What I did on the plot today 2018

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Re: What I did on the plot today 2018
« Reply #195 on: May 06, 2018, 20:41 »
Sowed 2 rows of beetroot & 4 of peas, only 5ft rows, weeded in between more of the slabbed paths & kept a lookout for mares tail springing up
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Re: What I did on the plot today 2018
« Reply #196 on: May 06, 2018, 22:47 »
I'm also having to start dealing with the mare's tail again, though there seems to be a lot less now after two years of ripping it out and relentless hoeing.

Went down tonight to plant out sweetcorn and my second sowing of broadbeans into their respective beds and just beat the sunset. All the seedlings have gone into turbo growth mode over the last few days so nearly everything will get planted over the next week. Love this time of year!
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Re: What I did on the plot today 2018
« Reply #197 on: May 10, 2018, 10:18 »
Have double rotovated, dug manured, and planted, peas, beans, beetroot, potatoes, carrots radisehs and lettuces!
Now wait and see time.
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Re: What I did on the plot today 2018
« Reply #198 on: May 10, 2018, 21:40 »
Earlier this week I plated a row of strawberries, mulched raspberries, watered and weeded.

Tonight I have sowed beetroot, sweetcorn and cucumbers. I potted on some cauliflowers and kale. I also weeded and watered.

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Re: What I did on the plot today 2018
« Reply #199 on: May 12, 2018, 11:27 »
A good load of weeding, planted out about 30 pea plants, fed the garlic and overwintering onions and finished digging a big bed for maincrop potatoes over the course of this week.

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Re: What I did on the plot today 2018
« Reply #200 on: May 12, 2018, 20:03 »
Weeding, feeding the compost (currently at 62c in the middle) and giving the plot a good soaking as we've had very little rain for a couple of weeks. As the germination was so good I had an extra Mammoth Pumpin plant that I couldn't give away, so rather than compost it I cleared a space in the woodchip path, dug in some MPC and planted it out. I have a horrible feeling it's going to be in the way later in the summer...
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Re: What I did on the plot today 2018
« Reply #201 on: May 12, 2018, 20:54 »
Went to the local Horticulture Society shop, and entered the pumpkin competition.

At the plot I weeded, cut grass, painted some brackets, planted out a few more shallots and forked over a bed ready to sow some beans.

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Re: What I did on the plot today 2018
« Reply #202 on: May 12, 2018, 21:57 »
Added3 bags of municipal green waste to horse muck and mixed it well. Looking good ready for my no dig beds next year.
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Re: What I did on the plot today 2018
« Reply #203 on: May 13, 2018, 20:28 »
Earthed up first and second earlies, weeded and planted out some perpetual spinach. 

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Re: What I did on the plot today 2018
« Reply #204 on: May 13, 2018, 21:36 »
I looked at all the things I need to be getting on with... Sunday is a fiercely protected day here so no gardening allowed (although I did have a little tidy up of my seedlings, I hope no one saw! ☺️)

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Re: What I did on the plot today 2018
« Reply #205 on: May 14, 2018, 07:56 »
I looked at all the things I need to be getting on with... Sunday is a fiercely protected day here so no gardening allowed (although I did have a little tidy up of my seedlings, I hope no one saw! ☺️)

😱 by whom? When I worked Sundays were fiercely protected as my gardening day 😊

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Re: What I did on the plot today 2018
« Reply #206 on: May 14, 2018, 10:20 »
First of the lettuces have pushed through the soil.
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Re: What I did on the plot today 2018
« Reply #207 on: May 14, 2018, 15:48 »
Planted a few more cauliflowers and broccoli. Sowed spinach, two types of beetroot, a free packet of radish seed named "Red Head", and three varieties of lettuce.  All just short rows so that I can keep continuity by regular sowing of a few and often.  That's the theory, anyway, but they always seem to catch each other up. Carrots, swede, spring onions and the first radish are showing now.  Still no sign of parsnips, but they do tend to sulk for a while.

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Re: What I did on the plot today 2018
« Reply #208 on: May 14, 2018, 19:50 »
Tender the strawberry plants and netted them to keep the birds off, weeding and gave the hedge a trim. It's growing season now  ;)

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Re: What I did on the plot today 2018
« Reply #209 on: May 14, 2018, 21:27 »
Me and the girl watered and mulched some pots with straw.



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