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Cut down the old (autumn) raspberry canes, cleaned out the hen coop and threw some manure onto 3 veg plots. Should be planting the shallots and 2 blackcurrant plants tomorrow.

Just been on lotty and done some pottering about in GH...nice to see garlic bulbils have started to come up and Galina's walking onions and babbinton leek.. ;D I've started to do watering now.. ::)
I'm really itching get going with soil outside..but it is not ready yet..too cold and wet.
In mean while...more to sow indoors... ;D

OH has done a lot of clearing... I was interrupted by giving blood and stuff...
Have dug some parsnips and leeks for tea..  :)

In the greenhouse - sowed several lots of broad beans that will (if all goes well) be transplanted in a few weeks time.

Came home and transplanted some more tomato plants and sowed some corno rosso pepper seeds  ;D

Tranplanted toms and cucumbers its been very mild here for the past 2 days and nights there is heating in the greenhouse just for frost protection. :) Lost half my broad beans was not going to buy any new seed this year will wait and see what happens and what weather does  :(

Bought some multicompost in readiness (I wont have enough of my own saved stuff)............has anyone else noticed the small print recently "not suitable for seeds"? That's because there will be so many lumps in it, soon sorted with a sieve  ;). They really want to sell you pre-sieved stuff for 3 times the price!  :o

Ninny

oohh ninny,not noticed that,which brand are you using?
OH knocked a new raised bed together which we soon filled with our own compost and horse muck,ready for transplating eight asparagus plants tomorrow.Our lottie mate has given up her plot and donated the plants to us

I've been sowing seeds into cocoa compost, the blocks you soak. So far, the tomatoes and peppers love it, don't think it's suitable for very small seeds though. We have 3 bags of mole soil I'm going to mix with vermiculite and try smaller seeds in that. Transplanted my minibel tomatoes and some of the smaller yellow ones a kind friend on here sent for my Neice's small plot  ;D

It's the Homebase own "multicompost plus". Hubby (not a gardener) and I had good look at all the different brands from the best to the worst and they all said it!

Manics, I've not seen those, but I do prefer soils.  :)

Ninny

Says everything i think

From this to this, nearly there  ;D

Looks impressive!

davyw1. Cool picture! It does indeed say everything.

I managed to move the pea wigwam without doing any damage to either me or it, and sowed just a few very early peas at the base of it. Just in case. :)
Did a bit of hoeing and tidying up around the onion beds.

Ooh! And I quarter-filled the wheelbarrow with mole-hill soil on he way back through the playing fields. :) I'll be sowing leeks and stuff in it as soon as the time is right.   8)
I'm determined to give this Moon-planting business a go this year. It won't cost anything to find if it helps either, which is nice.  ;D

I wish I was on your site, Manics, it seems to have everything an allotment site should have!

Quote from: caroline7758 on February 18, 2012, 09:58:16
I wish I was on your site, Manics, it seems to have everything an allotment site should have!

Well, we're getting there,  ;D
more for the special needs and people with a dicky bladder. The club shuts bank holidays, too  so we had to do something

Lovely work Manics.
This morning even though it was raining we planted three fruit trees and moved all of the rhubarb into its permanent position. had a cuppa and a chat in the pavilion.

I bought a 50L bag of miracle grow, grow your own, fruit and vegtable compost for £4.99
I've sowed 4x Tigerella's
6x Yellow Bell Peppers
And 4x shallots in pots
After your post Manics, I had a look in my cupboard and found a Coco peat block thats been there for years will it be OK for Tommies when I plant them on into black buckits.   :-\     :D

Sowed the first seeds of the season (all inside)

Sweet peas
Violas
Gaura
Poached egg plant
Broad beans
Leeks
beetroot
peppers
Basil
Sweet Marjoram
dill
mint

I was a bit worried about the compost as it is from last year and I think it froze last week, but we shall see!

It feels good to have started. :D