Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: adekun on December 18, 2006, 08:55
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I've been watching my onions become submerged (http://blog.adekun.com), from indoors. I did manage to transplant some strawberries at the start of the month.
I'd like to hear what everybody else is doing around this time.
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Im fighting a bitter battle against tree roots, stones and compacted earth to double dig a new potato patch. Ive now got it looking like a miniature drift mine.
Got me soft fruit bushes to put in though as well
other than that im growing cress in two small trays full of cotton wool and waiting for me mushrooms to be big enough to eat
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I'm battleing with drainage, pulling up roots (switchgrass I think) and I'll be finishing off my fence this week as well as helping old Jim with his.
I'm hoping someone on our site can spare me a few brussels, just for the old seasonal treat. If not though I can still buy them pretty fresh.
My home brew turned out really good, off topic though, think I'll post a piccy.
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as little as possible, my s/ disk isnt quite right yet.
hoping to get the galley slave (long suffering wife, Jo ) to give me a hand to move shed and build its extension.
next years potato patch needs rotavating...plenty of time yet..
after Christmas, i hope to get some red baron onions in.
sleep, eat and watch crumby films on the box.
thats about the lot, methinks. :lol:
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done nothing for a couple of weeks been far to wet,
1 when the weather breaks i need to build a couple more compost bins for all the leaves ive been collecting,
2 get to the local manure guy and order another load of muck
3 flag a path down one side of the plots
4 finish digging away the giant mound of topsoil/compost and spread it everywhere
5 make a raised bed for my herb garden
6 decorate the kitchen but that can wait :D
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Speading compost
Reorganising paths
pruning
building some beds where it's a bit confusing for the vague
perfecting details of my greenhouse
making sure the pub is keeping the beer properly
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6 decorate the kitchen but that can wait :D
now, now, lets not get carried away! :D
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finished on my plots ,just watching my Christmas veggies sweeten up ready , goose was still wandering around at 7 am when i opened up the sheds ,she and 3 of her mates joined each other in a hanging about sesi0on in the cold store by 745am 4 geese 6 capons 6 normal well fed chickens 1 guinea fowl and a couple of norfolk black turkeys all plucked on the bigham by 9.30 am cooling down days werk done in a couple hours i had to go on a shoot meeting up at the second drive of the morning . my first job on meeetin them was to bollock a gun for low shooting .he though he had got away with it and didnt see me at the back making my way across the field ,the beaters were fortunate that they was not closer to the wood edge , had tey been someone could well have been blinded for Christmas . fining him £50 he payed up with a humph complaint ,i did remind him that had the beaters been hit he would have been dismissed from the field with no recompense . a long hard freezing day ended none to soon for my liking 3.30pm saw me paying all the beaters there £20 and a brace wishing them who i would not see till next year a happy holiday , i then found to my delight that someone had shot the white pheasant and she had been fined £25 also so i was £75 up for the day , so making sure the 200 birds and 10 mixed was hung to cool and be ready for morning i left to come home, thats when my troubles started .driving over a small flood at henstead ford i saw to my disbelief a ffffff lunatic in a daeoo flash by to close and then splash water so dfar up my car i saw nothing as i left the road on my side driving into a drainage cut in the verge my right wheel slamming into the rut . the ass who put me there stopped on the other side of the ford ,out got a kid of 17 yrs . apologising that he hadnt passed his test long etc etc etc he offered to help me get the car out which we did .my front end right side crunched in just the wing .easy to pull out so i could get on my way . swapping details i got home 45 mins late . i called the garage to come and check the damage . thats easy he said i can do that by morning .. £75 he asked .. bang goes my blooming bonus ... :x and my grand daughter asks did u have fun nandad ?/ :roll:
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Hi everyone I havent been on the site much this year but have been keeping an eye on what others are doing. Good reading and lots of smiles had from that ! Well I am doing what most others seem to be doing.........reorganising my paths, managed to get new strawberry plants in before the frost started, praying a lot for dryer days to finish the digging, got the onions and broad beans in the end of last month. Been babysitting quite a bit as grandson had a cold (how come they only want you on dry sunny days?) Oh and as I hail originally from the North East cleaning everything in the house for new year as we believe that if the house is clean it stays that way all the year.
Well it might ONE of these years........ :roll:
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Still waiting for the ground to dry up a bit so I can carry on digging my plot. Got to get in the polytunnel and clear the last of the tomato plants. I'm leaving a few chillie plants for now as they are fruiting again, but need to get it all dug over and covered to keep it warm, oh and got to manure it. Then must get last year's compost heap moved. lovely bit of soil now and replace the bricks and get another one started.
