Kitchen Garden Forum

Well, I have a lot to do yet, despite the time off work, I have only just got back to full strength, and able to dig, and it has been too wet, dry today but more rain from Tuesday.

I am sure before we know we will be on our plots raking soil to a tilth and debating about when to put the spuds in, just going to order my seeds now, Moles and DT Brown I think with a few rarities from Seeds of Italy.

My greenhouse which was not new when I got it needs some TLC I think I am going to order some plastic on line and replace the broken glass with it, making other repairs with clear sillicon. None of my usual suppliers seem to have good peat free compost in stock that is not from last year, so will be a slow start here.

I am sure it will be a different year, but we will all make the best of it.

Compo

Weatherwise wasn't it a lovely day today?

One of my allotment neighbours had errected an aluminium greenhouse a month or so ago....he obviously hadn't fixed it down as it was found somewhat rearranged several plots away this morning....he hadn't glazed it either so it surprised me that it had actually took off.

I have now completed the base for my small greenhouse ready for the big move within the next two weeks...weather permitting.

A 4' x 4' is being detached from an 8'x 6' and moved to another bit of the plot hence to new base...the 8' x 6' it was attached to is then going onto another plot to live

I will then be rushing to get the old base moved and ready to take a dismantled 10' x 8' that I have acquired....all that hopefully in time for seed planting next month.

Spring is coming folks...cheer up

Bright sunshine and no rain here all day. Noticeably colder this evening.

Did some digging. Moved into the tunnels and sowed 3 more lots of onions and another tub of carrots.

Then sat in the sunshine making up the labels (for the next few weeks worth of sowings) with my Lidl bargain Brother gizmo.

Lovely day. Dinner's cooking and OH is making bread.

Tigger can you or anyone else recommend a good internet supplier of replacement plastic panes for greenhouses (mine is standard size 24x24 (inches of course!!)

a lovely bright and cold day today ( 8 deg) and missed it all as one of my daughters got taken into hospital on saturday night.
the garlic was planted in the beds begining of december , onion seed planted new year day and just starting to come through , and potatoes are a chitting.
down here not to worried about frost its the rain that gets them here , which we have had all week apart from today JUST MY LUCK !

Dear Carlseawolf, i hope your daughter has the quickest of recoveries.

Lovely day here too, but was at a friend's birthday party in Reading so didn't get a chance to do anything (but had a good time anyway!)
haven't done any digging in the garden but it looks more like a pond at the moment. have got the stuff ready to plant the onion seed ready to go on the window sill but haven't done anything with it yet. shuld be doing "work stuff" at the moment but am on here instead! so little time........please can I have a couple of extra hours in the day?? (as long as it doesn't involve getting out of bed earlier!)

THANK YOU , OLD HERBACEOUS FOR YOUR REGARDS
my day was not as bad as the allotmenteers in lynton , n . devon today goats got in to the plots and had eaten the lot NOW THATS BAD LUCK !

Compo - I'll check out my usual suspects and get back to you.

Thanks Tigger, have done an internet search and unusually cannot find what I want at the right price!!

Cheers

Compo, you just don't seem to be able to get anything for nothing these days.

oldherbaceous wrote:Compo, you just don't seem to be able to get anything for nothing these days.

Don't you freecycle then OH?

Peter no i haven't, what's it all about.
Don't forget i'm only a country boy.

theres nothing on the one near us!
i keep popping on!

You should come and live here in Northamptonshire. The freecycle here has so many messages I've given up reading it! Is everyone on Dartmoor too tight to give anything away then?