Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: noshed on May 22, 2006, 14:20
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I've got a whole week off for the allotment - and it's raining and blowing a gale! I'm choosing to ignore it at the moment but I got very muddy this morning. The only good thing is the weeds come up very easily.
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I empathise with you. I too have taken a week off work and intended to spend a lot of time down the lottie. finished work friday, spent all day sat and sun in bed with flu like symptoms and went out today in rain and wind. Weather is forecast much of the same for the week :(
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This is driving me potty - the soil is too wet to work. I've never been so far behind.
The greenhouse at home is full to the brim with plants for the plot and the big greenhouse that is still just a pile of bits.
On the plus side - getting on with a lot on the web.
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I have a compost bin that needs going up to my patch, loads of stuff to go in it and a pair of wellies crying out to be worn and all it is doing is blooming raining! even the kids are aching to get up there and dig!! got them well trained. Joking apart I really can't be doing with rain. i know its needed and all that but its just too wet!!!!
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its a glorious day for us in S.Wales today :) boiling hehehehe had a lil shower this morning but nothing to moan about :)
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Heavy showers here, but got the grass cut earlier on, planted the last of the onions out and sowed some leeks.
Then dodged out of the rain and had lunch. Sun is out again now but the ground is very wet.
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It was beautiful here at 6am but went a little cloudy later. Couldn't take advantage of it though, I'm not too well and went for a lie down at midday. Just woke up. Getting over the cold so now the tum decides to play up.
Scatter my ashes on plot 29 :)
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Better today - I didn't get quite so muddy.
Had a fight with an old blackberry bush I've inherited. I had to savage it with the secateurs to get it to a state where I could tie it into wires. Unless it has a fantastic crop I might dig it up in the autumn. At least it can't say it hasn't been warned!
I've put a pic of my most prolific weed in the album. Not quite sure what it is but it comes up quite easily.
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Marvellous afternoon. Had to put my sun hat on. Had my own lettuce and radish for tea. Planting out my tomato plants tomorrow. Amazing what a bit of sun does.
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It was a lovely day here in Cheshire too - snuck the afternoon off and went to the plot. BUT the soil is really wet still.
Weird weather this year to say the least.
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Fab day for me, done LOADS lol
Had a meeting with my boss 2day and im having my own veg patch in work, ( i work in a care home, so all veg will be given to the kitchen for the residents) but thats not till nxt yr anyway :)
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Good one phoenix.
It has been sunny and warm all day, and I was at the office. Bought another water butt (for the garden) yesterday and now it stands half full while the original one is empty. :x
You have no idea how I want to swear.
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Tipping with rain again. Still it should clear up later. I want to get my tomatoes in.
So now I'm just trying to connect all my boxes together so we can use the video recorder. Just as I thought - need another scart lead.
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It's raining here too. I did a little yesterday, but I'm off work at the moment with cold symptoms (sounds the same thing that everyone else has had!) so I don't really feel up to being in the garden anyway :(
It's supposed to be reasonably dry over the bank holiday.
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Well, it's rained here, like it has everywhere else it seems for the last 2 weeks. It was nice yesterday but wet again overnight & dull this a/m.....went down the ground tonight, heavy loam...not clay, just genuine heavy loam & it was dry enough after a day of fairish blustery weather to get on to put some Bean & Sweet Pea canes in. Incredible.....old railway line next door looks like a river ( it's had ducks on it this week !). If we get some Sun next week the weeds will go berserk !!
Hope to sort some pics out this weekend, anyone advise on how to host ? I've got access to Photbucket & can post links...or is ther some (easy !!) way to put them on the site ? (SORRY>>>>Ignore last, should have looked at the post above !!>>>>>)...can see link now.
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Hi Comic
You are welcome to use the Album facility on these forums, you know. Just look at the box at the top left of the page on the forums..
Must find a way to make that more noticeable.
Rained here this morning - yesterday I gave up trying to plant as the holes just filled with water!
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its foggy wet and horrible here 2day :) not stopping me planting out more peas tho lol
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I'm fed up with the weather as well nice and sunny when I'm at work then rain and I've got a new toy to try out as well. Bought a strimmer to clear the nettles and what do we get rain rain and more rain
:x
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Yes it's raining here again. I suppose it does fill up the butts for a long, hot summer...
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Well, the early bird approach paid off this morning....having put the bean canes up last night after that dry day, I planted the runner plants out from & the Sweet Peas by Dog Walking time of 9am.....started raining whilst we were out.....didn't stop until after 2. Just been down to get some salad for lunch & the paths are under water !!
Sweet Corn will have to wait !!
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constant rain in addlestone, getting on my wick. rumours of fine weather on the morrow.... we shall see. :roll:
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Just got roasting sun here. It is boring honestly getting sun all the time, I am actually pleased when we wake up to a cloudy sky in the summer. The flowers will soon be past, the geraniums on the patio in tubs have been really great this year. Wish I could keep them in flower right through the hot spell. Just wish I knew for sure the house sale was going through so I could really get planning as to what I am going to plant in my hopefully new garden :(
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It's not been too bad here today - some light showers this morning but dry for the afternoon. I felt much better this morning so I managed to get out and do some weeding, get the compost bin in place etc. We have hundreds (well, alright, ten) large tubs / planters left by the previous owners that have run to weed, so I had a go at clearing some of those out too! I'd like to move the lettuces up into them - they don't seem to like the fine sandy soil we have in the main beds very much :(
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For the past fortnight, we've had mostly sun with occasional heavy showers (always at twenty past five, just as I'm arriving after work for an hour on the plot before going home), but the constant factor has been high winds from the north or east. It has really taught me the importance of hardening plants before planting them out, as I've lost at least three cauliflowers, one or two of my other brassicas and a marrow. :cry:
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Where oh where is the sun! Just spoke to my parents (they live in Greece) - they have just had courgettes, tomatoes, garlic and potatoes from their veggie patch!!! Thanks Dad :( It is like the middle of winter here, gale force winds, torrential rain and no end in sight! At least we got some spinach and a few raddish from our plot! :lol: