[Fluffywelshsheep]

lol you are showing off guy arn't you

I have life in my garden mainly slugs lol

on another note i have lots of seedling getting ready be put in also have peas and broad beads in that where cheap (i mean £1 a tray cheap) from B&Q

[rustyme]

lol.... yes, with the amount of water around at the moment perhaps we should all grow water melons...? errr me minds gone me thinks... one thing that I should have plenty of is water cress.... the river has it all along the whole 300 yards or so. It used to completely fill the whole river before I put the horses on the land. They must love the stuff ... If you get over run with cucumbers you could pick some small ones and make a few jars of gerkins ( if you like them that is ? ) If you had BIG jars you could have ferkins of gerkins everywhere.....   1" long cuc's .... mind over matter and they will get much bigger ...
        Although I am taking things easy still , I am slowly upping the amount I do . Not as much as before, but enough to keep fitness levels up , and not so much that I end up digging me own grave.... well fingers crossed anyway...lol
       I have plenty of slugs here to Linz, why don't they eat weeds ? they only ever eat anything I try to grow....

[Guy]

we also seem to be a home for lost slugs at the mo!! great little things eh!but we also have a few mice and rats - the mice started to remove all the runner bean seeds from their pots!!! so invested in some traps - so far we have had 4 small rats - plus my ankle when i stood on one in the polytunnel - (and these are big traps!!!!!!! )serves me right for going on about the amount we have got in our p-tunnel so early i guess!!!!
i like the idea of gherkins - so if we get a load of cucs we may give it a go ( and have a glut of gerkins - not as good as ferkins of gerkins  , but i have been at work all day!!!
good price for the p's linz!

[Fluffywelshsheep]

lol i got one tray of peas two trays of broad beans and a try a of sweet corns but i forgot about the sweetcorn out when we had a big hard frost and they all died oops
all at a £1 each


Linz

[rustyme]

Hello all,
          well I have at last got something in the ground....me spuds..... About b***dy time too. Anyway , I got one and a bit rows of King Edwards, two rows of Maris Piper ,five rows of Nicola and two rows of Jersey Royals in , over a hundred in total . Now it is just a matter of getting the other three sections cleared of grass and weeds. Everything is on the move now , the weather has been like summer here for a couple of days now. As you will see from the picture , it is drying the soil out already. However when I move the top half inch of soil , it is still nice and moist underneath.

   There is enough room left on the first section to plant the Jerusalem Artichokes in too , so I hope to get those in tomorrow ( a bit late I know ) . So after all the trials and tribulations that have happened I am at last 'GROWING VEGGIES'  again   I hope everyone elses efforts are continuing along well , now that the weather has changed for the better (dare I say that it was tooooo hot for me yesterday and today !!!! ). Oh yes ... I also had to water the spuds today too...  

[Fluffywelshsheep]

well done my garden is a state, behind as usually, put cabbage, pak choi,. getting ready togo away for a couple of day, I am going to grace  .  AM going to grace thoses of you in the south of the country that being Middlesex (i think) am going to see the Gladiators.
SO in honour of that i shall leave you on this note 2ACCIDENTAL SMALLHOLDER'S ARE YOU READY". lol

ttfn
i'll be back on sat/fri
fws

[rustyme]

Middlesex...thats my old stamping ground.....I grew up in Ruislip. I lived right next to Northolt airport(Ruislip Gardens). I could hear them start up the Spitfire they had there ( in the airport ) from our house , I would drop whatever I was doing and run round to the airfield to see them taxi it out of the hanger and then take off. I will always remember the sound of the old spit....I spent a few days , way back in about 1967/8/9 watching them film the Battle of britain . My dad worked as a booking clerk at Ruislip Gardens station , so I could go up onto the platform and watch the Spitfire , Hurricane and the Messerschmitt  Me 109 flying all over the place as if they were having a dog fight ....Oh and by the way , my first allotment was only 50-75 yards away from the airfield. Oh dear ...those were the days ... when I were a lad ....the sound of the hovis music.....( I must stop doing that !!!!)

