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humbertug · Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 7:33 pm Post subject:

me too Flo I've got 3 trays chitting away on top of the cupboard in the kitchen Very Happy

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lily · Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 1:55 pm Post subject:

Me too Flo and HT Rolling Eyes

Veg patch is way too soggy - if it's not dried out by next weekend I'll probably bung all mine in compost bags or containers Evil or Very Mad

baggy · Joined: 16 Jan 2006 Posts: 1304 Location: Kent

Still not been to plot since T-Day. They have shifted my shed but I have to put all the crap from the old one into it as someone wants my old plot Crying or Very sad

Need to rally the troops for a shed emptying/twinny cuddling day. Only then can I think about starting on planting stuff. I need to find a company or GC that does plug plants for a reasonable price (or I'll ponce them from the codgers) so I can bung something in at least. If nothing else I am sure they will have courgettes and toms spare. As for spuds? Not this year I dont fink.

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wardy · Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 4:42 pm Post subject:

Plants of Disinction have a good choice and you can buy just one of each rather than 16 of each like from Marshalls etc

frenchchique · Joined: 22 Sep 2006 Posts: 3497 Location: Kent

If you want courgettes and things, if mine survive.. yer can have a few ... Embarassed

Daren't say for sure, as last year, i had undreds, and they all died Embarassed

Munched to death before they even left the gh Rolling Eyes

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redimp · Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 9:15 pm Post subject:

I have spent the past year collecting large juice and water bottles (we only by 4 or 5 litre ones here now and the uniformed groups get through loads and they save me them) and am going to bottle cloche all my tender plants this year so I can get them out 2 weeks earlier and so the slimies don't get them.

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loobytoo · Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 9:43 pm Post subject:

I've put my Vales Emerald and Rocket in today - next door plot did his yesters, so I followed suit Embarassed

I've no real idea where the last bloke grew anything, so have had to guess - I dig up odd taters and carrots and onions completely randomly it seems Shocked

The general concensus tho is that he didn't do a lot for the 4 years he had the plot. Gues I'll find out if everything keels over Confused

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redimp · Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 9:49 pm Post subject:

I have perfected my rotation I think. The plot is split into four areas but then each of those areas is split across the middle. I have an eight year rotation for virtually everything except Potatoes.

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wardy · Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 9:51 pm Post subject:

rotation

I don't bother. I adopt the hokey cokey method Embarassed

redimp · Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 9:56 pm Post subject:

There's another thing. What do you think life would be like if it was all about the hokey cokey Shocked

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loobytoo · Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 9:59 pm Post subject:

I liked you already Wards and you've just gone up a bit in my estimation Cool

I think for me this year'll be a bung-it-and-see job in my 4 marked out divisions. I'm quite scientific doncha know. and an optimist

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wardy · Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 10:02 pm Post subject:

hokey cokey is about life. Life's a lottery. It's a metaphor Very Happy

Oh kiss me in the middle, oh kiss me in the middle ......

Flowerlady · Joined: 15 Jan 2006 Posts: 3359 Location: Herts

... two rows in yesterday (Homeguard and Rocket) 10 of each to try. Wink

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wardy · Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 3:56 pm Post subject:

I got 10 tubers in a tub. Ratte! Thanks MB Very Happy

redimp · Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 5:35 pm Post subject:

Got thirty spuds in today - 11 Vales Emerald and 19 Home Guard. Never planted potatoes when it has been snowing before and this is the latest I have started getting them in. Also put my first spring sown broad beans in. Haven't done the second spring sowing yet. Must get on with it before it gets dark but still have the dog to walk. Busy busy busy.

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wardy · Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 8:46 pm Post subject:

no spuds planted here yet. Tum ti tum Rolling Eyes

windy · Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 140 Location: wiltshire

still waiting, b****Y snowed today Crying or Very sad

have to try during the week

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redimp · Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 11:35 pm Post subject:

Weathers a twit (insert alternative vowel of choice) at them moment ain't it Windy. Snowed, rained, snowed then rained tonight - currently raining. Rolling Eyes

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frenchchique · Joined: 22 Sep 2006 Posts: 3497 Location: Kent

Don't start me on the weather Shocked

First lot of potatoes in, Lady Christl... but that was yesterday...3 more to go and I hope said weather improves during my holidays Evil or Very Mad

I also hope my newly hatched tadpoles don't all die in this cold spell Sad

First time ever I have tadpoles ever since I was a little kid Cool

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redimp · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 12:23 am Post subject:

Tadpoles are pretty hardy Dom. Frogs lay eggs in pools on mountain tops in Scotland and because the season is so short they overwinter and become Frogs the next spring. So they should be OK. Smile

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frenchchique · Joined: 22 Sep 2006 Posts: 3497 Location: Kent

Aww thanks for that Impy, I'm not kidding, I've been ever so worried about them cos my pond's not quite deep enough apparently Shocked

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reedos · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 7:26 am Post subject:

Plonked a load of seaweed on top of my tatties at the weekend - Ady says it works in Jersey Very Happy

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redimp · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 8:35 am Post subject:

Yeah, but don't you go blaming me if it all goes tits up!! Twisted Evil

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daveandtara · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 11:31 am Post subject:

frenchchique wrote:

Aww thanks for that Impy, I'm not kidding, I've been ever so worried about them cos my pond's not quite deep enough apparently Shocked

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it's not as deep as the 'experts' recommend Dom, your liner would never have stretched that far. But we put a little rockery round the outside for the frogs to hibernate in for that very reason Laughing

The tadpoles however, don't need to hibernate Very Happy

And your pond is unlikely to freeze all the way to the bottom even in a really cold patch.
Mine never froze at all Laughing

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frenchchique · Joined: 22 Sep 2006 Posts: 3497 Location: Kent

And it worked beautifully Tara Cool

I'm absolutely thrilled with that pond , sad huh Embarassed

But ... but.. t'is the first time I have my own pond Very Happy

And it's teeming with wild life Cool

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