Help MBE grow his dinner 2012

mrbadexample

Pre-war_babe_33 wrote: »

Too cold out there to be tidying up so unless we have a nice warm day it is the end of gardening for me this year.

Spent a couple of hours yesterday tidying up, but I'm also pretty much done for the year.

Will be lifting competition carrots on Wednesday though.

annie123

mrbadexample wrote: »

Spent a couple of hours yesterday tidying up, but I'm also pretty much done for the year.

Will be lifting competition carrots on Wednesday though.

Not done here loads to do still;
Net the garlic tomorrow, squirrels digging them up:mad: wait for red currents to loose leaves so I can dig them up and move them, same with some of the raspberries, blackberries still ripening and need picking, lawn still too wet to mow so mower will go away till next year and hunt around for the odd garden tool that I've left out under a flower pot or something equally daft, for reasons unknown. Every year I find something going rusty which can only be seen when everything's died back. I do it every year and it really annoys me to find rusty tools. Not very MSE at all.

Most of the trees have still got all their leaves here and the nasty big sycamores almost in my garden are only just starting to get the odd tingle of yellow. Very late this year, usually started the leaf pile by now.

And I would appear to have only 1 ladybird this year:( very odd. I have read on a local forum that several others who have them overwinter indoors are lacking them too. I wonder if the very wet sunless summer here wasn't good for them. Hope it's not the same all over the country.

Fingers crossed for you MBE, looking forward to seeing the pictures.

Pre-war_babe_33

Don`t worry about the ladybirds Annie they are on holiday up here on the hill with me - but outside on the bushes, not indoors.

As for garden tools left out, I once lost a pair of secatares under a pile of tree prunings for over 18 months before I found them again and I am still using them well over 50 years later!

It is wise though to put garden tools away every day - I once rushed indoors when there was a sudden downpour leaving a long handled trowel on my patio and then forgot to bring it in when the rain stopped so it was used that night to break into my house wrecking the new double glazing that had only recently been installed.

Having just written that I have realized that I have been leaving my little stainless steel trowel out since the beginning of spring - must go and put it away I guess.

mrbadexample

Carrot competition results are in:

First:



Second:



Third:



Mine was second. Winner was grown in Norfolk.

Anyone else got an entry for the virtual prize?

COOLTRIKERCHICK

why does no 1 reminds me of something you would see in an A. Summers catalogue:cool::D:rotfl:

creeps back under my stone

annie123

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

why does no 1 reminds me of something you would see in an A. Summers catalogue:cool::D:rotfl:

That's exactly what I thought but all of them :rotfl:

MBE I'm impressed with all of them, well done.
Can't grow carrots on my clay soil, well, not unless you want soil mixed in on your dinner plate, all twisted shapes. Did grow some in my old butlers sink to prove to myself I could. They were nice but small.

You have won all the other comps I think so won't hurt to let someone else win. There's always next year;)

mrbadexample

annie123 wrote: »

You have won all the other comps I think so won't hurt to let someone else win. There's always next year;)

Thanks. Was quite fun that one, as we didn't know what we had until digging up day.

Next year's vegetable is yet to be decided.

mrbadexample

Stupid nasty sycamore has dumped leaves and helicopters all over my garden.







I must have pulled up about 12000 seedlings this year. :mad:

Pre-war_babe_33

Oh MBE I had only just been admiring how ultra tidy your garden was and now that tree has gone and spoilt it all. Best now to wait until all the leaves are down before you start clearing it up though or you will only have to keep doing it again and again and again!

Your pond is looking a bit dodgy too - have you got a net over it or are those leaves actually in the water?

annie123

mrbadexample wrote: »

Stupid nasty sycamore has dumped leaves and helicopters all over my garden.

I must have pulled up about 12000 seedlings this year. :mad:

Just the 1 sycamore tree? lucky you I have 3, 2 of which have just started to touch the boundary of my garden. Owners of said trees have promised to prune them this winter, if they don't might stick some copper nails in from the park side The 3rd is even bigger but 3 gardens down and just blows lots of leaves in.

Do bag those leaves up, might as well get something good out of it. And I hope you bought that pond a net when I told you too;)