Trying to wish lots of growth on my brussels which are bonsai's, and my new potatoes and carrots which are in pots in the polytunnel.
Another reason for not doing much out there is that I've been crossstitching the grandchildren's Christmas cards. Got the last one finished today, and now all posted off.
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Not doing very much at all except harvesting from the plot and garage store, so am in grave danger of looking plumper than the turkey at this rate!
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Wondering if it will dry up enough to finish digging over and why Val's still got begonias flowering in the garden,
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Still harvesting.Last of the chillis out.Watching sprouting brocolli,some got terminal aphids so 2 best plants left and the have now developed strong leaf growth so fingers crossed.Have put down wood shreddings on the paths,manured and covered empty beds.Some paths still to dig and OH is going to build some very deep beds for hot beds.Have now to go into the mist and move some rocket which is growing strongly outside,it should have finished as it is in a pot that we stand our Christmas tree in.Once I`ve cleaned the house from top to bottom(In law arrival iminent),I will sit back and enjoy Christmas.No rain forcast so I may just slip out and potter in the garden .
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it's funny how you develop the urge to clean the house thoroughly from top to bottom when the in-laws are imminent - I have to do the same thing.
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It`s the unspoken criticism or the fear they might peer behind the setee,I don`t bother if my relatives come.That`s on top of the fact that you are also somehow responsible for buying in law presies!.
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Im spending my time looking through all the seed mags and placing my orders list is getting very long - my lottie will look mighty full if all theseeds come up I am planning to plant may need to be ruthless with my planting selections!!!
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just posted my lotty application form.. cannot wait..
Just dug my garden patch (again) and carried out a general garden tidy up at the weekend. The greenhouse is due for a winter clean during my Christmas holidays.. 2 weeks away from work - bliss
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Spread manure.
Moved strawberrys.
Leave collecting.
Skip raiding.
Sorting out shed.
Greasing fence.
Pulling parsnips.
Collecting cabbages.
With Noshed on this one checking Stella is poured at right temperature.
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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When I get the time I will be
- digging a trench around my plot
- making raised beds
-getting hold of some more maure
Today i have wished the kids would dissappear :wink: and gone for a walk to collect greenery for decorations, was hoping to find some mistletoe, but couldn't :cry: had a clearout in the kids rooms.
Frey
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it's funny how you develop the urge to clean the house thoroughly from top to bottom when the in-laws are imminent - I have to do the same thing...
reminds me i have to spread some manure as welll :wink: :lol:
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Waiting for the Swamp Sorry plot to dry out so I can get some digging done. Sow some onions in the glasshouse over Christmas
Other than that wher'd I leave me beer I know it were round here somewhere
Ahhhhh found it Hic
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... some weeding ... planted a few more broad beans and tucked em up nice and warm under a cloche ... dug carrots, parsnips and the last of the beets.
I've ordered a few seeds. I made a wreath for my front door, fed the Christmas cake, made mince pies, ordered the goose ... :D
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Wellies isn't that a dangerous cake if you have to feed it most people eat the cake noit get eaten by it. Tee Hee I take it you mean feed it brandy Hic
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went around last Sunday and did last of the digging over,frost can do the rest :lol: just got a few leeks left in at moment to pick ,oh and also my onions,red and japanese which hopefully will be ok.
just pickled last of chillis before they start turning.
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Simple really, getting wasted and going to loads of gigs. I love this time of the year.
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Lucky you Aidy! Starved of hard punk here in Spain! have to go back to UK every now and again to get a punk fix and a good mosh!!!
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You must have been at Wasted In Blackpool??
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yes and I was Biscomb and looking forward to next years, shame your not up in Barcelona, I know there is a couple of venues there just off the Ramblas that have punk on, seen a few bands there. Oh well back to my hangover. Merry Christmas
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TOP BANANNA!! a punk gardener!! Year after year we are at HITS/WASTED/REBELLION!!!! Fancy meeting for a beer?? been to a squat gig in Barca in the convent squat set in the grounds, brilliant! punk it up!!!!
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Yep, if your over next year we will have to arrange it.
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The telly is on, I'm on the settee, on my own and on the gin. Bliss :wink: Big party tomorrow though. Thoughts of veg set aside until the inevitable hangover subsides. :)