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| D3\'s Allotment |
Seein' a man about one tomorrow 
It's bin along time - Damn 51 quid tho' 
You can buy a lot of veg for that money 
I wonder how long delivery is on fifteen tonnes of mushroom compost ?
What's the chances of buying early potatoes now?
Wonder if I can get the old rotavator going ? |
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| donthre wrote: | Seein' a man about one tomorrow
It's bin along time - Damn 51 quid tho'
You can buy a lot of veg for that money
I wonder how long delivery is on fifteen tonnes of mushroom compost ?
What's the chances of buying early potatoes now?
Wonder if I can get the old rotavator going ? |
Great news D3 £51pcm??
just think how much better that veg will taste though. Get in touch with your local stables/riding school, they'll throw muck at you.
Well I would too if you lived closer  |
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| Jonty wrote: | [
............... Get in touch with your local stables/riding school, they'll throw muck at you.
Well I would too if you lived closer |
Thanks Jonty  - I think
No Not Pcm, - PA - Unless you're unemployed.
D'ya think I should sneak a goat onto it ? |
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& then today I got a phonecall - From a periodic client about a problem
Straight into Strong black coffee, Adrenaline & Problem solving mode - Deadlines, correspondence, Potential actions & Judged responses, counters, plots & ways out 
Eight hour crisis meeting, Fag smoke & Hyper-Activity - Now relaxing with a lovely "Achieved" feeling, whisky & (probably) a new employee / trainee 
Perhaps - I'm not quite ready to "Retire" yet 
Watch this space 
PS - entirely forgot about the "Allotment Guy" |
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Well - I've done it - Got a "half plot" on a better site, where I've had my name down for a couple of years. It's been worked by "a woman" who's emigrating - but she seems to have done it pretty well only a few docks visible (& a big patch of nettles & some beambles she "hadn't got round to" - but they won't last long.
Hopefully get the keys next weekend - then the Parsnips & onion seed will be going in straight away
Really looking forward to some Proper veg
& there's a tap right at the end of it - so watering won't be too much of an issue
What's everyone else starting off right now ?
Ps I pulled the string on the Rotavator yesterday & it turns over ok - so a quiclk strip & clean of the electrics & carb should have her running fairly easily |
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| donthre wrote: | | What's everyone else starting off right now ? |
well, my seeds have all arrived - and i'm building a DIY heated propagator this weekend - I bought one of those parasene soil heating cables, so i'm building a tray to sit on the window ledge that'll get plenty sun and then i'm off
i've some onion sets and shallots to put in this weekend
not doing anything from seed until 8th Feb as i'm off for a weeks snowboarding and will start when i'm back
1st in will be the Alpine Strawb seeds (i've plenty of strawberry plants, but want to ty the alpine ones and also want to do them from seed to see how they go)
I've leeks to try - over christmas and new year we got through loads of these in various soups & pies, so they are now on the list of things to grow
I have some early variety carrots i'm gonna do in containers in the tunnel to get some ASAP
Also got some mint seeds - I've a bit of area in the garden that i want to fill, so gonna chuck in a few herbs - Mint, rosemary, thyme, some lavender. Not planning on using them in the kitchen until they are well established and large
Then, Parsnips in - last years were great, i love parsnip chips and mash!!
I've red onion seeds that'll go into the tunnel and i've a HUGE selection of chilli seeds that i have been given from a kind soul on teh Chillis galore forum (12 different types) as well as those i've saved from organic chillis and peppers i've bought over teh year - they all need properly dried then into th eheated propagator to germinate.
I have some early potatoes that i'm doing in a container in the tunnel
that should be all for feb i think |
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Only on the planning stage here our plot is so wet only half the beds have been cleared from last year . Won't get much done down there until March or April if previous years are anything to go by (well exluding last ''summer'' of course  ). |
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| Tatties and onions ready to go in. Bought some beetroot seeds yesterday but I've never done them before so that should be erm...interesting. Also bought some giant sunflower seeds for the kids to plant round our veg plot. Its gonna look hilarious! |
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| monkeybum wrote: | | Also bought some giant sunflower seeds for the kids to plant round our veg plot. Its gonna look hilarious! |
I bought some of these for Mrs SB - but she never panted them last year, so i'll plant them this year, gonna plant them around the "lawn sofa" i built - not gonna tell her either, she'll just notice them one day and probably ask me where her sunflower seeds are!!
i've got to look into flowers and stuff this year, there will be a need to plant some to make the place look pretty!! the original deal was she would do the bits around the "relaxing" bit of the garden and i'd get to the business of growing stuff - but seems i've to do both now! |
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Here's my Rule breaking parsnips - this morning - Note the cunning use of the Ice cream container  [edit] - Oh you can't see it - thats what the pots are held in
Seeds set 24th Jan.
Mb - Your beetroot seeds - often grow several plants from the one "Seed" so I'd sow singly - about 1.5-2" apart when the times right
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