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Third session of digging out a very old strawberry bed, slowly, cos it's riddled with bindweed and I want to try and get most of it out by hand, so its a sort of double digging exercise. Phew!

 :) After digging the plot over the last 2 weeks 

have now spread  28 barrows of well i mean well rotted manure over them will leave for a week now hope we get a little ;D rain  then i will get the mantis on it to break it all down -Then hopefully get sowing !!

Watered all the pots, greenhouses and frames...  ::)

Quote from: saddad on March 25, 2011, 15:23:01
Watered all the pots, greenhouses and frames...  ::)

yea its getting dry out there

April showers... pierce the drought of March to the roots...  :)

part 2 of digging a bed full of couch grass.
Not helped by the fact I have a cold and hayfever and asthma together, I was not a pretty sight.

Meat and fire.  ;)

Quote from: saddad on March 25, 2011, 15:30:28
April showers... pierce the drought of March to the roots...  :)

Where's the pilgrimage, then? Wyevale?

got in the first of the potatoes- Kestrel (second earlies), added a row of cabbage to the seed bed-already sowed sprouts, calibrese, pfb and cauli, looked at peas and broadies but nothing showing yet.

Sowed a 1/4 line of Autumn King Carrots
Cultivated Brassica soil.
;D ;D ;D

I sowed two rows of beetroot under  a cloche and planted my dwarf broad beans.

Duke :)

planted the last of the earlies, spud challenge under the cloche on the hot bed will need their first earth up on monday  :o
others not showing yet  ;D

Weeded and fed strawberries and sowed 2 rows of parsnips while Tone filled the water butts and went stone picking

planted the last 150 onions, pleased with that as it isn't a job I like doing very much but the soil is so good this year it made it easy, planted some new raspberries, spread some home made compost, sowed some lettuce and rushed home to watch the cricket  ;D

planted some lettuce out under demi john cloches, planted some more inside the poly along with some fennel and kohl rabi, transplanted some more herbs and watered my stuff inside, my parsnips are showing  ;D

We planted 10 rows of potatoes... Epicure, Red Dukes, Ballydoon and Charlotte... and dug out a load of bindweed from the boundary.. now we have active neighbours we might beat it... as we are both working on it...  :)

Sowed a few carrots in the back garden.    ;D

having a nice time at home sowing a few more seeds - teasle and lavender for the meadow and cabbages and leeks for the allotments - will be potting on time soon, how time flies  :D

Yesterday, I planted the raspberry canes that I bought in France last year. 

Today I will be pricking out tomato seedlings into small pots, then I need to sort out my seeds, put the peas into soak and see what else needs sowing.

transplanted more tomatoes, sowed calabrese and more lollo lettuce, transplanted grown lollo out under demijohn cloches, found some of the outside earlies are up, under fleece  ;D
finished transplanting the antirrhinums, thank goodness !!!