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Elaine! :D :D :D

As a stand alone comment it does need explaining doesn't it? The very fine seaweed I bagged up & neatly put in black bags (Richard Note!), it was unfortunately full of minuscule little crabs that escaped! They had a right adventure in the car & found their way all over it! Fortunately being so small they didn't smell when they eventually died. :P

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Ahh-yes.

You-are forgiven, I had a moment of inspiration so took all the plastic bags out and replaced them with those squidgy buckets we use for everything from washing that needs washing to washing that got washed, segregating fire-kindling from logs, sorting out/riddling seed compost from the lumpy stuff.

A bundle of sea weed does contain a lot of shore-line life-forms and though I saw masses of wriggly things I didn't want to escape into our car I never saw crabs.

The question I asked back then was what do I do with the seaweed now I collected it, I didn't get a response so I bunged mine into the compost bin.

Since then I was advised to spread it and hose it down, other advise was to just bung it into a trench or the compost pit. The difference being the concern over salt and the varying concerns of different gardening practitioners over just about anything.

Hmmmmm ?
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Heligan gardens collect lorry loads from the shore and bung it straight into bean trenches. probably 3-4 months before anything's planted though. Didn't see any washing down on the TV prog.
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I'll be collecting a stash of sea weed this afternoon at low tide, apart from the almost rotted stuff that usually lays at the spring tide marks lots of loose stuff lays all over the beach and close to car parking.

I bought pink fir Apple seed potatoes so I have plenty but not enough raised beds that are deep enough because of the ex mesh that keeps the moles out on most of my beds.

Thanks again for the encouragement, I can feel the enthusiasm coming through via Bluetooth.
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:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Thank you Westie!

Oh my giddy aunt, I can just picture it.....driving along and hundreds of little nippers crawling everywhere....oh dear....

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A rather cold and wet morning here this morning, but i'm in the greenhouse potting many things up, so very contented indeed. :)
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Making tea at 0630. Watched a lad on his way to school. Raining fairly hard. He had only a jumper on. :?
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Poor little sod, it was possibly his favourite jumper and wouldn't wear anything over the top. I had three daughters, I was ashamed of the way they went to school most of the time but with three girls and a wife you get outvoted.

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Richard, Pink Fir produce very well in big pots. I have some pots that trees come in about 18" across and put 4 or 5 seed potatoes in each, usually the small ones from seed I've saved myself and they do nicely. Turn out the pot in October for a lovely spud treat! :D :D

Was wet and cold first thing today but now sunshine. Wind from the north though so a bit chilly still!

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Thanks for the help on the Pink Fir Apple, I may need more help.

I already planted a small row of Charlotte then covered the row with dark green tarpaulin type material until I get shoots, if it's still cold I'll put fleece over the shoots.

I'm holding back on planting the P.F.A.'s on the basis I cant eat spuds that fast and maybe the P.F.A.'s will be happier when the weather warms a little.

Having said that Pembrokeshire, particularly where I live whilst suffering wind damage is quite a few degrees warmer than inland.

I didn't get to the sea weed yet because I'm still cutting winter logs so I placed dried (And crumbled underfoot in the barns cow-poo) in the bottom of the trench, watered it in then placed my Charlottes.

How am I doing ?
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Evening Richard,
Bit surprised that you are not growing the local Pembrokeshire potato.If they were grown by Carlsberg then they would be(probably)the best first early potato in the World!!!
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Evening Richard, P.F.A need a long growing period before they get to a useable size, they are normally one of the last potatoes that i dig, so you should have your Charlotte eaten before they are ready.

The other strange thing about P.F.A is, it doesn't seem to matter how long you chit them, they are very slow to produce shoots....but this doesn't seem to matter, as they always grow away well when planted in the ground.
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Right about the PFA's OH, good lates, they were the ones last autumn where I forgot to empty a couple of the pots and tipped them out about December! They were fine. Seem to be as tough as old boots... :D

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So, I can put my P.F.A.'s in the ground now. That will more convenient than leaving a patch ready for sowing at a later time and on the Pembrokeshire spuds I couldn't find any seed potatoes though I didn't go out of my way or look that hard.

As this will be my first time growing spuds I'll go with what I have now but thanks for the nudge. I'm also growing Caulis for the first time this year, it'll be under netting with carrots and Kale.

The log stores are finally filled to the roof even though I still have two stumps to cut down and cut up that would make two cubic metres, this means I can get on with my gardening. Last years sowing of Hungarian grazing rye in two beds has rotted down with zero signs of what was growing, I was concerned I was introducing more grasses though the usual weed explosion hasn't occurred in those two beds.

Another new raised bed has had a weed explosion, it took me only half an hour to burn the tops with my propane torch. Other beds that had this treatment show less and less annual weed explosion.

For the first time ever I bought Perlite for mixing in to my seed compost, I always wondered what those little white blobs were. :D

What a lovely time of year, particularly on a sunny day all the birds are twittering, lambs calling the ewe, the ewe calling back and it's fun watching lambs playing just like puppies.
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A early start for me...... :) tick tock...
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