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Well i'm back to work proper, today, so hopefully all will be well.

Thank you for the kind words.

That's good but just don't go over doing things.

VPM
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Hope OH is well, he said he was going back to work on Wed.27th and he hasn;t been on the forum since, or maybe he is too busy catching up on work now we are enjoying lovely Spring weather.
Bren

Dear Bren, i have been popping on the forum, just not posting.

I am just about there now, just feel a little washed out where i have been trying to play catch up at work. But i have at last managed to get all the hedges at the Big House cut, including the prickly Hawthorn hedge that runs along my much loved Church.

And it looks as if the weather is going to very nice next week, so that should give us all a lift, well it has for Alan.

You're ahead of me now Old H'. ..we still have one section of Cherry Laurel, a little bit of Leyland, and a couple of bits of Yew that missed out on trimming last year.

We had the assistance of the tea and cakes dept of the MK Museum every day last week....so we made some good progress at last in the better weather. ....but may have slowed a little also due to our flapjack and fruit cake consumption at teas breaks.!!

Clive.

Morning Clive, a little over indulgence now and again, never hurt anyone.

Glad you are catching up too, i hate looking around and seeing jobs that still need doing, before the start of the season, proper.

Open ground Winter digging completed at home this morning..

...and a start made on the new season...with two rows of Shallots planted.

In the back field I've just spotted 3 Hares having a mad? run about..

...and a scrambling motorbike madly haring along on the footpath too......

Clive.

Double first today, Max's first allotment visit & our first "doing something" visit of 2013.

He whine-grumbled and I dug.
Sally is much more sensible, she curled up & snoozed.

Afternoon Peter, how is the old boy settling in at home now?

Glad you have been able to get back on the land.

That's a nice collection of blue mushrooms you've got there Peter. Did they just appear overnight?

John

John wrote:That's a nice collection of blue mushrooms you've got there Peter. Did they just appear overnight?

John

If only!


Five years plus of patient collection when plots were vacated and trading of water butts or compost tumblers.

Then cutting the tops off, cutting a tractor-seat shaped hole in the bottom, finally excavating to set them in the bank.

Excuse my ignorance, but what are they used for ?

No worries.

One plotholder used to work for a chemical company and delivered these full of ink, he aquirred a number of empties, which he & others used as water butts.

I use them to retain the bank up to my soft fruit area and filled with a mix of my topsoil, homebase bagged topsoil, shredded tree and manure I grow salads and carrots.

We have a row of three which came to us from a tannery. They are all connected and are fed with rainwater from the shed roof. Very useful in dry summers (are we going to get one this year?).

peter wrote:No worries.

One plotholder used to work for a chemical company and delivered these full of ink, he aquirred a number of empties, which he & others used as water butts.

I use them to retain the bank up to my soft fruit area and filled with a mix of my topsoil, homebase bagged topsoil, shredded tree and manure I grow salads and carrots.

Thanks for the reply.
When you said others used them as water butts, I was a bit non-plussed.
More of a "green" blue barricade.
I bet parsnips would do well with that depth.