What I did on the allotment today

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Paul Plots

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Re: What I did on the allotment today
« Reply #660 on: May 03, 2010, 00:13 »
I tucked the tatties in as they was peeping up above the soil - again!  ::)
Never keep your wish-bone where your back-bone ought to be.

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Manlea1

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Re: What I did on the allotment today
« Reply #661 on: May 03, 2010, 00:36 »
Did some weeding and watering in the greenhouse and that was it,too cold and wet to do much else  :blink:

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Re: What I did on the allotment today
« Reply #662 on: May 03, 2010, 06:31 »
Hedge trimmed, bean frame erected, grass clipped, general tidy up and borders edged!!! Back up today to plant beans and prepare pumpkin mound.

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Re: What I did on the allotment today
« Reply #663 on: May 03, 2010, 07:30 »
Rotavated bed for second earlies "Charlotte" as going in today. Weeded between onions and shallots and garlic, weeded between carrots, phew lots of weeds now.
I'm queen of my own compost heap and I'm getting used to the smell.

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Re: What I did on the allotment today
« Reply #664 on: May 03, 2010, 08:58 »
I didn't
small, Welsh and almost certainly bonkers, but can be tamed with Talisker, if required

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Re: What I did on the allotment today
« Reply #665 on: May 03, 2010, 10:42 »
Seemd like a good year for parsnips- just about every seed has germinated.
Wish it was the same with carrots - very little showing yet.
Maincrop and 2nd earlies potatoes are through- no sign of first earlies on the plot yet, although those in pots are racing away and fully eartrhed up.
Put in a late double row of briad beans to see if we can get a decent late crop and
set a row of mange tout peas.
Little by little a bird makes its nest!

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Re: What I did on the allotment today
« Reply #666 on: May 03, 2010, 16:18 »
I'm way behind with mine after getting a bruised foot last week when the darned dog stood on it. I've just dug over one of my spud beds and planted 40 maincrop Golden Wonder. A day of rest tomorrow as my wife will be out in the car and then on weds, I have another spud bed to dig and 40 King Teds to go in. My 1st earlies are in three plastic dustbins and are about 6" high. I've just covered them and put the fleece back over them.
I'm hurting just a little.........................!  :lol:

Oh.............. I nearly forgot. Cut a dozen stalks of rhubarb. Crumble tonight!  :)
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Re: What I did on the allotment today
« Reply #667 on: May 03, 2010, 16:56 »
Covered spuds with some bubble wrap and sowed a load of french beans (thanks Scabs) in paper pots  :)

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Re: What I did on the allotment today
« Reply #668 on: May 03, 2010, 17:04 »
Today I hoed between my rows of Onions (by the way a plotter on here suggested that you hoe 10 mins at the start and the same at the end of every Lottie's session and for me its really working), then I built a net cage for my brassicas to go in then I planted out some flowers I had in the G/house.

I have started the second digging of where my peas will go and that's it. Oh plus numerous tea and chat breaks.
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Re: What I did on the allotment today
« Reply #669 on: May 03, 2010, 17:25 »
On Plot 6b, erected Pea netting, sowed some Salsify in a raised bed and covered up the spuds that were showing with Grass cuttings just in case there is a frost. In the Greenhouse potted on some Tomatoes and sought refuge from the rain showers.
On Plot 20 started to Double Dig and weed as I have only just taken it on.

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Re: What I did on the allotment today
« Reply #670 on: May 03, 2010, 18:19 »
Did another tub of carrots, got out netting to cover strawberries that are flowering but then came hailstone and the downpour. Me and my nephew were sheltering in my 6x4 shed  :wacko:. We waited for it to ease off, shoved everything back in shed and then made a dash to the carpark  >:(
I came I saw I grew my own veg

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Re: What I did on the allotment today
« Reply #671 on: May 03, 2010, 18:30 »
Did a couple of hours rotovating ready for a good few tons of manure going on tomorrow then will rotavate it again and just leave it for a few weeks to settle  :) oh and painted the greenhouses in gloss white  :D

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Re: What I did on the allotment today
« Reply #672 on: May 03, 2010, 18:45 »
I went down to the lottie just for a couple of hours and watered all the stuff in the greenhouse,sowed half a row of swede 15 feet long in one of the beds.Did some weeding around garlic. The weather was too cold to hang around so called it a day.

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Re: What I did on the allotment today
« Reply #673 on: May 03, 2010, 19:25 »
oh and painted the greenhouses in gloss white  :D

That sounds like a fashion disaster  :tongue2:

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Re: What I did on the allotment today
« Reply #674 on: May 03, 2010, 19:35 »
S*d all, I took the day off and went to sunny Porthmadog, North Wales :)
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