Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Chatting => Chatting on the Plot => Topic started by: New shoot on October 29, 2020, 11:37
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I’m settling down with my notebook to make plans for next year, which I do by crop types.
First on the list has been leafy greens, which we eat by the ton :D I have my seed list and successions planned, plus a rough idea of the plot areas I will be using.
In my head, I am fast forwarding through the year, happily wandering through rows of chard, kale, mustard and various others, picking as I go. It is all coming together. What could possibly go wrong ... ;) :lol:
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:lol: :lol: :lol:
Yup, the weather has me starting my 2021 Excel spreadsheet already, as well :nowink:
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Great thing to do around now, Snows!
I used to have a mock-up spreadsheet in Excel, with every square ft measured out for the thirty-odd beds, and spent ages working out what to put where.
At the first opportunity, I'd start sowing in the spring, and put everything in different spots, and was totally confused by Easter...
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Confused by Easter. As late as that? :lol:
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What could possibly go wrong ... ;) :lol:
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You'll get a telephone call in the middle of your planning to run up the vertical hill in the rain to the allotment to deal with a stray "hen" belonging to who knows at the moment. And that's the planning lost for a week. ;)
Will now have to start again ....
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Confused by Easter. As late as that? :lol:
He’s already confused before he’s begun, it was News not me that started this thread :lol: :lol: :lol:
Growster, just keep taking the pills :nowink:
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Snows, News, Mums, Goosey, Auntie...
...what does it matter if you love everyone..;0)
(Freudian slip just now, 'matter' typed as 'mater'...
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Snows, News, Mums, Goosey, Auntie...
...what does it matter if you love everyone..;0)
(Freudian slip just now, 'matter' typed as 'mater'...
Exactly :D
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Quod erat demonstrandum or hoisted by his own petard? Either way he shot himself in the foot well and truly. :lol:
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Quod erat demonstrandum or hoisted by his own petard? Either way he shot himself in the foot well and truly. :lol:
Allotmenters, scmallotmenters, what does it matter, Goosey..;0)
(goes to medicine cabinet for Iodine to plonk on bullet wound in foot)...
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In my head my garden looks like an area at Kew or Monty's. :D At the moment it has the two fence panels that blew down a couple of weeks ago laying on it where we dragged them. We've replaced the panels as we were worried that as we are on the top of the cliff the wind would gust through the gap and take out the next ones but new ones would make a solid defence.
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The wind has got a lot to answer for. :lol: :lol: Mrs Bouquet
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Like wighty my garden is a cool oasis of beauty. In reality because I don't always agree with the undergardener it's a scene of chaos and confusion. The dog has just started her City and Guilds Level one which involves digging holes in all the borders.
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The dog has just started her City and Guilds Level one which involves digging holes in all the borders.
I have the same thing here, but don't have a dog - luckily, nothing has been 'planted' in said holes - so wonder what is going on? Squirrels looking for tulip bulbs left in last year? Who knows? but I wish they'd dig my allotment for me instead :lol: :lol:
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in some respects i like to sit down on a rainy day when you can't do anything outdoors and draw up some sort of plan what we mite grow and where on the plot it mite be on the open ground for our squashes beans onions and our potato crop what varieties should we go for?
or in the raised beds brassicas leeks swede its endless then i look through the seed catalogues and see all those lovely seed we could be growing [I wish] pure Fantasy or reality that is the question it usually ends with my wife telling me where to sow i think she has a plan in her head because she never shares it with me till its spring. anyway i always order the seed and then tell her after I've ordered them :lol: :lol:
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As we have a golf course at the back of us and a common in the front we are a 'through route' for wildlife. Boris likes to dig holes in the lawn (badger). At least we don't have to protect from some of the wildlife that you have all mentioned.