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New allotment OMG...Part 2...

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  • Gardengirl..Gardengirl.. Posts: 4,172
    GWRS says:

    Gardengirl will you get your shed finished before winter ?

     GWRS as the Winter Solstice December 21, 11:28 A.M. EST found on a website, so still have a little while yet, I hope to get it mostly done fingers crossed

    I have done more today on shed after getting more wood planks - so now I have 2 walls boarded half way and sanded 

    Sure cold wind today

    Scroggin I bet I will have to cut the grass again yet

    Zoomer if you join the committee you would get your input into the site I guess and have meetings, which would not be bad as long as you have the time, good if people don't mind the committee on your site and you don't have haters like some sites

    Bug hotel sounds good should cut my sunflower heads down

    Hampshire Gardener
  • Gardengirl..Gardengirl.. Posts: 4,172

    Harvest some celery today from plot, Sanded more planks today and cut up ready for the back wall of the shed

    Did a small bit of clearing in the garden one raised bed emptied

    Hampshire Gardener
  • Zoomer44Zoomer44 Posts: 3,267

    Gg. I've been invited to the next committee meeting so hopefully that will give me  an idea of what they do.

    Whilst I like having the plot I'm not sure I'd like it if I was on the committee,  I haven't committed myself yet .

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  • GWRSGWRS Posts: 8,478

    Scoggins , thanks for reminding me , Broad Beans under clouches 

    So much to do before bad weather hits image

  • LoanaLoana Posts: 427

    Scroggin, i did sow broadbeans direct in ground last year and started some in pots in cold GH, i would say that they both did equally as well in the end. My first batch of french beans and runner beans in the GH all got eaten by mice, nice neat little holes in all the pots, hence ended up sowing direct. Do you have trouble with mice? Do you put closh over your beans to protect from frost, snow? Do you get a better crop sowing now? Sorry lots of questions and a hijacking of the thread ?

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  • LoanaLoana Posts: 427

    Thank you scroggin, touchwood i have never had a problem with black fly. I always nip the tops out before any sign of them and we have those tops steamed for dinner ?

  • Broad beans are pretty hardy plants, I sow peas in trays and keep in plastic greenhouse most do ok in there, the peas I sowed up allotment all gone think they may have been eaten - you could cover the pots with chicken wire or net

    Scroggin I feel like I want to do digging but trying to sort shed out

    Zoomer That sounds a good idea see what meeting are like

    Here is a video I uploaded trying different editing programme

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq_-EFDDWY4

    GWRS don't want bad weather - so nice today done some painting on raised bed wood before gets built

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    Hampshire Gardener
  • GWRSGWRS Posts: 8,478

    Hello all , good day yesterday at plot , the sun even come out in the afternoon

    Prepared bed for last lot of onions and got beds ready for broad beans and peas for direct sewing but covered by cloches , Hoping to spend Sunday there 

    Rough dug the 2 big beds that had the green manure in , hopefully it will rot down over the winter 

    Took all the unripened figs off , such a shame 

    As ever lots of other little jobs done 

    Sprouts looking patheticly small 

    Sounds like we are all getting ready for winter ❄️ 

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