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Just looked at it !!!! :D

Harvested carrots, parsnips, celeriac. Beetroot and kale.Got the onion bed ready.

covered the early potato bed to warm up, transplanted my pak choi and put the cabbage seedlings in the street light cold frames  ;D
Ray moved 10 barrows of well rotted muck, 3 per bean bed, the rest in melon/cucumber pits in the poly  ;D ;D

QuoteJust looked at it !!!!

Did it look good?  :)

QuoteRay moved 10 barrows of well rotted muck, 3 per bean bed, the rest in melon/cucumber pits in the poly   

This I'm very jealous of. Trying to get friend of friend to deliver to site, but it never happens and I don't want to nag any more. Been thinking of when to ask OH whether he'd drive me to the riding stables again... It's an ordeal carrying bags to plot. Access is not easy on our site. Little narrow windy paths.

But on a happier note I had lovely time at lottie this afternoon. Planted more shallots. Worked out how to dig up couch grass using only left hand (injured right hand) and how sad am I, that made me happy  ::) ;D ;D

Finished weeding the brassica bed
Dug up the last of the parsnips
Composted some of the leaves and weeds and bagged up the nasties
Harvested kale with my parsnips
;D ;D ;D

made 2 more bed today of 5ft by 5ft

more digging and digging for me, bit thats all of my new plot turned over now  ;D

planted up a bed of home guard early potatoes and covered it  ;D
weeded the onion bed on the new plot, again  ::) ;D

rotovated a patch for the onion sets, raked flat so next its onion sets , going to

plant later this week

i hope

retrieved the bulbs in pots(lots frost damaged) from the side of the house and sat them in the sunshine on the patio, and pruned the clematis

Uncovered the onion bed and give the cultivator a quick twist over the soil
Sowed Monarch and Giant Prague Celeriac in a heated propergator
Planted last 6 shallots in pots indoors.   ;D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahHvvU4JPtA

planted a bed of red duke of york on plot 1 and covered it, put up a mini greenhouse and a shelving unit in the poly, early toms in the greenhouse and loads of herb seedlings and cuttings on the shelves, my sweet cicely cuttings appear to have taken  ;D
nearly forgot took the first of the champagne rhubarb, forced under a morrison's black bucket  ;D ;D

Dug the footings for two new raised beds that will not be used for a few years yet they are both 4mtrs by 2.5mtrs  will start the brick work this weekend  and hope to have them done by the end of the month and will fill with all the garden waste and old grow bags, and the local stables will supply the rest for free ;) ;D

Sowed a small patch of Early Nantes Carrots in my plastic bath on the lottie
Stringed out some lines ready for the onions
Chopped, blanched and froze parsnips
8)

Uncovered the rest of the root bed and added council compost as the soil had sagged a bit, gave the cultivator a few twists and added some chicken pellets
Weeded in between the Winter onions
Harvested some leeks for some of my plot neighbours.
;D

Started digging over ready for the spuds.  Planted champagne Rhubarb. (hoping to start making wine for next year.) Have cleared the brambles encroaching from next doors plot. Planted more onions (pigions/magpie thieves) Still haven't worked out how they got them past the netting. Praying the weathers as good over the rest of the weekend. Felt giddy at the sight of so much sun ;D ;D ;D

Nothing in the garden today, but i have big plans for tomorrow ;D

Planted a damson tree - Merryweather -  and two blackcurrants, Ben Sarek and Ben Connan.

Took tarpaulins off a 12 bale double row of straw bales, my new craze. Eg: http://www.no-dig-vegetablegarden.com/straw-bale-gardening.html

I am hoping to a) stifle a big area of weedy meadow for later digging as a veg bed, and b) grow some crops while I am waiting.

Weeded a small bed of shallots, elephant garlic and over-wintering onions. Admired leeks, not big, but visibly fattening up.

Allotments (3 smallish plots) look very messy over all, but are actually quite productive and I have the usual optimistic plans for perfection.

transplanted some more pak choi, red fuego and fielderkraut cabbage, sowed some kalibos cabbage..dug up some leeks as that's where the spuds are going, making some pea and ham soup tomorrow so loads will go in there  ;D