What I did on the plot today - 2013

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Ashurstman

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2013
« Reply #2025 on: July 30, 2013, 18:28 »
Collected my £20 greenhouse from 3 plots down and got 75% of it back together. Picked lettuce and spring onions for tea. Also got a text from sister in law saying my new spuds are best she has tasted ( she works as a cook!).

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2013
« Reply #2026 on: July 30, 2013, 20:05 »
Took out the peas and mangetout, they are finished.  Took the netting off the strawberries and cut off the runners.
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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2013
« Reply #2027 on: July 31, 2013, 10:08 »
General tidy up really. Weeding, cut the grass paths, pulled a bit of Garlic, dug up some spuds. Also planted another 18 Cauliflower plants.

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2013
« Reply #2028 on: July 31, 2013, 12:47 »
Tidied up and weeded asparagus bed. Sowed 2 rows of french beans just in time before it chucked it down!

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2013
« Reply #2029 on: July 31, 2013, 12:51 »
Hubby took up 4 slabs from the front garden, and came back with more courgettes and a bucket of weeds. Now all sat in the space he cleared on the drive  ::)Ho hum cant moan unless i can do it myself.

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2013
« Reply #2030 on: July 31, 2013, 14:48 »
13 days to go BQ.  :D

But then i will be on light duties  >:( honestly nothing is ever simple. Why didnt we go for a december birth  ::)

Got a few neighbours eyeing up my slabs so more will be moved tonight, theiving £&@(?/!

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2013
« Reply #2031 on: July 31, 2013, 14:50 »
Made a new brassica bed with higher hoops and netting for my PSB and other winter brassicas, attacked some more of the large jungle area (only managed to clear 3 barrows of weeds from there today) and then did some general tidying/weeding.

New shed arrives tomorrow....

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2013
« Reply #2032 on: July 31, 2013, 14:59 »
Not a lot - it's pouring down!!

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2013
« Reply #2033 on: July 31, 2013, 15:33 »
Same here but I suppose it saves me watering this evening!!!

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2013
« Reply #2034 on: July 31, 2013, 15:39 »
That was us yesterday! Today if is grey and cool but dry so I managed to get lots done! I prefer to work when it is cooler...

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2013
« Reply #2035 on: July 31, 2013, 22:06 »
Took down the pea plants, took out the old strawberries.  Picked 4lb gooseberries, dabbed tcp on wounds.

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2013
« Reply #2036 on: August 01, 2013, 16:03 »
Spent half an hour with my arms above my head trying to unwind the pot-grown climbing French beans from the wires near the apex of my greenhouse without damaging anything. These are the same beans I positioned on the same side as the tomatoes thinking that they would be over and done with by the time the tomatoes had got that high.

I thought wrong - they aren't over and done with, and the toms are up to the apex, but my patience was definitely done for so I resorted to the kitchen scissors in the end!  :mad:

Removed the sugarsnap peas earlier than expected due to pea thrips ruining the later pods, and sowed some mixed salad leaves and radish in their place.
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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2013
« Reply #2037 on: August 01, 2013, 16:20 »
Went up this morning whilst my plot neighbour H was there to have a chat, even though we spent a couple of hours together yesterday at another plotters funeral-RIP Alfie. Such a lovely man always laughing & joking, died suddenly the week before last.
Picked more blackcurrants,redcurrants,cherries & a mix of yellow & green french beans. Tied the runners to the poles-why do they always want to go up someone else's pole :wacko: Promiscuous I reckon.
back home swept the patio & applied Patio cleaner- H*ro- to try & get of the black mould spots that appeared over  last year & the winter. Mr S jet washed it a couple of weeks ago & although it made a difference it's still stained. Got Indian sandstone so I suspect not ideal for our climate.
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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2013
« Reply #2038 on: August 01, 2013, 16:39 »
New shed delivered at 11.30. It is roughly 600m from the closest delivery point to my plot so I had to drag it all down there in 30 degrees +. Needless to say I was a but worn out and grumpy by the time I had done that so building it was not high on the agenda! Looked at the weather forecast and our 5 dry days have now turned into a storm early tw morning so I had better go back down there and cover the vulnerable bits like the chipboard floor and roof grrr...

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2013
« Reply #2039 on: August 01, 2013, 19:55 »
Nothing for me, been having really low back pain all day and its getting worse so i am sat on the sofa and my chutney hasnt been done yet.

Hubby has however gone the plot with a flea in his ear as he hasnt watered or rubbed eggs off my cabbages so i have had to ditch about 40 they were seriously wrecked  >:( i am not a happy bunny to say the least.


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