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Post by 4pygmies on May 11, 2007 14:14:24 GMT 1
NO! It's BOUND to snow or something......I know what you mean though - you should see the size of my courgettes........they're going mad.
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Post by sweetleaf on May 11, 2007 14:18:01 GMT 1
Ok babe Ill hold back as long as I can, but its sooo hard!  |
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Post by mickthecactus on May 11, 2007 14:52:02 GMT 1
Good job you're not growing melons then 4P.............
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Post by sweetleaf on May 11, 2007 14:52:59 GMT 1
She is I think!  |
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Post by sweetleaf on May 11, 2007 15:18:24 GMT 1
Just had a phone call, its about my chippings...... maybe today, maybe tomorrow morning! I am waiting for a phone call on my mobile now either way Yippee! |
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Post by 4pygmies on May 11, 2007 17:09:46 GMT 1
The melons are on my Mum's kitchen window but they look pathetic - as do the Broccoli plants that she has too - don't quite know what she's doing to them and I can't take them away as she'd be hurt....sigh, poor old Mum.
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Post by sweetleaf on May 11, 2007 17:12:19 GMT 1
You could, if you replaced them with something else, or tell her they are ready for the PT?  |
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Post by sweetleaf on May 12, 2007 10:48:12 GMT 1
I have spoken with the tree surgeons, who call me sweetie btw How do they know!?? They are working in Four Oaks today which isnt that far from me, and will be delivering a load of sycamore chippings to me for my paths today. My brother is coming to help me and I have organised a "lift" for the lawnmower too, today the second plot will get a good tidy and hopefully the Garden tractor will make a difference over the next week or so (maybe even today if I have my way)  Meanwhile OH has promised to make some headway with the GH at home if he gets a moment. Hope it all works out, I could do with something going right for once! Oh and I shall be planting out my sweet peas today too, I need the room on the staging for more sunflowers! |
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Post by 4pygmies on May 12, 2007 20:33:27 GMT 1
Did it all work out then?
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Post by sweetleaf on May 12, 2007 20:41:04 GMT 1
 Yes! I have Kilimanjaro made of chippings!..... and I have done all the paths I have already created!..... Im making more tomorrow  You should have seen the size of the tipper that came, and it was full!
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Post by maggyd on May 12, 2007 20:59:32 GMT 1
Hope you get help shifting it S we got a load of topsoil delived once when we lived on the bus rou te and they tipped it on the front street! of course no sign of my sons when they are needed and it was panic stations to move it before the neighbours kids kicked it all over the street.  |
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Post by 4pygmies on May 12, 2007 21:00:18 GMT 1
Jolly good. Chippings are brilliant. What was that old sci fi film where he kept making mountains out of mash etc? With the bit of music? OMG I can't remember anything tonight......
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Post by sweetleaf on May 12, 2007 21:02:11 GMT 1
Close encounters of the third kind!
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Post by 4pygmies on May 12, 2007 21:06:09 GMT 1
That's the one. Glad your memory is OK at least. Why did I want to know? .... |
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Post by sweetleaf on May 12, 2007 21:10:45 GMT 1
Dunno!........  |
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Post by sweetleaf on May 13, 2007 13:31:29 GMT 1
Got rained off today, it hasnt stopped since early on, I still ache everywhere though so its probably for the best, and the mulch will have been bedded in too. I wanted to get so much done this weekend though. Oh well, theres always tomorrow. Meanwhile, the greenhouse needs a tidy so I can get in there and potter after dinner.  |
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Post by mickthecactus on May 14, 2007 12:55:29 GMT 1
Well, I've certainly had enough rain to soften up the undug part. All I need now is for it to stop so that I can actually get on it. Been raining all day here.
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Post by sweetleaf on May 14, 2007 13:04:48 GMT 1
I wore an army raincape to do what I did but I still got drenched! I shall have to get some new wellies too mine are not waterproof any more, socks were soggy too!
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Post by sweetleaf on May 15, 2007 17:43:35 GMT 1
I know I said I wanted rain but give it a rest, I need to go and get some work done and its rained every day for a week now. Im going tomorrow regardless of the weather! Ive had enough of this enforced imprisonment. |
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Post by mickthecactus on May 16, 2007 13:25:05 GMT 1
I'm hoping to go this evening. Dry so far here today.
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Post by mickthecactus on May 16, 2007 13:36:15 GMT 1
Spoke too soon! It's dark and raining now.
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Post by mickthecactus on May 18, 2007 13:36:47 GMT 1
I haven't been to the allotment for about 10 days because of the weather but it is so lovely here today that I walked up there at lunchtime.
Despite (or because of) my nightly watering of the seed drills germination has been patchy:-
Pink Fir Apple potatoes are just showing
Leeks, spring onions, broad beans, mixed leaves have all germinated well.
Beetroot and carrot not quite as good.
Spinach and radishes about half.
Parsnips have pretty well failed again. However, being positive I have some extra space for something else.
I wonder if all that watering was actually worth it. Should I have just left them until the rains came perhaps? My plot is very exposed, is on a hill and stony so it dries very quickly. Nevertheless once they come up they crop quite well.
I tend to sow in situ rather than grow elsewhere and plant out. Because of the dryness (last year being a prime example) transplants such as French beans and sweetcorn pretty much failed as well and didn't crop.
I hope to start on the undug area tomorrow although I have more work to do on my daughters garden.
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Post by 4pygmies on May 18, 2007 15:10:23 GMT 1
I think it is worth watering Mick! And I can't get parsnips to grow either. That's why I do mine in loo roll inners - that way I don't waste space. I still only get about a 50% germination rate though....
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Post by mickthecactus on May 18, 2007 15:13:44 GMT 1
The strange thing is that I had no problem with them on my old allotment a few years ago. Perhaps it's the quality of the seed?
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Post by 4pygmies on May 18, 2007 15:19:41 GMT 1
I think it's one of those funny things - you never have trouble until you read that they're tricky, then you can't get them to go for love nor money!
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