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baggins11 wrote: »

I am glad you got your millstone! I hope you had great fun at the salvage yard. Under budget as well i am impressed. Careful with your sink - they are blinking heavy (but you knew that..)

Thanks - it is very very heavy, but it's pretty much in position thanks mainly to gravity & free delivery - just needs levering down into place with the aid of a short scaff pole or two (which I happen to have...)

-taff

what are you putting in the sink?

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-taff wrote: »

what are you putting in the sink?

it's going on the edge of the pondy area as a separate pool, might see if I can get another solar powered fountain to cascade into it, but then I've got to design a way of getting that water back into the pond. It's technically a feeder, so no plughole to fill. We've an old small rigid pond that seems to have split, so we'll get the sink/feeder in place, transfer everyone from the nackered pond, then see if we can fix that (I'm guessing some of that roof repair tape might do the trick)

Alternatively I've some good sized pieces of pond liner left, but that involves digging

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-taff wrote: »

what are you putting in the sink?

Ah, scratch that - the cat's in it now - I'll have to get another one

Dizzy_Ditzy

Hi all!

I've not been around on here much lately so I thought I'd pop in and say :hello:

This is my first proper year with our plots being side by side instead of on different sites and what a difference it's made! its so much easier

Potatoes are all in on my new plot and are more or less all showing through onions, garlic and shallots all coming in brilliantly and there are even a few raspberries coming though but not on all of the canes which I'm a bit annoyed with.

New hens are settling down nicely and we finally got the first egg yesterday :j

Tomatoes, peppers and courgettes all doing their thing in the greenhouse. Peas are just starting to come through too.

We've got a grapevine in the greenhouse that we want to plant at the allotment in the fruit cage so I'm hoping to get that done sometime soon. It's a red drinking grape variety that I can't remember the name of. I'd prefer a white eating grape though so if I can find one of those at a reasonable price I might stick that one in instead and put the red one at my parents house to go with their other one that's never really done very well

That's all from me for now. I'm looking forward to some lovely weather this weekend have fun and take care in the sun folks!

Jazee

I'm planning to spend time in the greenhouse today seeing what I can plant, pot on etc. Hope it doesn't get too hot in there.

Pablosmummy

Morning everyone what a lovely day! Gave the garden a good mow yesterday and it makes such a difference. Everything is growing well here, apple.blossom open although it's a family apple tree so three varieties in one, and one of them still refuses to grow any blossom but the other two look great at least. Maybe next year I will be blessed with three types!
Potted on some Pak choi yesterday and can just about see my cucumber seedlings about to appear this morning! Not much to do today garden wise, everything's just happy growing away.
Hope everyone enjoys this glorious weather!

Kantankrus_Mare

My cucumber plants on dining room table have flowers :eek:

Meeting Dad at the plot this morning and we will get cucumbers and 3 different types of tomatoes in their final places in greenhouse.

Just leaves my chilli and pepper plants at home then. Think I will give them a couple more weeks before taking them to the greenhouse.

My only loss has been some sunflower plants. I potted them on and took to the greenhouse where a few cold nights killed a fair few off.

The five that have survived look pretty healthy so will sow some more. Never really grown sunflowers before.

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend, getting lots done with this lovely weather we are due. :T

rosie383

Can I risk putting my seedlings out?

I really need to reclaim my indoor apace back and get it cleaned up properly. There has been no frost this week (managed to kill off 2 courgettes last week but 2 survived) and the weather forecast to come is pretty decent. I am in the south east and my garden is south west facing and quite sheltered.

I have a lovely new raise bed that dh made for me and I'm itching to get something in it now that I have discovered that next door's pooping cats don't like the herbal granules that I have been liberally scattering so they seem to have stopped using my veg plots as a loo.

I have tomato seedlings which are still quite small but with good true leaves on them. Also romanesco which are still quite small and spindly looking but not growing.

Can I get them out? And what else is ideal to grow in my new raised bed please?
I have rhubarb and strawberries growing happily outside and have sown beetroot and peas. Beans are good too. Some potatoes are in the ground but no sign of them yet.

So in case it was TLDBTR, can I get my seedlings out and what can I get in my raised bed?

Primrose

Rosie. I have the same dilemma with some our my seedlings sown a little too early and I'm also in the south east. Do you have anywhere under cover in a shed or garage for them to go overnight,or some old net curtains or gardening fleece you can cover them over with if it gets too cold or windy?
They really do need to be gently hardened off for several days, even in this warm weather, and brought in overnight or under cover somewhere.

You can grow courgettes, cucumbers, kale, Swiss chard, salad crops, dwarf beans, carrots in your raised beds. Leeks and long rooted parsnips might cause a few problems in digging them out when they're ready but generally I recommend trying to grow the crops you enjoy eating. Learning how to break the rules and getting away with it is one of the pleasures of growing your own vegs. Just be sure to keep them well watered when it's dry, and try to water in the early morning or evening when evaporation is at its lowest..