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Chit Chat Garden ( 2017 )
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Nice one, Smarty. Usually by the time I get my hands on a camera the birds have flown, or do so just as I'm zooming in.
Think the worst of the cold spell is over now and I've transferred my young plants back to the cold frame to finish the hardening off process. I will be starting my winter squash and beans in the heated propagator over the next few days, starting today with the squash which germinate very quickly under the right conditions. These will be grown on under cover and planted out in June. My favourite varieties are Crown Prince and Marina di Chioggia. |
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RIP little blackbird
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It's sad M-D, but cheer up, he qualifies for a Darwin award.
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ate me first radish today!
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It never got down to zero here, 3°was the lowest but I suspect it was a bit warmer as we're in a built up area. I was around last night, had a great discussion with the Minister about gambling. He's a down to Earth guy that takes the odd beer but his Martingdale System just wouldn't work despite me trying to convince him
 I spent 90 minutes filling the water butts and watering, I didn't do much else. I've wood and netting for a few frames to protect Brassicas against butterflies. I'll try and build them this week. I'm going to move one of the water butts to the back of the Church, this will make filling much easier and maybe persuade the Minister to buy another couple or get that tap installed. |
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Deltâ 28 Apr 17 15:58
ate me first radish today! I picked one of my radish today whilst watering, they are meant to be the size and shape of a carrot apparently, this came out about 9 inch long and looking like a straw. |
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Makybe_Diva 28 Apr 17 14:02
RIP little blackbird It is a bit sad i suppose, especially as i have them taking beaks chock full of mealworms at the moment. But i do like to see the Sparrowhawks, they work very hard for their dinner. |
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They should pick on someone their own size
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I leave out nuts and seed in my garden and a pair of red breasted robins regularly pop in for lunch, such lovely birds
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Well done, Slippy
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I can't believe the amount of Sycamore seedlings in and around my garden ! I have pulled hundreds over the past week or so, they are everywhere
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I am moving my Runner Beans ( Lady Di ) out of the polytunnel and into large tubs today.
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Lovely new growth on my 2nd year Wisteria, has suddenly all died. Probably frost , 3 very cold nights last week.
Do I cut it all back, or wait until danger of more frosts have passed, and then relook for new growth and prune accordingly ? |
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my walnut tree/sapling went all black last week - = frost
today - noticed 2 cucumbers just popped thru after I had given up on them - taken a month! Parsnips and Leeks seeds planted today need rain tho! |
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I don't have Wisterias, Facts and only know that they are very vigorous. I wouldn't worry too much about the frost blackened shoots as it will soon produce new ones. The slugs will deal with any dead and dying foliage.
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Courgette [Black Beauty] and French Beans [Slenderette] seeds planted yesterday
still no rain  |
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I spent 90 minutes filling the 2 water butts and watering all the raised beds. The serve a small meal on Thursdays for all those that help out, while I don't partake in the meal I do fill my containers and get in their way while their eating
 The leader is getting the hint that we need an outside tap.Smar Tarse 28 Apr 17 19:12 Joined: 01 Feb 07 | Topic/replies: 6,530 | Blogger: Smar Tarse's blog Deltâ 28 Apr 17 15:58 ate me first radish today! I picked one of my radish today whilst watering, they are meant to be the size and shape of a carrot apparently, this came out about 9 inch long and looking like a straw. I read both these and thought I was miles behind but I just checked mine and their swelling nicely. I'll have to plant more along with turnip and beetroot to keep a constant supply. |
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my radish was from a poly Ovalman - if outside would be still waiting..
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Picked some Rhubarb
Tomatoes and Peppers growing well in empty bedrooms Raised Veg Bed ,has Rhubarb and 20 Strawberry/Pineberry plants(not much of a veg bed!).Peas now coming up in it. Apple trees in full bloom. One of my newer fruit bushes has flowered already and now turning to fruit , no idea what it is though. Some of spuds looked terrible after the frosts a week or so ago. Earthed the pots to the top and added a few later potatoes in case they are dead. My two large Broom plants were filling the garden with fantastic scent until the moor behind our house caught fire this afternoon. |
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I have my first pepper showing today.
Just picked another Radish, they are thickening up now. I must admit i didn't thin them out at all They are outside in a 3ft tub, it is just a mass of green tops, not a mm of soil to be seen  |
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todays planting, if I can be arséd to go out in the cold
Squash and Sweetcorn! |
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Slightly garden related, well it came from my garden. Half six this morning and i was woken by a really loud noise, like a firework going off
Looking at the "print" it has left on my window i would say it was a large Owl ! I have had a really good look about the garden for it, how it flew off from that impact i don't know |
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Haha, I had a similar experience with a woodpigeon. Left a large imprint in a powdery white dust. Stupid bird.
Potatoes are through so hoed them up to cover the shoots and added more mulch. Seedlings of Japanese greens, beetroot and broad beans also showing. Sowed a second batch of carrots in a raised bed. Garlic are knee high. Hoed off the weeds between the rows, fed with chicken manure pellets and mulched with a thick layer of grass cuttings. These won't need any more attention until harvest at the end of June. More weeds coming through so went round the plot with the mattock and chopped them down before they can develop further. Was ready for big mug of tea after all that. |
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Just ate my first radish this afternoon when I popped round for 10 minutes.
