tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46526841698707252082024-03-14T11:01:52.952+00:00My gardenThis is an ongoing diary of my time trying to grow fruit, veg and herbs at my allotment and in my garden. It also has snippets of my ornamental garden as the fancy takes me.calcitestarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03890458197442387939noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4652684169870725208.post-40074396960130695712020-05-02T09:31:00.005+01:002020-05-02T09:31:53.729+01:00A beautiful Spring<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This spring has been weird for us all. It has been lovely to be able to get out and enjoy the lovely fine weather in my garden. With us all stuck at home my neighbours decided to remove most of the overgrown holly hedge the previous neighbours had planted about 20 years ago which had been totally blocking out the light and leaving our garden in deep shade. The result has been an utter wonderful transformation. The plans I had for my garden which I left feeling despondent can now be resurrected once I've managed remove the huge mass of ivy which is swamping the area I gave up on all those years ago. I think I'm going to be busy for the next year or so re-finding this area of my garden.</div>
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My long wisteria is beginning to bloom</div>
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I spent some time down at the allotment last weekend. It was the first time I have used green manure. As it was just beginning to seed it was time to chop it down ready for new crops to go in in a few weeks. I was amazed just how strong the roots were. They took lots of digging out. Hopefully I will have nice fertile soil very soon.</div>
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The rhubarb at the allotment is growing up like mad again. We inherited 13 plants of the stuff and we rarely eat it. Just as well my friends like it and it keeps the weeds off the soil as we have plenty of other patches to tend. I planted the orange and white onions which I had started off at home in the greenhouse. Last year I put some in a wet area and they just rotted. Hopefully this year I will have loads. We love onions.</div>
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Back in the garden I found some long lost treasures which had completely disappeared under the overgrown hedge and ivy.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">The centre of my planned patio abandoned 20 years ago.</td></tr>
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The rest of the garden is full of spring flowers and now the bay tree is gone theres loads more sunny flower bed to fill soon.</div>
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These lovely bleeding hearts are coming into bloom in the courtyard. They are such a wierd shape. </div>
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Just as I was taking this shot a huge bee landed on the lower flowers. Can you spy him?<br />
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As the garden centres are shut I've decided to make my own compost this year so I've been round collecting from all my bins. This is from the wormery below and is very wet and gloopy but full of nutrients.<br />
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This is one of my lovely Acers which is coming into leaf.<br />
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This is another with such different colour leaves. I love them both.<br />
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This is the woodland area of my garden. Soon it will be bursting with bluebells and foxgloves. </div>
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It's been an early spring this year and my garden is full of flowers and new growth. It's my favourite time of year. Here's my garden as I walked round it today.<br />
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Last night I promised myself a day of rest after a fairly busy time so what did I end up doing? Laying paving stones at the allotment and planting out the peas!<br />
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I bought a bean frame for the peas. It is a purpose built frame with hinges on the top and bulldog style clips to hold the netting on. It was very easy to put together and if it holds up to the wind I will recommend it. Around it I planted Turners Spring, Table top and purple podded peas which I sowed in 1/4 seed trays and then hardened off in the cold frame at home.<div>
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I then planted the first thing in the raised beds. some <span style="text-align: center;">Hatif d'Annonay </span>peas which form sturdy plants and need no support.</div>
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I then stopped for lunch in my shed which gave me some time to admire the view and enjoy all my hard work over the last year.</div>
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Today I spent five hours at the allotment and got loads done. Being a root day in the biodynamic cycle in went the onions and the carrots.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I then planted out my Tree onions and the first lot of carrots and covered them in mesh to stop the carrot fly. I also popped in some home harvested radish seed as a cash crop between the tree onions and the potatoes.</td></tr>
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I also harvested the first crop of rhubarb this year. Rhubarb and custard it is then!<br />
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Well it's been a year this week since I got my allotment and a lot has changed!<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">There is still a bit of land to dig over the the last half of the old compost heap to spread over the plot but I shall do that in stages. I hope to use the beds I have to their maximum use this year and fully finish all the digging ready for next year. The worst of the weeds are covered in black plastic to kill them off over the summer as this worked really well last year.</span></div>
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Today we started out relatively early and we managed to get loads dome at the allotment. The ground was rather wet and the water table was just 4 inches under the surface but with the first day of sun and no rain for weeks we carried on anyway!<br />
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We coated the raised beds in linseed oil before we constructed them to give them a bit longer life. They were very cheap but until I am fully sure it is the way to go I didn't want to spend too much. They went together really easily, and will un-slot easily if we want to change them. We positioned them were the soil has been flooding to raise the planting are up above the water.<br />
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We also did a bit more digging, brought down a few more paving stones and laid a couple in front of the shed, removed the raspberries that I inherited as they are hopelessly small fruit and hubby moved the Hotbox compost bin inline with the others. I will have to add all the changes to my gardening program at growveg.com<br />
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Well I certainly wont be digging at the allotment for a while.<br />
