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  • carinjo
    carinjo Posts: 934 Forumite
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    Finally managed to do about an hour's work on allotment. Worked out it going to take about 2-3weeks of careful weeding to tidy it up. Found clusters of mares tail which someone else mentioned last week i think and would like to share this site: allotment-garden.org.
    Since it all gone a bit pear shaped, due to bad back, going back to drawing board and do a new plan for next year. This weekend OH and I going to clean under all the fruit bushes. Neighbour helped me identify 5 different berry plants!
    Anyone know where I can get angled metal stakes i can use to fench in the bramble(?) ? Ebay does 2m ones for £9.99, but going to take a week. Unable to find any one sites like b&q, wickes.
    It's good for the soul to walk with your soles on the soil. 
  • unrecordings
    unrecordings Posts: 2,017 Forumite
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    You could try Screwfix / Toolstation - a roll of heavy duty wire might do the trick - thinking on, maybe a fencing company (eg - in Sheff I'd go to Hillsborough Fencing)

    Why am I in this handcart and where are we going ?
  • Suffolk_lass
    Suffolk_lass Posts: 10,299 Forumite
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    Carinjo wrote: »
    Finally managed to do about an hour's work on allotment. Worked out it going to take about 2-3weeks of careful weeding to tidy it up. Found clusters of mares tail which someone else mentioned last week i think and would like to share this site: allotment-garden.org.
    Since it all gone a bit pear shaped, due to bad back, going back to drawing board and do a new plan for next year. This weekend OH and I going to clean under all the fruit bushes. Neighbour helped me identify 5 different berry plants!
    Anyone know where I can get angled metal stakes i can use to fench in the bramble(?) ? Ebay does 2m ones for £9.99, but going to take a week. Unable to find any one sites like b&q, wickes.

    We have been looking to acquire some angle iron to de-mark our boundary (after the farm worker ploughed into our hedge and killed two trees last year) - I have been looking on Facebook marketplace - some there but too far to go for it.

    However, DH bought some fence pins (like these) - but 8mm not strong enough - we needed the 10mm which we are using to hold the rabbit fencing. I had also been looking at this mesh to hold back some invasive nettles - both on Amazing but B&Q/Screwfix have them (as may your local builders' merchant)
    Save £12k in 2025 #2 I am at £4863.32 out of £6000 after May (81.05%)
    OS Grocery Challenge in 2025 I am at £1286.68/£3000 or 42.89% of my annual spend so far
    I also Reverse Meal Plan on that thread and grow much of our own premium price fruit and veg, joining in on the Grow your own thread
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  • Suffolk_lass
    Suffolk_lass Posts: 10,299 Forumite
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    Harvested my first beetroot :) - we will have it for supper this evening - possibly raw and grated with white wine vinegar and grated carrot with caraway seeds
    Save £12k in 2025 #2 I am at £4863.32 out of £6000 after May (81.05%)
    OS Grocery Challenge in 2025 I am at £1286.68/£3000 or 42.89% of my annual spend so far
    I also Reverse Meal Plan on that thread and grow much of our own premium price fruit and veg, joining in on the Grow your own thread
    My new diary is here
  • dancing_star
    dancing_star Posts: 314 Forumite
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    Harvested my first beetroot :) - we will have it for supper this evening - possibly raw and grated with white wine vinegar and grated carrot with caraway seeds


    Ooh enjoy!


    I sort of harvested some beetroots, they needed thinning out so I took the largest baby beets.



    Rather disappointingly they tasted of not much! Last year I had really tasty beets and I've planted the same this year, bog standard Boltardy. Anyway I ate them as I was determined that I must jolly well enjoy them.


    One of my four cucumbers has wilted, I'm a bit puzzled. Possibly overwatered, although the others are doing just fine and I don't think I watered that one any more than the others. I'll probably rehome one of the aubergines in its pot as it is a larger one.
  • euronorris
    euronorris Posts: 12,247 Forumite
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    We've harvested some beetroot, though haven't eaten them yet. I might pickle them. Love pickled beetroot! We also harvested some carrots and had them with our dinner. They were delicious! Really tasty, and sweet :)

    Been out in the garden today and put the the tomatoes through a stemming process. Have potted on some of the branches in the hope that they will take root. If they don't, then oh well, at least we tried.

    DH cut the grass (which is looking much healthier, still got moss, but the weeds are gone), I raked it. I also potted on some strawberry plants. Ones I grew from seed and which I had convinced myself wouldnt amount to anything. They are now looking really healthy :) so that is satisfying!

    Been watching a YouTube channel called MIgardener. Really like it.

    Blueberry plants are heavy with fruit, ripening up. Not so many on the blackcurrant, but a few of them have already darkened, so that's cool!! :)
    February wins: Theatre tickets
  • Suffolk_lass
    Suffolk_lass Posts: 10,299 Forumite
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    Weeded all the paths between the raised beds (never-ending) and painted round-up on every new shoot of ground elder in the big clump of agapanthus that my cousin dug out of the front garden, in an effort to save the agapanthus. I also removed the remnants of the radish row that had all top-growth and woody red sticks where the plump peppers radishes should be. More are on the way.

    All my spinach is trying to go to seed and is still tiny!

    Lots of watering too. Lots!
    Save £12k in 2025 #2 I am at £4863.32 out of £6000 after May (81.05%)
    OS Grocery Challenge in 2025 I am at £1286.68/£3000 or 42.89% of my annual spend so far
    I also Reverse Meal Plan on that thread and grow much of our own premium price fruit and veg, joining in on the Grow your own thread
    My new diary is here
  • zafiro1984
    zafiro1984 Posts: 2,529 Forumite
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    I am so annoyed with myself. I forgot to open the greenhouse doors on Friday and we were out all day. Saturday I went off early to the Carboot Fayre with my plants and came back to see a very sorry sight of collapsed plants everywhere. I've copiously watered everything but I think I've lost most of my seedlings, leeks, some celery, kohl rabi, and cauliflower. I'll give it a couple of days to see if anything recovers. Fortunately the tomatoes look OK it's just all the seedlings in small pots.
  • Primrose
    Primrose Posts: 10,703 Forumite
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    Very humid here today. I fear another blight warning is imminent.
    Zafiro - that's bad luck. We've all had these "forgotten" moments. With luck some of your seedlings may perk up.
  • unrecordings
    unrecordings Posts: 2,017 Forumite
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    Been there - it's so annoying, but you might be able to recover some with a little TLC - for example I've now got four pretty healthy Christmas Grape tomatoes from the pots I gave up on and over sowed with kale

    In other news, I'm a couple of days away from my first courgettes. And I finally got around to re-sowing the runner beans that had been munched, dug up or just plain vanished, I sowed some Malabar Spinach (which is not really spinach) and picked half a dozen wild strawberries

    Why am I in this handcart and where are we going ?
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