Author Topic: the veggie plot.  (Read 258027 times)

rustyme

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Re: the veggie plot.
« Reply #105 on: March 01, 2008, 07:10:50 pm »
well done .... hope you have more luck with it than I did !!!! I may dig my copy out sometime and have another go .....but then again maybe not... :D

Guy

  • Joined Feb 2008
  • East Devon
Re: the veggie plot.
« Reply #106 on: March 02, 2008, 08:22:49 am »
Morning all!!! what a busy week (alas , busy at real work - not fun work ;))  mothers day obviously -( happy mothers day to all you mums :)) so one of my departments busiest times of year ( ordered £60k worth of flowers this week - glad it wasnt with my money) at least thats over with for another year , and we can get on with work here! good news though, we have our tomatoes / cucumbers / peppers etc. coming through in the propagator!

your plot looks a good size linz - hope its coming together ok?

that planting guide is great Russ - v. useful , as you say there is always something that is forgotten!!
relax and enjoy life - let others do the worrying

rustyme

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Re: the veggie plot.
« Reply #107 on: March 02, 2008, 04:23:35 pm »
Glad the guide was of use mate....I really do forget loads ,so need all the help I can get !!! Toms,cucs and peps....blimey,  the early bird and all that ! I take it they are for a polytunnel ? It is a great feeling when things start popping up at the start of the year .
    Oh and REAL WORK ????? ;D ;D ;D

   I failed.......I wanted to get the plot all dug by the end of February, well I am still digging !!! I have got another 12 ft x 20ft to go .The bit dug gets wider towards the front (30ft) so as I get nearer the back there is less to dig . So , with some luck I should be done with the digging ( on this bit) sometime this week !!! hehehe.    Anyway , although I DID fail ...it wasn't by much .. I want to make the plot more rectangular too, so that will mean digging all the odd bits at the sides, that is only a foot or so here and there , so shouldn't take too long.....I did manage to get another 5'x20' done today and half of that was very heavy going for some reason. Still , nearly there ... soon be sowing loads of seeds....woopeeee....

Fluffywelshsheep

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Near Stirling, Central Scotland
Re: the veggie plot.
« Reply #108 on: March 02, 2008, 05:02:36 pm »
well done guy and rusty,

Because you are all getting on it has stopped me procasitating and I finally started. 1st of I atacked the pallet that I had laying around I then took them and made square areas and lots of hammering and sawing later i have a wee raised bed, I have collected cardboard and newspapers and put them in the bottom of the patch then i have added the soil on top.
Even thought it is only about 2ft squared i am so proud that i have made it from stratch.
This morning i also seached out all the fruit bushes that i had in pots and lined them up along the fence BOY have i got to many(15 in pots). I think that some might be dead but can't a hundred percentage as some of them are showing now sign of life but they sprout in to live . lol

Now am knackered

I was also in fear that i was become too dometic with the knitting lol

Linz



rustyme

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Re: the veggie plot.
« Reply #109 on: March 02, 2008, 05:19:50 pm »
thats really great Linz.... well done .... The size of what you are doing doesn't really matter much, it is the fact that you did it YOURSELF. When you get your crop of whatever you grow, be it fruit, flowers or veg, it will all be down to YOU ....That is where the satisfaction thing comes in . We can all go and buy the fruit, flowers or veg and even get it all organically grown now ( at a cost), but to grow it yourself and to have done the work yourself, IS, an achievment . As a nation we seem to have grown away from our roots in so many ways . So many people have never grown anything in their life, I think it is such a shame . The joy and satisfaction from growing your own veg or rearing your own animals is almost beyond words. So well done Linz ( starting is always the hardest bit to do ) well done......keep up the good work , oh and keep going with the knitting too ....The more strings to your bow the better....now have a nice warm cuppa and a biccy and feel proud of yourself......

Fluffywelshsheep

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Near Stirling, Central Scotland
Re: the veggie plot.
« Reply #110 on: March 02, 2008, 07:38:56 pm »
oh and keep going with the knitting too

1st sock completed :)
even hubby is surprise that i manage it lol

Guy

  • Joined Feb 2008
  • East Devon
Re: the veggie plot.
« Reply #111 on: March 02, 2008, 08:13:13 pm »
yep , they are certainly polytunnel bound - although as our bedroom is downstairs and off the conservatory  (this is where we keep the propagator), it is nice to look out and see all the new life first thing in the morning :) - and i know it seems daft , but i love watching (not in real time you understand) the seedlings all growing towards the light - magical :)

Again , a huge well done from me Linz - as russ says its all about what you have achieved for yourself - the self of satisfaction watching whatever you plant grow - is worth its weight in gold (or socks!! :D)
relax and enjoy life - let others do the worrying

Fluffywelshsheep

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Near Stirling, Central Scotland
Re: the veggie plot.
« Reply #112 on: March 02, 2008, 08:18:06 pm »
hehe

rustyme

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Re: the veggie plot.
« Reply #113 on: March 02, 2008, 08:46:57 pm »
well done Linz ...You never know you could have started a new career 'Scot Socks' ? Mind you scarves are easier ...they are straight !!!!
 
