down at the allotment and in the garden what are you up to

Merry · Post: # 40317Post **Merry** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 4:59 pm

Similar! Digging & collecting the runner bean seeds for next year.
Also slashing some more brambles - i.e. blackberries where they`re not wanted.
Mulched me new strawberries with compost.
Picked cabbage & leeks for dinner.

the.fee.fairy · Thu Nov 09, 2006 5:22 pm

Been planning the garden/veg patch for next year. Can't really do much at the moment.

Waiting for my strawberry plants to arrive - then i've got to find somewhere to put them. might rope Dad in to help me make a new trough. there's room in the old one, but most of it is taken up by potatoes at the moment, ready for christmas!

Ordered a veg box and a fruit bag too, hoping to persuade my mother to stay away from T*scos

gunners71uk · Sat Nov 11, 2006 2:06 pm

arrived at allotment at 7.30 am picked a cabbage size of a football tundra ,and some nice size parsnips its like a treasure hunt digging in the area in line with the stick only cut one in half still edible i am very pleased with my parsnips nice size nice smell. did me last bit of winter digging on me main allotment just a bit of weeding to do and half of me other half i share with a pensioner.to winter dig so plodding on nicely.
regards dave.

Boots · Post: # 40590Post **Boots** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 3:05 pm

Recent rains have brought with them lots of life here. Have beans and peas popping up, chillis, and sweet potato in the house yard. Passionfruit has taken off again. New oranges on the way.

Still yet to plant out a lettuce bed and Daughter number two has plans for a couple of tomato and corn patches that she has tagged as tomorrows project.

Watching the orchard very hopefully as I have just seeded that out with pigeon pea one one side and amaranth on the other. Have also scattered a heap of flower seeds down one hill that leads to the house, so it would be nice if they are as hardy as the seller suggested.

Paddocks are looking great, and have oversown the native grass with forage sorghum and a heap of barley, stock corn and rye grass. A tad more rain should have that on the way. Fingers crossed. Sick of bringing in feed - and it goes totally against my sufficiency goals.

Signs of grass in the yards again. You probably won't understand how joyous that makes me feel... but it sure is nice to see a greenish country again. I have literally been trying not to step on it, hopping about from patch to patch just hoping it gets a good start.

Also lobbed in some jacarandas, jicama, pioncianas and luceana trees during the rain, so hope to see some sign of them too.

Tis nice to have some good growing news from aus!

Merry · Post: # 40606Post **Merry** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 5:16 pm

It all sounds wonderful!
We were all set to move to Queensland some 40 (yes forty) years ago but my then husband chickened out. I still love to hear and read about it!

the.fee.fairy · Mon Nov 13, 2006 4:23 pm

started designing the roof garden.

made new bed...

Other than that, i'm waiting for the veg to come up. Going to life leeks at some point - they missed the frost luckily, so theyre still ok. Got to dig up a couple of turnips and see how well they're getting on too.

However - i did make a pumpkin pie and some jam tarts!

Millymollymandy · Tue Nov 14, 2006 12:37 pm

Your leeks should be winter hardy, Fee Fairy. Frost doesn't bother them (unless there are some summer varieties that I don't know about!).

gunners71uk · Thu Nov 16, 2006 1:43 pm

went down the allotment broad beans not through yet but the onions are and the garlic and the shallots just getting there.moved old carpets on to old fellas allotment,moved a few to between our fruit trees and one nr the apple tree and raspberrys,hacked back blackberry brambles so more tidy will put muck on rhubarb soon.so i found something to do as it was too wet for digging
regards dave

Merry · Post: # 41208Post **Merry** » Thu Nov 16, 2006 4:56 pm

Too wet here also. Broad beans are looking good. I started them in trays and put them in a week or so ago. Dug leeks for dinner and brought cooking apples home from store for pudding.
Too muddy for weeding even!

the.fee.fairy · Fri Nov 17, 2006 11:18 pm

cool triple M, thanks. Looks like i'll leave them there for a while then!

gunners71uk · Sat Nov 18, 2006 2:39 pm

well got down the lottie for 8am dug roung me fruit trees dug another area so the second lottie i share is coming on well weeded and found the raspberry canes dug and weeded put stakes in and tie then to them a bit primitive but it will do me,harvested some leeks,parsnips and cabbage i was the only one down the lottie doing anything not bad for a softie southerner!!!!.a few came for a chat.it was windy and cold but was please with me efforts.
regards dave

gunners71uk · Sat Nov 18, 2006 2:39 pm

well got down the lottie for 8am dug roung me fruit trees dug another area so the second lottie i share is coming on well weeded and found the raspberry canes dug and weeded put stakes in and tie then to them a bit primitive but it will do me,harvested some leeks,parsnips and cabbage i was the only one down the lottie doing anything not bad for a softie southerner!!!!.a few came for a chat.it was windy and cold but was please with me efforts.
regards dave

gunners71uk · Mon Nov 20, 2006 12:08 pm

wheres the donation page gone andy help im lost want to donate santa letter money as booootsy sending letter soon
dave

Merry · Post: # 41739Post **Merry** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 4:54 pm

Spent the afternoon raking up leaves under the fruit trees and bagging them for leaf mould. The apple and pear trees have dropped but the cherry trees are still hanging on to a wonderful golden show!

red · Post: # 41741Post **red** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 5:02 pm

oh me too. I only did an hour tho - before the light went, and that cleared a teeny amount of ground!
you put the leaves in bags? how does tht work? mine went on compo heap