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As the season turns surprisingly slowly to autumn this year my garden is loosing it's overall beauty but with just a little observation many wonderful sights can still be seen. There is nothing better than pottering about finding delights at every turn.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The bees are still busy</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The sedum is doing extremely well this year</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Garlic chives gone mad with an autumn fling!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bay tree buds</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Allium seed pod. I really don't remember planting this but it reaches 6ft every year!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Autumn crocuses amongst the pansies</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Can't remember the name of this plant but it's beautiful all the same.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">White Autumn crocus</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;">Callicarpa close up. They are hairy berries - very wierd.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;">Callicarpa in all its glory. Such a treat in the early autumn.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wonderfully striking Lobelia</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The leeks I left from last winter. I will soon have loads of seeds for next year and pretty heads for the frost to fall on.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Autumn raspberries for my tea.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A newly cleared patch clawed back from the ivy filled with bulbs for year round interest.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The prize of my garden at the moment a waterlily autumn crocus.</td></tr>
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I have been really buy over the wonderful summer watering my crops and digging out weeds in a couple of beds in my garden and tending crops. Now the autumn has suddenly hit - it was 28c last week! - I have different things to do but before I start I want to show you what I have been up to in my allotment since the last blog ending my new purchase yesterday at the bottom.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Go on holiday for a week and I have giants invading! I am really please with the onions. I grew them from seed two years ago but they only made pickling onions and sets in my shaded garden but this year in the sunshine of my allotment they have grown huge.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The largest beetroot I have ever seen! It actually cooked beautifully and wasn't woody at all.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some more of my beetroot. I have never been able to grow beetroots before in my garden - lots of leaves which are great for salad but no roots. The allotment is paying off :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My beetroot all vacuum packed and ready for the Sous Vide. They freeze well in these bags and are actually easy to separate after.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More of my harvest just 2 days after.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Statice plants ot attract the bees with my courgette plants behind and my runner bean plants hiding behind those!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My broccoli plants have grown too big for their covers but it still keeps the pesky pigeons off.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The last of my beetroot fattening up.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My allotment yesterday. One new HotBox compost bin - fill to the brim with weed tops and mess of my inherited compost pile to the right. I have just begun digging where the onions and beetroot were over the summer to plant spring cabbages and leeks.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the right where the black plastic has been killing the weeds all summer will be laid with paving stones ready to house my shed. Exciting times!</td></tr>
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Today I decided that as it cooler but not raining I would just dig out the geranium that had overgrown in my flowerbed and was in real need of digging out and replanting. After a while I realised that the whole bed really needed sorting as the Ivy from next doors had crept in over the last year while it had been too wet for me to notice. So, despite the temperature rising and rising I carried on digging and digging. More and more pieces were cut away and dug up and I could begin to see my long lost flower bed again.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My flower bed at the beginning of the day - a mass of overgrown geranium and ivy</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All this cleared out plus a bin full of roots. Shredding al this ment I could fit it in my compost heap.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So much clearer. I can even see my flower bed edging!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some of the many plant labels I found in my clear-up. Many of the plants are long since no more.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The start of the replanting. I repositioned the Phlox that had been suffering under the bush and planted the buddila that I had bought last year when it was FAR too wet to even trad on the garden!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All clear and the tiny pieces of geranium replanted.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After a rest I decided to plant out the plants I had in pots into the bare bed The poor Cosmos was still in there seedling pots but the ones I had planted earlier in the month had doubled in size so there is hope for these too.<br />
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calcitestarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03890458197442387939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4652684169870725208.post-20758157361580546212013-07-15T14:36:00.000+01:002013-07-15T14:36:01.937+01:00Harvesting and watering!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Today I went down the allotment to water my veg and to see if any veg was ready. I seem to have done OK with 2 medium courgettes and loads more on the way. Take note Pete, prepare for a glut!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The courgettes last Friday. They are almost double that size now and I have harvested the above 2 courgettes already! In the foreground I have sowed some runner beans a week ago which today have already got two leaves.</td></tr>
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calcitestarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03890458197442387939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4652684169870725208.post-79069154393764210322013-06-18T16:36:00.000+01:002013-06-18T16:36:17.161+01:00My allotment progress 17 June 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I managed to dig up another patch of weeds left over from the previous holder and have got my courgette plants in. After I dug out the weeds I dug a large hole for each and filled them with nettle tops. I have plenty of those growing round the old compost heap! I then topped them up with compost and planted a plant in each hole. I have also made a wall around each to stop the water running away when I water them as they like plenty of food and tons of water. The dull humid air today should be just right to get them started.</div>
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The iceburg lettuces were all growing in clumps so after weeding I carefully dug some up and transplanted some. I hope they continue to grow.</div>
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The beetroot is doing well and the radishes have gone mad!</div>
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I have got loads to take home. Radish is one of my favourite veg but I have never been successful growing it in my garden. It's supposed to be easy to grow too!</div>
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This one is the daddy of all radish! It had gone woody unfortunately but it is still the biggest radish I have ever seen.</div>
