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Terrific bonfire including rotting cardboard covering compost heap (OK should have carried on composting it, but too thick and damp and ugly and heavy) plus autumn raspberry canes cut down rather late, and all sorts of mess.

Spread compost heap around, dark and delicious stuff.

Lovely weather, loads of digging, fantastic quantities of couch grass and convolvulus thrown onto bonfire to damp it down at sunset.

Checked and watered stuff in the first greenhouse. Got the glass to fix the third g'house but son dragged me off to Ashbourne for the football....  :-X

sewn some morning glory,watered the sweet peas which are coming on nicely now

sewn leeks and sweetcorn,and planted a rose bush i purchased off aldi.few bulbs went in also  ;D

have some desiree potatoes in the shed waiting,and onion sets.

need to buy my carrot,peas,and courgette seeds this week and im all set

Not a lot in the garden just the green house checked my  flowers all going well  bit of light  and winter sun during the day  won,t hurt them but all in doors in the night this time of the year O/H would happily divorce me  ;) ;) ;)

 :) MORE DIGGING DONE

Got an early start in and dropped off a load of manure before nipping home for a shower and catching the 7:45 to work....

Planted another line of onions
Raked the stones on my far path up against the stingers to try and keep them at bay a bit this year
Raked the soil level where I have just dug up my parsnips
Dug up couch grass around my raspberry's
;D

 :)

Digging

Used my Mantis to rotovate last years onion bed ready peas and broad beans.

Quote from: tomatoada on March 09, 2011, 17:51:42
Used my Mantis to rotovate last years onion bed ready peas and broad beans.

I use the Mantis to Break The ground down after digging  ;)

Finally got that new bit of glass in the big greenhouse... went round watering in the frames etcetera... set 192 onion sets in trays...  :)

transplanted some kohl rabi that I've started in cells , watered everything that needed it, moved the campanula cuttings outside, transplanted some sweet peas into morrison's buckets for the plant sale  ;D

finished all beds today  :D just maintenance now on paths and some branches that need sawing down, such a relief when we were so behind but everything looks great now but give it 3 months and the weeds will be great too  ;D sowed another packet of broad beans, some lettuces and spinach - had a lovely morning in sunshine and its sleeting now so planning my next visit

painted some more bed sides until it rained, planted 100 spiraxis/ freesia bulbs under the fruit trees  ;D

didnt go to plot, fitted 2 new batterys to my mobility scooter, now on charge for 24hours

 
     Nothing been at work keeping the country going, but tomorrow it's onions also red onions and shallots plus a bit of rotovating, :)

weeded the front garden

Digging, like every day last week and this whenever there is time and the soil is suitable.

Transplanted broadbeans and protected them with bottlecloches.  Sowed spinach.  Harvested salad greens and kale.

Found lots of very fat white convulvulus roots.  Considering they are related to sweet potatoes, would somebody please cross them - then I could feed the whole town with  winterhardy sweet potatoes  ;D

Dug up all my leeks
Put up a bit of small bit of fencing down one side of the plot
Put a few more earlies in
A bit of weeding and tidying up
:D

Quote from: Mr Smith on March 11, 2011, 15:26:37
 
also red onions...

My red ones always seem to bolt from set  >:(

Me - nothing today - been chasing network ghosts all day but tomorrow is earlies in containers and digging, lots of digging.