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After 4 years on my old plot, I've now been given a new plot at a different (posher) site, so for me today involved digging, digging and some more digging. Then I had a rest and did some more digging..

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Sheddie

Quote from: sheddie on February 24, 2011, 14:26:16
After 4 years on my old plot, I've now been given a new plot at a different (posher) site, so for me today involved digging, digging and some more digging. Then I had a rest and did some more digging..

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Sheddie

congrats on the new plot / site!!
where is it?

( add location to profile ) ;)

We put the spuds in for Kevs challenge.

Cheers Tonybloke,

In Whickham, here in sunny Gateshead (well, its sunny today at least..). The new plot is even a few minutes closer to my home. I applied for both sites originally but never expected to get a call from the new site as had heard it was a case of 'dead man's shoes' to get a plot, but after only 4-5 years, I got the call. Well chuffed with it, its all about location!. My old site is a nice enough site with some lovely people, but due to its location and no houses anywhere near it, it suffers something terrible for vandals, people dumping rubbish etc. The new site is in a posh area and lots of houses all around, so hopefully a lot less hassle with any toe-rags.

p.s. pics will follow when I get a chance, I know we all like a nosey!

Sheddie
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filled 2 trays with compost ready to sow F1 sprouts montgomery and summer cabbage grey hound at end of month

Bought  some begonias from Aldi,s £1-25p for 6 tubers and 3 rose bushes £1-75p each had a good day all potted up but in the shed out of the weather. Still cannot plant spuds much to wet they will only rot in the ground so will hold back and see what happens

Did a little digging, and looked at the bees. One colony's flourishing, the other's died out. Typical!

Finally started clearing out one of my big pallet compost bins and sticking the stuff on the spud patch.  Was offered a load of chicken poo in straw as the person who had received this gift didn't want it.  What shall I do with it - leave it in the bags to rot down or empty it into the bottom of my compost bin to start new compost off.

keep it in the bags for now,then add it in layers through the year to your compost heap.

Oh good, didn't feel like lugging it across the plot, I a aching like mad

Quote from: shirlton on February 24, 2011, 15:37:22
We put the spuds in for Kevs challenge.

Same here - planted them under the Geoff Hamilton cloche.

Finally got round to potting the tumeric up, its been sitting in a bowl in the kitchen for nearly 3 months  ::)  :-X  and it now has small shoots, so I've potted them up into some gritty compost mix and will put them on a sunny windowsill. Be interesting to see what happens  :)

transplanted lots of dicentra cuttings, carnations and marigolds, covered the first of the potato beds, picked the last swede :)

Finished weeding the pea/bean bed and have not started on the brassica bed, harvested some leeks.    8)

bagged 16 bags of manure and took to allotment. cover the potato patch i dig yesterday with manure. then i dig a bean trench and filled with manure. all i can say is my back is killing me lol

planted about 175 onion sets

hope you back's ok TB - I've got 3 bags of onions to plant and will have to do it in small stages but today an easy day, just sowing seeds in the greenhouse and a lazy bit of tidying up but planning dates for the spuds to go in, the onions and broad beans - all has to happen over the next 3/4 weeks  :)

Well my OH jet washed the inside and outside the greenhouse. That's another job done! ;D

Dug out crouch grass took 12 bags of it to the tip

Dug out some ground elder and planted some last-minute garlic.