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raked seed bed to a tilth, sowed broad beans and brought home some leeks for Sunday lunch.

Too much!!! .......... o u c h !!!!!
...and probably same again tomorrow.... :-((((

Sat in the sun with a cup of tea!

It was a lovely sunny day here today so I.......

Pulled up the last parnips brought them home and prepared them for freezing.
Removed all the dead leaves from the stawberry plants.
Weeded two raised beds.
Weeded in-between the leeks.

The sun brought out a quite a few other allotment holders today. Some I hadn't seen in months. It was nice seeing them again.

Duke

While Tony was dock hunting I was emptying out our 3 half barrels. One is going to be used for the spud challenge at Walsall rd and the other two for our long carrots

in the drizzle, weeded another bed (only 2 to go now), put a big tub over some rhubarb to force and sowed cabbages, celtuce, mitsuba, kintsai and some porcupine calendulas  ;D going to play with seeds now

sowed Aubergines, Tomatoes and Peppers  :) Did I mention I'm getting a greenhouse  ::)  ::)  ::)

Thanks for the reminders folks, must sow some Oriental veg next

Planted Victoria rhubarb, then lined string ready for onions to go in, next week hopefully, if the weather holds  8)

Sowed some dahlias, potted on some aubergine and chilli seedlings. If I don't succeed with aubergines this year(third year of trying) I will give up :'(

Duke

transplanted the last of the pak choi, some more fielderkraut cabbage, sowed some fillbasket sprouts and speedy cauliflower  in the tunnel, under plastic outside, sowed some silverskin onions  ;D

Sowed all the tomatoes... then brought the pots into the propagator to get them going..  :)

Started the almighty tidy up in my garden at home. Lasted 1/2 hour. Think I'm going to have to get a 'person' in to help. :(

Finished mulching the rhubarb with last year's grass cuttings, and did some digging.

planted 2 rows  sharpes express spuds , rest next week if weather is fine

We had a bonfire on the lottie to burn a stump in the middle of our compost area
Planted 2 Rockets for the challenge
Potted up 8 strawberry runners
Shoveled manure into recycle boxes ready for the spuds.
;D ;D ;D

Collected ashes from our bonfire, it was still hot from yesterday and started smoking again as I collected 3 fire buckets of ash
Took off cardboard, weeded and cultivated more soil
Put the cardboard and blankets on the path
;D ;D ;D

Dug up all the parsnips to make wine- and eat some! ;)
Dug up leeks and picked sprouts and sprout tops to make leek and sprout top soup.
Let a couple of chickens out to do a bit of weeding for me.
Planted the "step over" apples- did the cordons a couple of days ago.
Dug out the compost from and old water header tank because the drainage hole got blocked, put another one in and replaced compost for a new blueberry.
Tidied out greenhouse on plot and watered the overwintered lettuce and chrysanthemums.
Started to empty a compost bin where taters are going.
Moved a few blue barrels for the rain water collection.
Then came home, made the soup and had tea! ;)

planted my mini , self fertile, no peel kiwi, sounds too good to be true  ;D
planted out some limnanthes and some alpine strawberries and weeded the onion and cabbage beds, the weeds think it's spring  ;D

Pulled out the pea sticks and dug over the failed pea bed ...ready to try again ...found a couple of potatoes and a carrot in there. Cut some PSB  ,leeks and rhubarb for lunch  .  Had a small bonfire in the incinerator bin  .

Tried to get rid of Crocosmia in the back garden and tomorrow attempting to do the same with Oxalis!Space invaders - never conquered that old game either!

Ninny