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Help MBE grow his dinner 2012

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  • mrbadexample
    mrbadexample Posts: 10,805 Forumite
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    I have done gardening. Go me.

    I have taken down the overhanging tree, which turned out to be the prickliest thing ever. Ouch.

    I bet it wasn't as prickly as my gooseberry. :p
    If you lend someone a tenner and never see them again, it was probably worth it.
  • mrbadexample
    mrbadexample Posts: 10,805 Forumite
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    This seems really dated now. Hands up if you don't understand the line "on telephones we haven't got". :rotfl:
    If you lend someone a tenner and never see them again, it was probably worth it.
  • mrbadexample
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    Just a quick update as I've packed in for the day now. The pond looks about the same as in the previous picture, but I now have 6 tubs of sieved soil. I will have the finest parsnips and carrots ever. :D

    I've started to wonder if my liner (20' x 10') will be wide enough. :undecided I don't think I'm going to be digging more than 2'6" deep, that's for sure. Still that should be plenty.

    My back aches. However, I have an urgent appointment with several mates, one curry, and several pints of anaesthetic. :j

    See you all tomorrow. :wave:
    If you lend someone a tenner and never see them again, it was probably worth it.
  • emiff6
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    edited 6 April 2012 at 7:19PM
    I've started to wonder if my liner (20' x 10') will be wide enough. :undecided I don't think I'm going to be digging more than 2'6" deep, that's for sure. Still that should be plenty.

    My back aches. However, I have an urgent appointment with several mates, one curry, and several pints of anaesthetic. :j

    See you all tomorrow. :wave:

    There's a simple formula to measure how much liner:

    To calculate the amount of pond liner required measure the width of the pond at its widest point, the depth at its deepest and the length at its longest. Then use the following formula:
    For the width: Width + (depth x 2) plus 30cm (or 12 inches if you still run on Imperial, like me)
    For the length: Length + (depth x 2) plus 30cm
    So for a pond that is 1m wide, 50cm deep and 2m long, you would need a pond liner that is 2.3m wide by 3.3m long.

    I'm impressed at your patience in sieving all that soil. I remove half bricks as I dig, but anything smaller is only taken out when it reaches the surface. :D
    If I'm over the hill, where was the top?
  • annie123
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    I've started to wonder if my liner (20' x 10') will be wide enough. :undecided I don't think I'm going to be digging more than 2'6" deep, that's for sure. Still that should be plenty.

    My back aches. However, I have an urgent appointment with several mates, one curry, and several pints of anaesthetic. :j

    See you all tomorrow. :wave:

    You'll be fine with that liner, remember to have some shallow bits too and 2 1/2' will be deep enough, although my son's goes down 3 1/2' in one bit but that's so his fish can overwinter well away from any ice forming. Think mine's only 2'.

    The only thing I've done today is buy and lay new carpet in the study. We have several hundred books in there:o so took a while to remove all furniture, lay carpet and put back. But I did move my pot bound toms and peppers to a safe place before we started :)
    That's the closest I got to gardening today, and tomorrow at mums so if it could stay dry for Sunday I'd be very pleased as I feel really guilty that my toms are still in 2" pots:o
  • oldtractor
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    Here we go again, helping MBE grow his dinner. Its becoming an institution.
  • lisakay_2
    lisakay_2 Posts: 435 Forumite
    @john, hope you're recovering well x
    me and the girls spent a lovely couple of hrs at the lotty this afternoon. started digging my potato trenches in half of the old strawberry patch that has got completely out of control and freecycled four carrier bags of strawberry plants and a couple of raspberry canes.
    The rest of the strawberry patch will be this years brassica beds.
    collecting a couple of freecycled pallets tomorrow too, to go towards my shed project, although I confess, when I've collected all the wood I need, I haven't the foggiest what I'm going to do with it!!! I struggle to put up curtain rails, never mind build a shed:rotfl:.

    The 2 grape vines I put in in the autumn are doing very well and the goji berry is getting leaves after I thought it was dead.

    I gave the apple tree a good haircut last year and I may have gone a tad too far:eek:, there are a few little shoots on it but I think it's going to take a good couple of years for it to recover. The pear and damson are blossoming nicely.

    All of the seedlings I have in the garden are doing well despite the cold blast we had, our garden is quite sheltered which is just as well because i forgot to bring them in or cover them:o.

    lots of jobs to do tomorrow, just not sure where to start!
    freecycler and skip diver extraordinnaire:cool:
  • hazzie123
    hazzie123 Posts: 2,755 Forumite
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    I have 36 tomato seedlings through now,I have lost a few pepper seedlings though.I don't think their seed leaves formed well and a couple have called it a day :( I checked on my Carrots and nothing through yet,but I have hope that they will be through soon.Will be sowing more carrots in a couple of weeks time,I also have shed loads more to sow but it's finding space on windowsills and my greenhouse is unheated.
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  • Sambucus_Nigra
    Sambucus_Nigra Posts: 8,669 Forumite
    annie123 wrote: »
    I feel really guilty that my toms are still in 2" pots:o

    I have about 200-300 seedlings that are still in 2 inch pots - but not even on their own - they are still in the pinches that I sowed them in, so about 20 seedlings in each pot.

    I have run out of pots to put them in so I'm making paper pots today and putting a selection of the heritage tomatoes and peppers into half sized seed trays in the paper pots ready to give away or swap later in the year.
    If you haven't got it - please don't flaunt it. TIA.
  • mrbadexample
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    Too wet to do much today. I'd end up churning everything into a quagmire. :(
    If you lend someone a tenner and never see them again, it was probably worth it.
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