wish I never volunteered to do..(shop ones weren't right kind ::))
and after that I had barbeque  ;D..for job well done..

Quote from: goodlife on March 15, 2010, 22:17:44
Re-potted lily bulbs, been tinkering in the greenhouse and watching plants grow..1 pea has germinated! ;D..been doing log edging rolls  :-\..a job that I wish I never volunteered to do..(shop ones weren't right kind ::))
and after that I had barbeque  ;D..for job well done..

That's got to be the first BBQ of the year goodlife, well done!   :)

Ninny

Went out with a machete and pith helmet to attack a very large, and thanks to the snow, very droopy Phormium :o ::) Ended up cutting outside leaves and encircling the rest with wire to make it look better. Don't think this will do in the long term but it'll have to do whilst I have a think. Also massacred 2 hebes which I'd let get too leggy. Now knackered and off to bed.

Trundled autumn leaves to mulch the spuds.

Robert, what advatage is there to the spuds by mulching them with autumn leaves?

Sinbad

First time down the plot in about 2 months,so had a bit of a tidy up, put 3 rows a Rocket in,dug a few leeks up. In the 2 months i have not been there the rats have moved in, spent most of the day putting back the compost the rats had dug out me bins,will go back tomorrow and give them all another good turn over and put some bait down.

Planted my early potatoes under fleece, made some more willow wigwams, hoed everywhere, watered my transplanted strawberries....and sat in the sunshine for a bit! Very pleasant! ;D

Quote from: Sinbad7 on March 15, 2010, 23:18:05
Robert, what advatage is there to the spuds by mulching them with autumn leaves?

Sinbad

The worms take them down and it feeds the soil. Meanwhile, they cover up the spuds, which often form immediately below the mulch, and if I put on enough, stops them greening. I'd rather use grass cuttings, which have plenty of nitrogen, but I don't have any yet.

Well, not today, but over the weekend I cleared out the pots on the patio and moved the ones with bulbs to the front, and swept up the leaves from the patio for mulch for the allotment. Then had DH drag all the crud (spent soil, etc) to the allotment for putting in the compost bins. On Sunday, we all went en famille to the lottie and dug. Spread leaf mulch, planted some onions and generally got things done! My crocuses and narcissi are up in front and I'm feeling very productive lately! Spuds next weekend. Yay spring!  ;D

moved lots of plants I've grown for the plant sale out of our polytunnel into the communal greenhouse..my poly sighed a sigh of relief  ;D

Dug a patch of ground to cloche up for some beetroot. Cleared somewhere else for some strawberries that didn't get planted at the end of the year. Did some weeding.The sun makes ya feel great don t it. ;D