Kitchen Garden Forum

So what's everyone up to assuming you are having a few days off.

Been to the lottie today and we've brush cut the mass of bramble at the side of my plot and raked all the scrub back. It's made a massive difference and there is loads more light flooding in over the hedge now. I'm hoping it means less slugs and snails this year I'm plotting with my new lottie neighbour who has taken the plot below to nuke the new growth with Roundup as it appears this spring and keep it strimmed down as grass. He's found the original marker posts for our plots and we've got about a metre wide strip each to reclaim from the wilderness

Done a bit more digging and slowly the plot is looking like we might be in business for some serious growing this year

Sue

Hello,

I have done a little digging in the at home garden..and drunk some tea...and written about an engine problem, written about it again, unwritten it, edited it, written it again ..and hopefully helped with it in the end.??!! despite a mighty nerve wracking episode..

I have done a bit more digging..and was treated to a Spitfire fly by .

Today a visit to Aunt & Uncles who were mighty stressed out with an intermittant BT line fault..and the arrival of an all singing all dancing new fangle phone.. which did everything brilliantly except ring very loud...so they can't hear it....much discussion lead to aunt in further talks with BT to the success we hope in the arrival soon of a LOUD ringer.

Visits to work to check that all is well...

And a bit more digging needed to round off the holiday period and complete the Winter sorting of Dads garden here.

Then back to work for..more digging.

All the best,
Clive.

Dear Sue i'm back to work tomorrow, but have been busy catching up with my winter digging as i've got a bit behind this year. also planted four new apple trees.
I picked a bag full of baby beetroot today so just a couple of narrow strips left to dig saturday, and that will be it finished.

well arnt i the smug one,done all my digging in the autume,havnt been the plot apart from xmas eve when the local b.....eds set more sheds on fire,getting to be a reg thing latley .got to meet some very nice firemen though
been the gym and saw the tarts o.h and son and now im chilling till 2nd jan when i have to go back to work

Today, The Trousers re-glazed my Grown-Up-Girls-Greenhouse, that he and Piglet relocated for me earlier this month. And tomorrow he's going to 'nuke' the glass with the power hose inside and out, for a sparkly start to the New Year.....

Then I'VE got some hard work to do !

we've been looking at bigger houses- i want one with a large garden! saw one with a greenhouse...
going in the garden at the weekend-hopefully

I am now off work until the 4th January. I intend to spend some time on the lottie in the morning and some in the home greenhouse sowing some seeds. Nothing in particular, just some bitting and bobbing.

[size=12][color=darkblue]I moved my rhubarb, and divided it into a dozen or so crowns and bedded it down in some lovely home made compost. Dug a big trench for some other waste, and put all the shale from the bottom onto the allotment track to fill in the ruts that the 4WD idiots have made.

If the weather permits, I need to do some more digging and clean the greenhouse, but the weekend weather looks wet and wild. If that happens I could think about ordering my seeds, will read the article on seed catalogues first.

Oh yeah and I am going to make a notice for the allotment to tell everyone about the manure that the young farmers are going to deliver in January for charity.

And all that just five weeks after me operation (wife has banned me from talking about it though)

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Fencing (site boundary) for me.

Having to dig the old fence out of the neolithic barrow that one departed plot-holder saw fit to create by piling all his compostable detritus against the fence, best soil on the site!

Completed the first fifteen feet today. Hold out your arm straight, bend slightly (in same direction) at elbow and wrist and you have the fence I'm working on in plan, I've done the hand.

Just a little bit to go, ha-ha.

Some of us have been on call over Christmas and back at full time work from the 27th.

Roll on Jan 2nd when most of the others rearrive at the office!

Now - what do you want sorting out this week?..........

Well Tigger, as you are offering, my bathroom could do with redecorating.

Mine does too Peter. Shall we swap?