What I did on the plot today - 2011

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Rangerkris

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #1545 on: May 29, 2011, 19:55 »
Planted more stuff out potted on my melons,sown more cucumbers and beetroot watered all the plot. Picked up the children from mother inlaw and having a nice evening doing nothing.
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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #1546 on: May 29, 2011, 20:42 »
sorted out the shed, organised everything into boxes / containers to give me more space on the shelves, tried not to stress about the beans that have been ravaged by the wind, and made myself feel better by picking another pound of strawberries  :D
Link to my first attempt at a diary: http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=113513.0

Comments & suggestions on my diary welcome here: http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=113518.0

Spend ytd: £293.44 (setting up plot 29 has been expensive) Harvest ytd: £163.93 (as at 8/8)

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #1547 on: May 30, 2011, 04:31 »
Harvested the last of my spring greens.  Harvested red onions to make way for the brussel sprouts, calabrese, cauli and swedes that I planted in their place.  Watered everything.  Weeded my brassica bed before putting the nets over again

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #1548 on: May 30, 2011, 10:10 »
 :D rain stopped  :D happy happy!!! didn't do much, played with chainsaw little bit. one すぎ(kind of cedar) is down and "sliced" in 4meters.
 all crops growing well - first batch of potatoes have lots of flowers ;) and some small(they have to be big ones), cherry size, tomatoes on the plants. i didn't use any vinyl houses or polytunnels, so maybe little bit late for first harvest, but it's "open field" plants and all of them chemical-free.

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #1549 on: May 30, 2011, 11:07 »
Nothing, the rain has done it all and I'm off to work till 10
All the way from my allotment in beautiful Derbyshire. I'm in year 3 of my allotment and wish I'd caught the bug years ago, things growing from strength to strength

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #1550 on: May 30, 2011, 13:20 »
nothing not stopped raining yet and looks like its going to be like this all day  :mad:
I came I saw I grew my own veg

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #1551 on: May 30, 2011, 14:06 »
weeded a 2m wide strip across the end of my plot, cut the hedge back, and planted up the pumpkins and butter nut squash plants.
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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #1552 on: May 30, 2011, 18:03 »
Did quite a lot today - dug out a new bed ready for planting, mowed the grass area (only dug around half the plot so far), earthed up potatoes a bit. OH planted some peas and sweet peas. Watered, bit of weeding, tidying...tired now but well worth it.

Lucky to have decent weather on a bank holiday for a change :)

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #1553 on: May 30, 2011, 19:09 »
Removed the dead cukes from the greenhouse and replaced them with tomato plants. Could not do much else - after a promising start it rained and hailed all day - with some thunder thrown in for good measure.

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #1554 on: May 30, 2011, 19:14 »
cut the grass
it wasnt me i didnt touch it!

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #1555 on: May 30, 2011, 19:28 »
What plot?  :blink: Where?  :unsure:

I really must stop waiting for the almost-rain to clear and get down there tomorrow for a couple of hours between shifts.  ::)
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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #1556 on: May 30, 2011, 20:01 »
Tried to cheer up my poor wind battered beans with some seaweed food, and planted some more seed in case that doesn't work.  Took the plastic bottle cloches off the celery and sweetcorn now the wind has finally died down. Weeded a bit. 

Noticed one of the cabbages has been got at by a slug so put down some sheep poo anti slug stuff. Another is all puckered, I think that is supposed to be mealy aphid that causes that, but couldn't see anything on it.  So sprayed with the garlic spray. 

Came home and noticed my carrots in the patio barrel seem to have the carrot fly already, boo hoo!  Will cover up the ones at the allotment tomorrow.

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #1557 on: May 30, 2011, 21:11 »
Tomatoes, peppers and cukes all out in the greenhouse border - so I expect a frost tonight  ::)

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #1558 on: May 30, 2011, 22:31 »
ever the pessimist Lardman  ::)  :D

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #1559 on: May 30, 2011, 22:36 »
Put the roof on the new shed, made up a couple of raised beds ready for the soil delivery tomorrow, got the family painting the shed before rain stopped play.


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