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..looks like it was me... :oops: with ref the scorched parkland...

I was going to sow a row of Peas...but found we need to eat a few leeks to make the row run right across.

Then decided to go sow the Carrots...and got out the fleece....plenty windy for playing with fleece...

....so gave up and have come in for stuffed chine and some pickled onions for tea.
I have a feeling that the wind may strengthen....... :oops: :oops:


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We've had a lovely morning, so much so that I got my little 6x4 greenhouse emptied and all the green yucky stuff and muck washed off the panes, inside and out and the staging washed down. My leek, sweet pea and various flower seedlings, not to mention the herbs that are in temporary residence, have had a high old time in the fresh air :D

Got steadily more overcast, windy and cooler as the afternoon progressed but I still managed to repeat the process with the 8x6 greenhouse. Just put all the seedlings back in for the night. Hope the weather is good tomorrow as I still need to give the floor of the larger greenhouse a scrub and sweep.

Feeling completely exhausted but very pleased with myself :D

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Police humour, a plot holder recognising a new plot holders father as a former colleague had a little chat and was walking back to his plot as the chap started to dig his son's plot.
Chap turned over a forkful and called after his retreating former colleague.



"Last time I was digging next to you, we were looking for a body.". :?
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We almost had 'bodies' as a reality, Peter, when we first took on our allotment: we found lots of bones albeit rather small ones. It turned out that the family who used that part of the field as a stock allotment after WW2 were in the habit of burying their dead chickens, goats .....

Spent the day gardening at home today,sowing lots of things, both veggies and flowers, all now under cover, and also planting more potatoes in potato bags.

it's now raining heavily which is just what we want.

Last night, by the way, we had a tremendous hail storm which covered everything in 2 - 3 inches of slush in next to no time. The hail 'pitted' quite a few leaves, too!
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We had an elderly, - non-gardening - , allotment tenant who used his plot to feed the local urban foxes with what he could scrounge from the butchers, or nick out of their bin. Plot was like a high explosive battlefield and we used to find lumps of meat cached in our well dug plots, ruddy Rufus couldn't dig a hole on HIS plot. :?
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Bit of a rat fest too I shouldn't wonder Peter. Which bit of 'garden allotment' didn't the fox man get? I hope he got removed, who wants parasite infected fox poo all over their veggies.

Since you've owned up to ordering the rain Clive the rest of you can go out to play. Clive, one hundred lines 'I must be careful what I ask for'...

VPM, if you want to make cleaning the algae off the outside of the greenhouse easier get a long handled soft broom, a bucket of soapy water big enough to take the broom and do the job in the rain. Neighbours will give you funny looks but it works!

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Motherwoman wrote:VPM, if you want to make cleaning the algae off the outside of the greenhouse easier get a long handled soft broom, a bucket of soapy water big enough to take the broom and do the job in the rain. Neighbours will give you funny looks but it works!

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Thanks for that MW. Thankfully only the greenhouse floors left to do today and that's the job done for another year :D Hope you get better weather today.

I'm looking forward to getting on with the repotting in my nice, sparkly greenhouses :)

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Re Monika's post on old bones..
Just after the war some people who had bought a farm at Smallfield, near Gatwick, unearthed what they exitedly reported as the remains of a Mammoth. They were quietly informed that the farm had been the winter quarters of Sangers circus!
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I was tempted to do a copy and paste exercise for my lines...but took the community service option and went in to work to carry out a few tasks

It hadn't rained very much overnight...and I worked some ground down and sowed a couple more rows of Broad Beans.....and back in the shed pricked out various flower seedlings into trays.

...and with ref the dry scorched land around these parts...today there are some quite serious dust storms up in the Lincolnshire Wolds...where it is possible to see that the land is smoothed and eroding.

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Sorry to hear the ground is still dry up your way Clive, it absolutely chucked it down here all of yesterday and we're squelching again.

At one stage I built a small earth bank outside the front gate of the holiday let (I was doing a turn-round yesterday after visitors) to stop the stream of water that was flowing across the garden. Needless to say the lawn did not get cut.

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We've had rain almost every day this week. Today was a bit better, but the ground is too wet to work on now again :roll:

Just hope that I can get everything sown and planted before my holiday in 3 weeks time.
Cheers PJ.

I'm just off down the greenhouse. I won't be long...........
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I'm getting there, concrete coming late, (i hope), Tuesday afternoon, so could be on target for P.J's deadline. :)
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14.5 C outside at the moment. I bet not many pages back it was 4.5 C or lower....
Very red sky out West as I left work at 8:20pm.

..and the dust storm field I saw earlier had, this evening, just a light sand smoothed finish to the hill top...I was going to take a photo on the way home...but it got dark.!

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Did you see Country File, vpm? You'll have to start a campaign for increased funding for school gardening clubs. I get the impression youngsters can get enthused but teenagers lose it.
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Geoff wrote:Did you see Country File, vpm?


No I didn't but I'll watch it tomorrow on iplayer when the girls go back to school.

To be honest, I have nothing against the garden having to be mostly self-sufficient but for that to work I need the parents to be supportive, especially when it comes to the produce itself. Last year you'd think I was asking them to eat poison, the level of reluctance shown for taking the produce and we even left it up to them to decide how much they wanted to donate :shock:

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