Wednesday, July 22, 2009 - 18:17
Ye Olde Veg Plot
As you know I have a little green fingers.
The runner Beans are coming on, and the Sun Flowers at each end of the run are nice and sturdy now!
I got to dig up the onions and potatoes, then weed the plot
The gooseberries are coming to an end, so I feel a pie coming on! On home leave next week(?) so I might just bake a pie!
Marrows/cucumbers are slow to grow in the greenhouses, and the tomatoes are not much better
WE NEED SOME prolonged SUN
Ah the salad tray (gutering) has been a little dispointing! The herbs basically failed. Possible over watering with NO sun!. Anyway, the coriander is sprouting well, and the Little Gem Lettuce is coming along. The Spring (Salad) onions are really slow to show!
the trench, is slowly draining so I will have to dig the center out, and apply compost! Then, I can plant out the beetroot, Sprouts, and Leeks!
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ha ha ha ha ha ha ha im not welsh or a new zealander
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gimpnoid ,,the ledgend grows LOL
So you took your evenge on the sheep? The thought of those little black pellets in your wellington boots!
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my bananas are kept in the fridge mate ,,cool bananans
and my youngest left the gate open to my vegie patch and the sheep got in ,,oh well start again hey
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gimpnoid ,,the ledgend grows LOL
How's your Dolly collection?
And I do not want to know where you keep you banana!
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cool bananas ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
am i annoying you yet andy
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gimpnoid ,,the ledgend grows LOL
Another sugestive comment then!
Went up the garden to the green house this afternoon after work, and found 6 cucumber un attached, so they are now in the house wrippening.
The Marrow is barely 2" long, but hey we might get a Courget after all
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cool bananas
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gimpnoid ,,the ledgend grows LOL
You got the land, and you must have a white horse! hahahahaha.
Batch one of the cling film and bubble wrap heading south!
Batch two going west goes tomorrow! Long story why there is a gap, but if you know the situation, then you will understand!
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ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha yep i think years ago i may have seen animal farm,,but only once ,,that was enuf
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gimpnoid ,,the ledgend grows LOL
Animials and farm I was once told were in a film tittle! What can we say to that one, a confession! hahahahaha
Anyweay the cucumbers are still growing slowly, due to the cooling of the weather
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i prefer miss piggy,,
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gimpnoid
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Are you sure, or are you playing with Kermit?
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nope
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gimpnoid
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Sounds like you have sat on it! hahahahahahahahaha
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well mate me tomatoes are flowering and i have put in corn ,zukeeny,lettuce,onions,squash,pumkin,cucumber ,so i'll see how my green thumb is
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gimpnoid
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Had a great day out in Calais yesterday, and this morning I have found that the rain and wind has blown ovwer my runner beans, so I have to go out into the rain and either pull them up, OR stiffen the canes holding them up! Tough call or what!
Cucumbers appear to be still growing despite it getting cooler
And I think that the marrows will become more like Courgets! So I must make a move and have a better look.
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s*** snow at christmas,,not within cooee of me,,
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gimpnoid
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At least there is achance that we will have SNOW at Christmas,and not sat outside with the BBQ!
Anyway, the runner beans keep supplying us no end. The cucumbers are growing niceley!
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tomatoes are now over a foot high,,love the spring time
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gimpnoid
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Had light showers today!
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yes the weather is strange these days,,and its hard to figure
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gimpnoid
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Still quite warm though for the time of year.
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hey andy sounds like the cold is on the way mate,,well over here just going thru a few cold spells but the heat is in the air and when it hits im climbing in the fridge
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gimpnoid
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1848 and it is getting dark so no work in the garden tonight
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Autumn must be coming!
The leave on the Horse Chestnut (Conker) Tree 2 doors down are starting to go a golden brown.
The cucumbers are still in thier element
Runner beans still have flowers, so lets hope for some sunny weather for another month without frost! There are still a few Sweet peas flowering on the canes. Anything to bring the BEE's in, as they are having a rough time of things
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Pruned the Apple tree, picked some runner beans, transplated Sprouts and beetroot, and by the way I cut 3 lawns
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my vegie plot has now got a new lot of lettuce and some more tomatoes and onion and pumkin and soon to have zukeenies and cucumbers plus corn
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gimpnoid
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The Tom's will be in thwe big Green house along with the Cucumbers. The Marrow plants flower, BUT NO fruit!
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if the subsoil is wet then it might if you get no hot days mate,,our subsoil is dry as hell,,lucky we got constant river water
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gimpnoid
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All's well that should end well.
Transplanted some Sprouts and Beetroot today, and my second flush of Tomatoes. this batch will be fed and well and truely watered! I hope that the weather holds for over a month or two!
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nah man cant sleep -- thought i'd annoy you northern hemishere guys ha ha ha -- say hi to dad for me or g'day mate hows it going ha ha ha ha
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gimpnoid
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Whats up Gimp? You should still be tucked up in bed, as it is 1700 over here! Got to take my dear old dad to the quacks in a bit, so I will have to log off, for a while. Then I suppose I will have some nice sparkling orange ade! role on 22 days time, and I might just get poisoned! hahahahahahaha Mind you I did that once and was shaking for over a day, with a splitting head ache!
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go for the good women andy ha ha ha ha but you'll want more than her hand ha ha ha ha and i didnt know if --oh doesnt matter ha ha ha ha
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I accuse nobody of anything . as it is just the sort of guy that I am! Staright as an arrow! My heart just needs the warmth of a good woman! She could take me in hand!
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were i did i say you were heart less or spineless ,,or are you assuming that was my next hassle for you andy ha ha ha ha ha ha ha it could of been ,well the heartless one maybe -- they said my heart is frozen thats why it needs electricution ha ha ha ha ha
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gimpnoid
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Just tell us about the real one outside, as I do not want to delve into that active mind of yours. The thought sends shivers down my spine. ANd yeas I do have a Heart and Spine! They showed up on my X Rays, as well as some white shading at the bottom of one of them, with a line across the other!
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well i do have two vegie plots one outside and the other is my mind ha ha ha ha ha
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gimpnoid
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Thats good news! Who is next to get a VEG PLOT?
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my garden is getting the taste of spring and those lettuces will be eaten to night and up coming days
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gimpnoid
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While recupperating yesterday, I went Foraging!
I came back with Rose hips, and Sloes. That has meant that I have had to process some 3 years old Sloe Gin into 9 bottles, and prep the next batch. It greieved me to compost 4 lbs of old friut, but I had reclaimed the previous lot! BUT, I have 26 days of antibiotics to go to get over my slight bout of pnemonia. Then I might just party! horay for that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
The I had to put the hips into a sauce pan cover with water and boiled away on a very low heat for many hours. Then I poured the c***ents into a fine meshed sive over a funnel (tun dish) so that the contents went into an old Jam Jar! How's that for recycling.
In Ireland the lady of the house has just learnt how to pickle, and started with red cabbage! She rough shred it, sprinkled with salt for 12 - 24 hours, wash it off, place in jar and top up with malt vinegar! Do not pickle smallonions, as Shallots are a lot sweeter.
I might just try and pickle some grlic, as THAT is extremely Moorish
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