I had Courgettes in tip top condition in separate pots but somebody took them and crammed them into a raised bed in the polytunnel 6 inches apart. I told them last week that spinach is ready for picking and needed thinned out, it's going to go to seed imo. I put some netting over some brassicas but someone decided to pull it off and put it back on my raised bed, might as well feed the caterpillars eh. The church was also open this morning but they emptied both water butts instead of using the tap inside the Church. I despair |
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Owl or a very painfully flat faced Wood Pigeon ?
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FROST !
Yesterday i pulled all the lengths of split cane i had bowed over all my tubs and put the fleece and bubble wrap away. Last night it got down to -0.2°c inside my polytunnel Weatherman with his all new singing and dancing setup didn't mention frost at all, in fact i think he used the word scorching for the next few days |
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Scorching often means frost at this time of year - clear skies and all that.
Avoided frosts down here in Zummerzet. Been enjoying loads of excellent radish for 3 weeks now, no polytunnels or anything. Second crop peeping through, but that was a bit of luck in that I sowed them the afternoon before the Bank Holiday downpour. Loads of excellent parsley in the ornamental pots which the previous, OAP owners of the house had attached to an east-facing wall. Just have to remember to give them a bit of water each day. I have a couple of water butts fed from each slope of the greenhouse roof, and that provides plenty of rainwater for me. I feel for you, Ovalman, trying to make a go of things with collective farming. History is not on your side. As they used to say in East Germany, when the communists introduced it: "viel Arbeit, kein Essen" (loads of work, nothing to eat). It relies on everyone being thoughtful and sensible, and that's not the way people generally are. |
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The light is perfect for the Owl print on my window this morning, on closer inspection i can see two little eyes printed down at the bottom of it.
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Pinched out all the side shoots on my Tomatoes (Sweet Million F1). That leggy one i potted on really deep is the first to have open flowers on ( just two atm ).
I have a tiny but fully formed fruit on one of my Pepper (Razzamatazz) plants. My Sweet peas (Sir Henry Cecil) haven't moved an inch yet since they went in the garden from the polytunnel, they still look in good condition though. |
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Sorry to hear that Ovalman. It is hard to get people to work together on this sort of thing. My allotment has a lot of beginners and so I think it is more out of ignorance than anything worse, but we have ongoing issues that try as I might can't seem to get resolved. What doesn't help either in community gardening is the (in our case at least) frequent changes in plot owners.
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I texted last night and said I was too tired to fill the water containers and that the containers were empty. I'm getting the key for the church tomorrow so I'll water my own stuff if they aren't filled. I'm probably the most experienced among them having previously owned an allotment, I can see all of the mistakes they are making but don't want to give too much advice. The courgettes I bought were from the nursery but I've more growing from seed so I'll replant these in the pots so it's not a catastrophe.
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I've used up all the properly composted material from the the bottom of my bin, but a couple of weeks ago, as a sort of experiment, I stuffed half an inch of partially composted material into the bottom of five plastic trays, then scattered the contents of a packet of cress from Lidl over them. You wouldn't really call it compost at all - more like slimy brown leaves and stems.
Anyway, I applied a little rainwater, covered the trays with a supermarket carrier bag, placed them on the floor of the greenhouse (unheated) and completely forgot about them. A fortnight on and I suddenly remembered they were there this morning. I lifted up the carrier bag, expecting to see just some dried up muck, and instead found: [ This image is no longer available. ] The crop tasted excellent in the lunchtime sandwiches, and all the sweeter for the complete lack of thought, care or worry involved in its production. |
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great cress crop, result!
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Pond full of tadpoles now.
Most of the fruit /veg I am growing seems to be going well.....the odd thing being munched by slugs. Going to earth my potatoes in pots up to the top today. Picked some Rhubarb. |
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Well i don't know where you lot are in the country, but here in the east mids it is wet and very warm, ideal conditions for the dreaded Blight !
Just a reminder to keep your poly or greenhouse well vented and as dry as possible ( inside that is ).I haven't had my tomatoes killed by Blight for about 8 years now, lesson learnt that year by NOT keeping the inside of the polytunnel dry and well vented. |
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I went round tonight and watered my sections, 1 water butt was filled to the top while the other empty. I don't think anyone has filled these rather it rained heavily overnight (the smaller of the 2 butts is not connected to the downpipe as we need a 5M extension ladder to fix it.)
Radishes are ready for picking even the ones I planted along with parsnips. That great soil has a fungus growing from it and potato sprouts, maybe it wasn't so great after all. I removed all from my section but all the other beds will need sorted. Everything is coming on well even though nothing much has been watered. The courgettes seem to be doing OK in their new home. The Spinach hasn't went to seed but it needs thinning/ picking, that could be someones dinner instead of the compost heap. I'll have to top my spuds up, probably tomorrow night. I'll also have to stake my peas/ beans. I also planted a few extra broad beans and peas in spots where seeds have failed. There's other small areas with gaps in a row that will be filled with a seed to fill the space. |
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Finally, its arrived ..........
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Your radishes will love it.
Been showery for the last week in the West Country, and it's been a question of eating as many radishes as possible before the stems and leaves turn too tough to chew at the incredible rate they're suddenly growing. I love raw radish leaves while they're still young and tender and peppery, but the amount I've been getting through the last few days I've been farting worse than a dog on tripe. |
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the rain has enabled me to plant on my very first seeds I planted this year, slow old things - Celeriac
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I have put a Courgette in one of my raised beds today.
I have to protect the beds from the cats around here, they think they are sh1tholes  It is the main reason i am moving everything into large tubs, at some point i will dismantle the beds and have just tubs everywhere. |