You are right Guy ....it is magical seeing new plants grow. You can almost see plants move , sunflowers follow the sun  round in an arc, and you really can almost see them move , does that make sense ? Oh well maybe not ...but you get what I mean ....well I do anyway... ;D   Another one ,Willow ... just a cutting at the start of the season, by the end of the year it can be 3 or 4 shoots 10 feet plus tall....once again ...magical ...

Fluffywelshsheep

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Near Stirling, Central Scotland
Re: the veggie plot.
« Reply #114 on: March 02, 2008, 08:54:14 pm »
hehe sunflowers and daffies :)
I love them and the make me smile, you see them progress
:)

rustyme

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Re: the veggie plot.
« Reply #115 on: March 02, 2008, 09:00:24 pm »
yep... the Daffs are out all over round here now....I love this time of year from now on ...well apart from tomorrow.... they said on the weather forecast that we are in for maybe 6" of snow....oh how I hate snow....even more than I hate digging !!! well at least they said the cold splat would only last 48 hours, then the temp will be back up to what it is now....fingers crossed xxx they get it right .

Fluffywelshsheep

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Near Stirling, Central Scotland
Re: the veggie plot.
« Reply #116 on: March 03, 2008, 10:32:38 am »
yeap we got a flutter of snow,
No digging for me lol I like the warth of my house when it is like this but i am think of look what seads i have to put a swap up for the ones i don't want.
and pot some of the ones i want in to potts in the kitchen (shhhhhhh don't tell hubby, he doesn't like the mess i make)

Linz

rustyme

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Re: the veggie plot.
« Reply #117 on: March 03, 2008, 04:22:25 pm »
hope you didn't make too much mess doing the seeds etc. Hope the weather was ok for you too. It has , so far , been ok here . Just a few hail showers here and there , but then the sun has come out and melted it all. I think the next 12 hours are likely to be iffy , but then back to warmish wet weather....the norm for round here lol... Anyway , I did get some digging done today . About 5'x'20 and some of that was very heavy going . It was undug very stony stuff ,about 5'x 6' , and needed to be attacked with the pick axe and all the stone cleared out . So very long winded and hard going . Looks like it may be much the same again tomorrow too , oh well keeps me fit  ;D  The ground dug so far measures somewhere about 30' (narrowing to 20')x 65' , and that is all dug down to a double spade depth, so well and truly DUG. Just another 10'-12' to go now. I just wish it was the easier stuff , rather than the very hard stony bit.

Guy

  • Joined Feb 2008
  • East Devon
Re: the veggie plot.
« Reply #118 on: March 03, 2008, 08:23:22 pm »
well done Russ - only a little left to go now........and then you can start on the planting!!! :D - hope you dont get too affected by the weather , its gone v cold here tonight , so had to put the lid back on the propagator , even though its in the conservatory. The p-tunnel seems to be keeping some of the cold out although i may make a dash out later to put  the heater on. i need to thin out the carrots tomorrow , but as i dont like to waste anything i am going to try and re-plant the thinnings elsewhere :o - that should be nice and fiddly , still with a cup of coffee and jazz fm on the radio, it should prove quite a relaxing "chore!" 
relax and enjoy life - let others do the worrying

rustyme

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Re: the veggie plot.
« Reply #119 on: March 03, 2008, 08:38:31 pm »
yes nearly done Guy.... just got to hope the weather holds up for sowing etc now..... Weather has been ok today till tonight !!! very heavy hail/sleet showers every now and then . They said that it will clear up soon though, fingers crossed. With carrots I tend to sow fairly thin anyway , but if I want to thin them I just leave them till the ones I pull are about the size of my little finger....they are really lovely at that size, I am an animal sometimes as I just clean off as much soil as poss and then eat them as I walk round the plot. I do the same with spring onions ,radishes, peas and so on ... The only thing with doing that is I have had my dinner at the plot , I don't feel like eating later, can't get any fresher though ....good luck with the weather and the carrots mate..... 

 

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