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Yep - ordered mine already but not sure when they will come though, just a nice surprise when the garden club guys drop them off.

Currently sorting out next years planting plan - do it on paper, measure it out when down lottie - then back to the drawing board as inevitably underestimate. Probably have it sorted by August! Trying to move a lot of my fruit as didn't give that a great deal of thought, just planted where there was a gap initially so want it all nice and organised next year. Mind lottie is at risk of being part of new housing estate so will be peeved it that happens and I have to move it all again!

Westi

Seed order dropped off at a friends house this evening to go to garden club imminently.

...and Snowdrops spotted today coming up, 1/4" high, under the big old Horse Chestnut..

Clive.

oldherbaceous wrote:Well that's my Winters rest over then!

Anyone ordered their seed potatoes yet?

Seed Potato order just completed....

....and the annual, reluctant, clean of radio dept in my room also completed.... . an alternative to Winter digging due to it pouring down this afternoon..

Clive.

Very heavy rain here too, Clive, so a shed tidy up was called for.

Oh, and sharpened my chainsaw.....

Just driven home through a gale along what seemed to be a 40 mile river with some deep pools, all well spattered with small debris.

Still too wet to empty my compost heap, but next week looks hopeful. But all my ordered seeds have arrived. Only the seed potatoes still to come and I don't want those yet for a time. One year they arrived before Christmas and it was a job to keep them cool enough not to sprout too early.

Suppose i better get my red suit ready for a busy night.

Still very mild here in Cornwall, Lots of rain and mud ....
In fact I think my garden is in spring moad , crocus and daffs are poking through , first flower on the camillia opened, plus the fish are looking fo food in the pond. Its going to go in to shock when we get the deep freeze and snow come March...

Tigger2shoes

A very warm welcome to the forum. May we see much more of you

Yes indeed, i second that, our warm welcomes seem to have gone a little quiet just lately.

Thankyou ..... Nice to meet you too
Busy today cooking and being hostess , also trying to keep the ginger man off the sideboard and the dog out of peoples handbands
But will be back soon to talk onion storage....

Merry Christmas to all x

Just run the hoover round the house, just to show cook how caring i can be, and that straw seems to get everywhere.

Starting to feel a little more festive now.....

I have side stepped the vacuum today....and ventured out to start Winter digging. I have divided the first section into 3 manageable strips so I can work one way then back alongside and so on....then I can finish in the diagonal opposite corner to the starting point.

We've got Stuffed Chine for tea today. ..thank you Pete & Mo.

Clive.

Mmmm that sounds good Clive, How/what did you stuff it with ?
We have courtesy of our loverly neighbours a early Christmas present of half a deer. Hubby spent all day yesterday butchering it , into 2 deboned leg joints and 2 loins , so I have made a rabbit and venison pie , roasted one of the joints to have for our tea today and set the rest aside for dinner tomorrow , its currently drinking a bottle of red wine so its tasty by tomorrow.
Its a nice dinner when its free veg from garden and free meat from the neighbours, cranberries from my own bush ... only thing I have brought are the sausages and bacon to wrap around them.....
Plenty to go around if any one is free for dinner

My task is to eat and enjoy. It is a work colleagues husband, Pete, who masterminded the stuffing and cooking of the "chine". Parsley being the stuffing.
Although he did experiment recently with an old recipe he had found..that included a Raspberry leaf or two along with the Parsley.

Clive.