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The onion sets are really liking the open ground of the allotment and are growing nicely. Next week, when the days start to shorten is when the bulbs start to form. Hopefully I will get more than the pickled onion sized onions I get from growing them in my garden.</div>
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The broccoli is growing well too. It is protected from the pesky pigeons that hover around the allotment sight in the evening waiting for everyone to go home so they can munch on the cabbages and broccoli. </div>
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Growing out the side of the old compost heap is a comfrey plant. As you can see the bees are loving it. Even when I brushed into it they refused to move!<br />
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Well this is my garden in the first week of June . My wonderful Clematis called Diamontina is out in all its splender. The flowers are MASSIVE and are so beautiful. It's just a pity it's not bee friendly being a double.</div>
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My alliums are out now and as you can see the bees love these!</div>
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I now have 21 tomato plants in my green house. Just as well i love tomatoes.</div>
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Now the weather is warmer I have planted out my runner beans. They were dying to be released from their pots. I decided to leave the lettuce in as it had struggled through from last years sowing! The chinese leaves, in the foreground, which I planted a couple of weeks ago are doing well too.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I have at last got the Broccoli in and covered one half with the mesh that I bought. I just hope the rest survives until I get some more!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> The radishes are looking good and are nearly ready to pick but there is no sign of my spring onions. The lettuce and beetroot are coming along and the onion sets are making a good headway.</span><br />
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Well back to work but i'm feeling so much better and the sun is now out too. Happy days.<br />
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Last week I popped down and sowed some radish and beetroot and spring and welsh onions in the ground I prepared. I have not had success with any of theses in my garden and neither has my friend who lives the other side of town. Maybe a sunny site will allow these veg to flourish. We shall see.<br />
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The rhubarb has grown even more and is very nearly ready for harvest. It is amazing how quickly it has grown especially as it has only been 6 weeks since I first got my allotment and there was barely a sign of it then.<br />
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The potatoes which I found on my plot are very tasty. They are a firm creamy potato with lots of taste. Lovely.</div>
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My raspberries are growing well and every time I go to the allotment I have been trowelling the soil around them to keep the ground weed free.<br />
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I think very soon I am going to have to get myself a shed to put all my tools etc in. There is only so much I can lock to my compost heap!!</div>calcitestarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03890458197442387939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4652684169870725208.post-29276343530964249542013-04-07T19:08:00.002+01:002013-04-07T19:15:12.098+01:00Digging and sowing and new shoots<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I also recovered the ground that I am leaving uncultivated as the wind has blown the flimsey plastic off. This time I have used the heavier woven plastic that I had but remembered the scissors to cut it this time! I have also covered it with clods of earth to hold it down. Hopefully it will stay in place this time.<br />
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I decided where to put my shed today and I also covered that area in the remaining plastic to kill the weeds whilst I get the shed ordered.<br />
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I found the new shoots on the raspberry plants just coming through. I'm looking forward to tasting them in the months to come.<br />
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When I got home I sowed my flowering plants in line with the moon. I have sowed some sweetpeas called Gwendoline, Autumn Broccoli, a white cosmos called Purity, tagetes called Golden gem and Monarda Bergamo - a new on for me it has dark pink flowers on long stems and is attractive to butterflies and bees.<br />
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Today I got back down to my allotment and after a week and a half away on a course and a busy time at home. I set to with a quick trowel over of the soils I had dug round the raspberries and rhubarb last time and found more weeds that I had missed last time. I then de decided to start a new patch in order to prepare it for a crop of something later this year. There was an old square shape about 2m x 2m so I decided that would be just right to dog with my new spade. Just after I started I found a potato! Then after another couple of spades of soil lots of potatoes!<br />
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I decided to change to my fork to reduce the damage to them and over almost all the square I found bright red potatoes and then long finger sized potatoes. Does anyone know what variety they are?<br />
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It was a nice surprise but I didn't get to use my new spade very much! but I managed to get the area dug at least. Next time I will re-dig it and get the grass out of it. I may even get it levelled and ready for planting something in it. <br />
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When I got home and had washed off the potatoes I got in the hot tub with hubby. Now I feel completely relaxed and unable to to anything. Indian takeaway for dinner tonight wit a glass of wine is all I'm up to!</div>
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Today at last I have got my tomatoes sown. Mind you, with all this very cold weather it may be just as well that I have waited so long. Our house had been in turmoil since we got back from India as the conservatory has been cleaned and oiled and then Hubby's office was re-roofed and then stripped and relined and decorated so at times I have not actually been able to get into the garden! Now things are beginning to get back to normal and the moon calender says its a good time to sow them, they are in!<br />
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I have sown the wonderfully tasty but small Sungold, it's larger sister Sungella, the early cropping stripey Tigerella, a variety from the Heritage seed library called Joe Atkinson which produces large juicy fruit and lastly seeds from an envelope labelled " Tomato orange cookers 2009 Excellent" so we shall see how they turn out!<br />
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I still haven't been able to get back to my allotment but hopefully I should be able to get there before the end of the weekend as I have a wonderful new bronze spade to try out but with all the snow and frozen ground I haven't been able to try it.<br />
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Come on Sun, We need you. Bye bye snow and freezing weather, its nearly Easter and spring hasn't started yet!</div>
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