What I did on the plot today - 2014

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2014
« Reply #870 on: May 03, 2014, 21:20 »
Runners, onions, horseradish and rocket seeds in.
Fleeced up the runners and courgettes in case of frost.
Earthed up the spuds.
Weeded strawberries and mulched with straw.

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2014
« Reply #871 on: May 03, 2014, 21:24 »
Strung the bottom row of string and canes around the beans and peas.
Anne

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2014
« Reply #872 on: May 03, 2014, 21:31 »
First proper weeding of the brassicas. Tried to readjust their hooped netting and gave up. I think I'm going to go down the route of a timber batten frame. Said I never would. I really don't want my plot to look like a prison camp.

Congratulated myself on the lovely foxgloves. Forget-me-nots are almost over already !  :(

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2014
« Reply #873 on: May 03, 2014, 22:50 »
Planted out PSB, late brussels and globe artichoke.  Weeded the shallots.  sowed carrots, salsify and scorzonera.  Had a beer

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2014
« Reply #874 on: May 03, 2014, 23:35 »
Serviced mower, Mowed the grass and strimmed both the allotments planted out sprouts and more lettuce ,spot of weeding watering gh's and pt, picked some radish netted peas,will do beans tomorrow fleeced french and runner beans earthed up spuds took some more spring onions,busy day  ;)
diggity dig dig

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2014
« Reply #875 on: May 03, 2014, 23:44 »
Went to the lottie after work and found that the fleece covered potatoes had got frostbite! :mad: Just my luck! Will have to make a better job of it next time

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2014
« Reply #876 on: May 04, 2014, 17:09 »
Planted some sweet and chilli peppers in the polytunnel.  Took the sweetcorn to reside in the polytunnel until planting out time.  Dug over new bed on daughter's plot and harvested some pink fir apple potatoes in the process (!).  Planted out Yellow Rynsberger onions and Zebrune shallots.   Picked PSB and some spring onions.

OH trimmed the hedge, fixed new catch on daughter's plot gate, took some unwanted construction materials mainly wood down to the shared recycling plot, and did a bit of preparatory construction work for the new big polytunnel.

So, quite busy really.

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2014
« Reply #877 on: May 04, 2014, 17:27 »
Dug over a couple of the beds and tidied some of the soon to be "garden area"

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2014
« Reply #878 on: May 04, 2014, 17:34 »
Cleaned the chickens out :D

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2014
« Reply #879 on: May 04, 2014, 17:45 »
weeding, planting, sowing, won't look this tidy for much longer  :tongue2:



tatties just starting to poke through and the frost nips em  >:(


« Last Edit: May 04, 2014, 17:46 by jondav14 »
who pinched me marrow?

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2014
« Reply #880 on: May 04, 2014, 18:03 »
Double dug an area about 5m x 3m, still at least 10m x 3m to go but working my way through it all. Then came home via the garden centre and bark-chipped the new bench area and got the bench put in, filled a small raised bed I have with topsoil, planted peas & rocket / lambs lettuce.

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2014
« Reply #881 on: May 04, 2014, 18:22 »
Erected this bargain buy sweet pea frame, which when assembled looked as if it would blow over in the lightest wind,  So I took it down again and put up an old fashioned wigwam.  Much sturdier.
The bits of the frame will come in useful for something I'm sure.

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2014
« Reply #882 on: May 04, 2014, 18:48 »
Perfect digging and weeding conditions, so I dug and weeded all those avoided areas that make the growing area bigger. Still didn't find a place for my surplus brassicas.
Last earth up of potatoes. Watched the bees and insects doing their thing.

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2014
« Reply #883 on: May 04, 2014, 18:53 »
Earthed up the potatoes and made sure they was completely covered, so if there is another frost, they should be fine!!!!

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2014
« Reply #884 on: May 04, 2014, 19:04 »
Put the roof on the fruit cage (actually easier than I was expecting). Split up and planted out one of those boxes of living salad as a start to my lettuce bed - ones from seed are still very small! Decided to cover the bed in netting to stop those pesky birds.

Made some nettle tea and then finally tidied and helped to guide the bramble onto it's wire supports.

Tomorrow's job will be to finish sieving the area for the parsnips and get them sown and clear out some more jungle area.


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