 Have a nice time Linz &co.....( Wolf and co will be trying to knock each other off their zimmer frames nowdays...hehehe ).

[Fluffywelshsheep]

don't think wolf is in it now lol as we looked onthe website but he wasn't there
Linz

[Guy]

yes - enjoy yer break Linz!

Those spuds are looking good in the ground Russ - bet you cant wait for those rich green shoots to make an appearence   (by the way , since following you advice Russ , the frosted spuds look fantastic , saved our skin there!!)
We've been really busy here as usual , but I believe we now have everything in for this year !! Hussar
now all our time is taken up with watering and weeding - just the okra to pot on -we are now picking broadbeans as well - not a huge crop , but the first time we had tried them , so thats good news.
Hope everyone is well , and enjoying whatever they are doing 
keep well 

[Fluffywelshsheep]

hiya all am back now and the garden is bone dry  .
I guess scotland had the same weather London did!!!!
Travelling down it it 26 in the car Ouch

I got a sun tan just from sitting in the car with the window down.
Linz

[rustyme]

 I hope you had a really good time Linz.....it was VERY hot here too , 3or 4 days from about 23-25 , and the ground looked really dry . However it was only the very top layer , less than an inch , that was dry . We have just had a huge thunder storm ,with very heavy rain, here 12.30-1.00 am , so that should have watered the ground well for a few days . Still clearing weeds and grass from the next section on the plot , but it is getting to look like a veggie plot now ...at last...
       Glad the spuds recovered ok in the end Guy , they are fairly hardy things . I am looking everyday for mine to pop up now , along with the Jerusalem Artichokes I put in the last few feet of the spud section .I think I planted 22 JA's in the end.
      I hope everyone is doing well with their sowing and growing ....just the watering and weeding to do now ....JUST ??

[Fluffywelshsheep]

lol am just contomplating getting dresses so go sort out the garden, I also have to go get a couple of things that i have been gifted from freecycle so lots todo today

[Fluffywelshsheep]

How everyones gardens/allotment/plot

I managed to pick up over 100 tubers of pink fir apple potaties for £1.00. They are currantly weightting to go in the ground, hubby has promissed to make a new raised bed in the front garden (more stright looks)


Linz

[rustyme]

right ......well , nothing much been going on for a bit really . Just been getting the other sections of the plot ready for plants, weeding and de stoning. I have been taking it easy so , it seems to be taking forever. Anyway, I have another 15'x30' section ready now. So will be getting loads of seeds in now ( albeit a tad late !!!!). I couldn't do any today as it was so wet , very heavy rain after virtually none for ages. I have managed to carry a couple of dozen buckets of stone up to the track . That has to be done carefully to say the least, but I get there in the end. The spuds are well up and getting buried as they grow now.The rain will make them rocket away now I should think?. Even though I am so far behind now, it is really good to look at it and see a veggie plot before me again !! . Seeds to go in will be carrots (I have some white ,yellow, purple and red ones to try ), radish, onion, cabbage, sprouts, brocolli, lettuce, swede , mangles, peas, dwarf french beans, leeks , marrows/courgettes, cucumber, tomatoes and whatever else I have in my little seed collection . So , although late now with some of them , I should catch up by the end of the season .   
      That was a good buy Linz, the PFA's ... you will have to let me know if they taste as good as they are meant to ? I put in a couple of rows of Jersey Royals , I like them a lot .  I hope you got your extra raised beds sorted ok in the end. Looks like we have a few days of rain and generally crappy weather here , but looks like you may have the better weather ...
    Hope everyone is well and things are going ok ....  I will take some new pics when I remember to take the camera with me !!!
 
cheers for now

Russ

[Fluffywelshsheep]

not done much in the garden recently as i have been fit my my stomache probs again so am very reliant on everyone else at the moment but  hubby has done is back in to we are like a pair of old crocks at the moment.
Just managing to water stuff at the moment with the hose