What I did on the plot today - 2011

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Debz

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #870 on: March 29, 2011, 16:15 »
Nice piece of construction Plottered.

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #871 on: March 29, 2011, 16:25 »
I potted on chillies, tomatoes and chard.  I saw my squash plants poking their heads out of the compost too.  I sowed my dwarf beans in root trainers and they are in  the potting shed by the window for a while.

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #872 on: March 29, 2011, 19:15 »
We started to dig a mangtout plot but rain stopped play!  :(

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #873 on: March 29, 2011, 19:41 »
Mowed the lawn/mulched the raspberries with the clippings, planted my first-early spuds having read Mumofstig's technique of planting in a shallow trench to provide more soil for earthing up (took a nice long time as I can't afford to waste space in my back-garden plot!), sowed parsnips (directly into the ground), chatted to my neighbour who wants to get rid of her used growbag compost (I'll grow my sweet potatoes in it (with some suitable additions.)

(Oh yes, carefully examined my blueberries for signs of "bubonic plague" after a post in GYO but they're looking good so far!)  :)
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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #874 on: March 29, 2011, 20:20 »
Had a busy day today, built a frame to protect the strawbs from the pesky meeces, followed by plenty of digging and managed to plant 4 rows of Maris Piper spuds, planted a row of shallots and sowed a load of parsnips. Managed to get all this done just before the heavens   :)

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #875 on: March 29, 2011, 21:30 »
popped into the plot after work, planted a row of potatoes, and dug a bed the full width of the plot in just over 45 minutes, used the azada to break the soil, then forked it and raked smooth. And despite the bad back I still had yesterday, my back is still fine.
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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #876 on: March 29, 2011, 23:53 »
Rotovated my 1st early potato bed and planted pots, planted 50 onion seedlings(another 200 to put in), moved 50 broad beans sown in 3 inch pots to the coldframe.
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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #877 on: March 29, 2011, 23:55 »
A belt to the plot resulted in = earlies planted (Charlotte, Rocket and Arran Pilot), 8 foot row of peas neatly arranged in their paper-pots (instant peas  ;)) and the sweet peas planted out.

Covered the lot in wire mesh to discourage the foxes from digging them up again  >:(
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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #878 on: March 30, 2011, 11:25 »
Sowed some leeks into a large planter. Potted up some turnip, swede, parsnip, broccoli, beetroot, cabbage, sprouts. just a couple of each haven't much space in the garden so a couple of each will have to do.

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #879 on: March 30, 2011, 14:20 »
Watched the welomed rain.
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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #880 on: March 30, 2011, 15:23 »
Planted a couple of rows of peas, beetroot and carrots. If we dont get any rain soon it will be out with the watering cans!!

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #881 on: March 30, 2011, 16:12 »
Found some onion sets so will sow those tomorrow when it hopefully has stopped raining - trying to find a suitable pot for horeradish.

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #882 on: March 30, 2011, 20:32 »
Forked 3 beds over , 2 of which are for the spuds that are going in on friday, the other is for tall climbing peas i sowed in modules today  .Sowed the brassicas in seed trays and leeks and chilli peppers and stood them in the unheated greenhouse covered with glass and bubble wrap, good days work , roll on friday !!!! :) Also did some weeding around the onions and watered the parsnip seeds and spring onion seeds, carrots under cloches and fed the raspberries.

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #883 on: March 30, 2011, 21:19 »
dodo weather so only spent a few minutes weeding and checking over things.

a few seedlings are starting to poke through now - finally some growth!

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #884 on: March 31, 2011, 09:37 »
Today I will make my first cut of overwintered chard.  Well chuffed that this lasted so well given the winter we had.  I will cream the chard in the manner of spinach  and have it with Steak tonight for my 50th Birthday tea.


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