The all new 2019 growing your own thread!

spadoosh wrote: »

Thanks, they look smart! Way out my price range though, im thinking more like £20 and copious cans of WD40.

WD40 ? (Wondering if I'm missing a trick here)

Thanks for the new thread Dizzy Ditzy. I'm sort of on track for this year but I just need to finish off composting some of the beds. One tunnel is fine and still producing the other is not so tidy so I need to get in there ASAP as I got 2 fan shaped apricot trees this Christmas and I want to do them proud.
I need to go through all my seeds and decide which ones to use, and which ones to throw away. I know it sounds wasteful but who needs 350 kale seeds on the front of every magazine I seem to buy, whereas there's only 35 seeds of sweetcorn in one packet - I need at least 3 packets - rant over

Kantankrus Mare Your dad will be on the allotment before you know it. Just don't let him overdo it to start off with and make sure he has a chair so he can rest. Chatting to the other allotmenteers could be just the tonic he needs. I had valve replacements and bipasses last yr, 11hrs in surgery. I came home on day 9 and was in the supermarket on day 10, on my kawasaki mule by day 14 and back driving the car at 6 weeks. I realised that the heart is so well protected by the ribs that the healing of the sternum is the most important thing to get right. I was so careful not to knock myself but apart from that I just got on with life and the joy of not being out of breath, being able to walk up hills, to not feel tired all the time is hard to articulate. Give him 6 months and he'll be like a spring chicken again.

Just starting to go dark so must go and give the chickens their corn.

spadoosh wrote: »

I was just thinking the bolts on a £20 greenhouse thats probably older than me are going to be difficult to remove.

Of course... (sometimes I'm too machiavellian for my own good)

unrecordings wrote: »

Let's see if I can keep up this year. Tumour came back last autumn so can barely type, never mind manipulate small seedlings, but things are improving incrementally. I Put the last of 2018's tomatoes in a chilli yesterday (well I 'supervised' the putting of the tomatoes in the chilli). Only lost about six after neglecting them for a month in storage. Got a whole heap of catalogues to go through from the usual suspects, and another heap to recycle. I also need to go through 2018's gardening magazines, scan the useful articles & drop the magazines off at the chemo ward next time I'm there

Sorry to hear the tumour is back unrecordings. You seem so positive, I really hope you beat it into submission and you can live your life as positively and actively as you wish. I know from previous posts you are very supportive, with experience and advice to share with us less experienced forumites. So even if it is at a distance from your garden/allotment, do try and keep posting here!

Suffolk_lass wrote: »

Sorry to hear the tumour is back unrecordings. You seem so positive, I really hope you beat it into submission and you can live your life as positively and actively as you wish. I know from previous posts you are very supportive, with experience and advice to share with us less experienced forumites. So even if it is at a distance from your garden/allotment, do try and keep posting here!

Thanks for the kind words - there's a certain bloodymindedness involved (either that or I'm too stupid to understand the danger I'm in)

Anyway, in October, before I lost the use of a hand, I got my onions, shallots & garlic in. Black Tuscany kale & Bedford Fillbasket sprouts are overwintering, Ive still got some carrots, some Oca (mainly just to keep it going - my crop is descended from two plants I bought about five years ago) I've also got some pretty ratty looking Tatsoi - and I've some Chinese Mahogany growing on a windowsill - not tried it yet but it's nearly ready for me to try a leaf. This year I might endeavour to add some photos too...

Safe gardening everyone