What I did on the plot today - 2011

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #2160 on: August 09, 2011, 15:41 »
weeded...put soaked comfrey fertilizer on newly weeded bed...just need to decide what to put there

thinned carrots - rabbits loved them

Harvested white onions, red onions and shallots...not sure what to do with them all now lol - and some broad beans

put some more comfrey pellets to soak

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #2161 on: August 09, 2011, 20:32 »
harvested cherokee beans (large shopping bag full) apples (medium shopping bag full) courgettes and pears (another medium bag) and filled the plastic trug 6" deep with runner beans. now to chop and freeze.
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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #2162 on: August 09, 2011, 20:34 »
dug up spuds and sowed turnips and bunching onions

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #2163 on: August 09, 2011, 21:30 »
Just been out to shut greenhouse up thought I would take a peek at my cauli's not looked for a couple of weeks and pulled back the leaves and all 4 have nice white curds on !!!! re-covered and left them as they are not that big at the moment but they are there :) :D

My broccolis are the size of dinner plates !! going to harvest them tomorrow before they go too far  :blink:

harvested cabbage dwarfe green beans and broccoli yesterday for tea also picked more tomatoes a cuc and a big  mixing bowl full of blackberries

got given some rhubarb so made crumble with that an apple and some of the blackberries

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #2164 on: August 09, 2011, 21:32 »
Be careful, if you can see the curds, they won't get a lot bigger.

Leave them too long, they'll "blow" and you'll end up with yellow flowers!
Did it really tell you to do THAT on the packet?

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #2165 on: August 09, 2011, 21:46 »
Be careful, if you can see the curds, they won't get a lot bigger.

Leave them too long, they'll "blow" and you'll end up with yellow flowers!

I had to uncurl all the leaves from around it to see - they are about 6cm from one side to the other then when I let go the leaves went back around them as tight as before  - should I get them up now ? don't want them to flower ha ha

new to this grow your own lark  :wub:

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #2166 on: August 09, 2011, 21:50 »
Wait until you can peep into the plant and see them without pulling the leaves back. They be OK of a couple of days, but bend/peg/tie a large leaf over the curd to keep the sun off.

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #2167 on: August 09, 2011, 21:53 »
Wait until you can peep into the plant and see them without pulling the leaves back. They be OK of a couple of days, but bend/peg/tie a large leaf over the curd to keep the sun off.

Brilliant

Thanks DD  :)

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #2168 on: August 09, 2011, 22:00 »
Leave them too long, they'll "blow" and you'll end up with yellow flowers!

That explains what I thought were weeds. I`ll dig them up tomorrow. Quite nice yellow flowers though. :)
I can remember when it were all fields round `ere.

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #2169 on: August 10, 2011, 07:34 »
Weeded my leeks.  Watered everything.  Sowed lettuce 2 types and mooli radish

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #2170 on: August 10, 2011, 09:37 »
Watered, watered and watered some more before my weekend away  :unsure:

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #2171 on: August 10, 2011, 11:16 »
Last night played some tunes for night visitors, so all tomatoes on it's place  :D
Today shaped tea  :blink: lucky wasn't very sunny, but drunk about a bucket of water.  :blink:
Tonight going to play more tunes  :D just small pocket radio, tuned somewhere on MW keeps little bustards away from my plants  :D

Sorry, no tunes, baseball game tonight  :D
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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #2172 on: August 10, 2011, 18:56 »
picked more beans, and a few tomatoes.

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #2173 on: August 10, 2011, 19:24 »
sowed Pak Choi, Autumn King carrots and Red Russian kale and did a bit more weeding, of course  ;)

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #2174 on: August 10, 2011, 20:25 »
Planted some more radish, trimmed back some leaves on my GH tomatoes, and tied up some of the trusses on the sweet millions - they are really long (more than two feet long) and getting heavy. Now all we need is more sunshine to help them on their way. Picked six sweet millions, 2 cukes, two sweet peppers and lots of salad onions.  :)


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