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Digging and tidying  :)

Put the washing on the line for wife  :)

A bit of digging, and I brought the brassica seed home to sort out an early planting. Someone suggested starting couve tronchuda early, indoors, for an early autumn crop, and I'll be putting several other brassicas in at this rate!

Tried to soak my experiment growing veg in 12 straw bales.......and the allotment water was turned off.

Never happened before. When your allotment water is turned off, when is it usually turned on again?

stayed at home today to tend to the garden - sowed seeds, topped up all the pots with lovely home spun compost, cleaned out the chiminea and we are all set to go here  ;D

Been tidying up..'digging out' all pots and bits of rubbish from hedge bottom that wind has been blowing there over winter.
Shifting stored slabs on better location out of way.
Digging and turning land over for new squash bed ;D ;D
Digging row of JA's out and bindweed..never ending job ::)
That's action so far..more to do once coffee had 'dried' out and tummy cannot take it anymore. ;D
another shift is waiting while weather is good ;D

Went to the plotment to move spread the compost,  found three more broken panes of glass :-[ :-[ :-[ on the greenhouse.
Started checking through my alpine seed pots and managed to fall over and bash my head on a barrel.
now got a nice bump and a bruise on my leg. Sunlovers came to help!

Anyway going back this afternoon to get bit more done or fall over again! that gooseberry wine we started last night must be strong stuff. ;D ;D ;D

Walked round admiring all the spring flowers covered with snow!! :-[ :-[ :-[

Our water will be back on again early next month, as long as we get reasonably seasonal weather.

transplanted lots of lettuce, watered stuff, Ray washed the roof of the poly, I transplanted 100 anthirrinums, fiddly little things  ::)
planted up 14 buckets of sweet peas, the greenhouse is filling up quickly  ;D

Digging lots and lots of digging ;D put in leek seed and some more spuds in pots in the greenhouse

Planted some bulbs, sowed more seed of flowers and veg. :D
OH made a cloche cover out of fleece and webbing for my bed. :-[
Put up my canes for the runners next month.
Raked over the seed beds ready for more seed to go in.
Had a cup of tea. ;D

 
           Loved it, me and Mrs Smith working together, fruit cage netted onions and shallots in just a brilliant morning, I'm back down tomorrow if it stays dry, :)

Round two today and all JA's are up,, land turned over and several barrowfull of chicken muck loaded on..
Body says it's done some work today :-\

Planted some Picardy Wight garlic- had been in pots at first.
Planted early potatoes.
Lovely day. OH  measured up for next glass cutting assignment for the greenhouse and put guttering on shed.
Let the chickens on to site of an old compost heap to do some weeding for me ;D ;D
Watered over wintered lettuce in greenhouse and the chrysanthemums-not sure if they've all made it :(

nowt cos it started to rain

Finished off a line of Rocket
Emptied home compost into the dalek
Planted out 6 shallots in my back garden that I had in pots indoors
Cut the grass in my back garden and put some of the grass on the spud ridges.
;D

Got the greenhouse up in the garden woo hoo, only took four months of nagging ;D I am going to start filling it up tomorrow, oh what shall i sow first ;D ;D ;D

O H done some digging! ;D
sowed some cucumbers and toms indoors then some radish and carrots direct!
planted some shallots sets too! enjoyed every min i love getting up the allotment and spending quality time with my hubby and forgetting all about work! cant put a price on it ! ;D

Sowed all the peppers and Aubergines for the propagator.. lots of brassicas for the cold greenhouse... moved the sweetpeas out to the other greenhouse.. did some weedng.. lovely day..  :)