What I did on the plot today - 2011

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #795 on: March 24, 2011, 07:40 »
Went last night and aplied another dose of Glyphosate to finish off the rest of the couch and docks.
Had a good look around for new ideas. ;)

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #796 on: March 24, 2011, 09:17 »
Put a row of spuds in and some peas. Had to water everything - the ground is bone dry!
There's more comfrey here than you can shake a stick at!

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #797 on: March 24, 2011, 09:26 »
I watered my autumn planted onion sets and garlic.  These all survived well despite the winter, and I want them out of the ground as early as possible in June so that the brassica plans can go in for the autumn and winter crops.  So I am giving them lots of TLC and I'd talk to them if I thought it would encourage them on.  Cutting it fine I think.

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #798 on: March 24, 2011, 11:42 »
Am so annoyed at the gorgeous weather, I'm still ill and can't do a thing! aargh s*d's law

Wish I could have a whisky, I'm 7 months pregnant so will not be doing much else now apart from sitting around being a fat elephant and (hopefully) watching things grow!

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #799 on: March 24, 2011, 12:25 »
sowed a row of Elephant Garlic ( thanks Bob) , dragon snaps.
Weeded one of the strawberry beds where eventually my greenhouse will go, a barrow full of buttercup roots  >:( thats 2 10ft x 4ft strawberry beds done only 1 to go now.
My back holding up but have to have lots of breaks and been weeding sat on a chair  :nowink:
I came I saw I grew my own veg

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #800 on: March 24, 2011, 18:19 »
about eight barrows of manure and compost rotovated and dug into the potato bed, a trip to the dump with glass, rotten wood, and weed roots, repaired the shed door and a couple of raised beds then gave the new hose set up a trial. It just about reaches the end of the allotment so im happy with that.

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #801 on: March 24, 2011, 18:22 »
sowed some parsnips in paper pots and glazed the greenhouse :)

But boy are my fingers sore from fitting the glazing clips  :ohmy: and my thumb nails are roken down to the wicks  :(

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #802 on: March 24, 2011, 18:51 »
Planted the second wave of parsnip seed in cardboard tubes, first lot are planted out and now have true leaves.
Planted out some sweat peas.
Finished digging a 10 x 8 feet block, adding half a tonne well rotted FYM where the sweetcorn is to go. (Hadn`t been winter dug as the leaves were piled up there.) Then marked out with small canes the actual sweetcorn positions, (15 inch spacings each way,) and half way between each cane planted out module grown beetroot, and sowed spring onion and mesclun seeds.  Intercropping!

Day away from it tomorrow. going to visit my son on the dairy farm where he works in Devon. Getting down and dirty in a different sense!
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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #803 on: March 24, 2011, 21:32 »
planted a row of potatoes and did some more digging after work this evening.
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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #804 on: March 25, 2011, 10:28 »
Put out my seedlings  agin in the green house Toms, Peppers, Cukes

chitted some sweet corn

potted 2 small bushes in large pots 1 cherry and one plum.

pulled some weeds  then went to work.

What a great way to start the day and to ward off depression - a lovely half hour in the morning sunshine.

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #805 on: March 25, 2011, 10:31 »
Built the greenhouse frame back up on the new plot.
Planted the fruit trees in their pots and sowed Sprouts, Callabrese and put onion sets into a tray of compost outside.

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #806 on: March 25, 2011, 10:51 »
Working in the garden today.

So far, I've emptied, moved, refilled two raised beds (metre Sq) prepared a third and fed all three with BFB.

Having a cuppa, then it's back out to move the small fruit cage to its new position and do some shreading.

And they call it a day off  :lol: :lol:

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #807 on: March 25, 2011, 11:40 »
Our plot is very overgrown (about 5 years worth of abandoment!), so yesterday we cleared out some more willow saplings & brambles - and moved a load of the grass that we've dug up.

After 6 days straight of going to the allotment, today is our day off, before we dig another two bed's worth of grass up tomorrow!

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #808 on: March 25, 2011, 13:29 »
Sowed parsnips direct in the dark last night.  Made a quick escape before they carted me off to the funny farm.

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #809 on: March 25, 2011, 16:55 »
cut the grassn love that smell o the irst cut of many


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