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EADD Gardening Club: Ploughing FUBAR's infertile Fields

Nothing like a dead body to liven up your compost. Theres a couple of doctors receptionists I know that would look better as cadavers.. they'll do.

Actually Poppies are often connected to Vampires in folklore. According to Transalvanians if you suspect a grave or tomb has a vampire in it you should scatter poppy seeds about. Vamps are apparently OCD and feel compelled to pick the seeds up. By the time they've finished the sun comes up and they have to return to their graves hungry.
 
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Some of my veg in progress.

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Do not fucking laugh at my carrot :p it's the first pulled as are the beetroots, just wanted to see how they were coming along. They'll be a while yet... Peas and broad beans are flowering like mad and I have now killed 3 courgette plants, bloody give up with them now...
 
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Some of my veg in progress.

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Kate they look fantastic! I wouldn't dream of laughing at your carrotini. You must be really be keeping on top of the tending. I've still got some red onion sets I bought really late, apparently they're one of the few veg that can't 'catch up', something to do with day length, but can be planted as scallions. I wasn't going to bother but seeing yours I think I will.
 
Lovely veg kate <3 Dan will be slaverring over this photo lol.

Carrot is short but fat, I gave up trying to grow carrots, ground too stoney, don't think I've ever pulled a carrot as good as yours even :)

The chard though, just pick the outer leaves, not the whole plant, they just keep on and on pushing up new leaves, ours go right through into the winter, before bolting in spring, chard just keeps on giving :D

Need to get down my plot, not been down for 10 days or so, the weeds will be loving this rain, but should have broad beans and peas to harvest, along with maybe first few beetroots (of which I promised the finest first bunch of baby beets to Dan),, plenty of wild rocket, lollo rosso, and rainbow chard coming on now as well...

Will take a snap when I have a wee harvest, doubt it''ll be as artfully arranged as yours kate, but there should be a couple of laughable specimens in there =D
 
^ could you build a raised bed just for the carrots MM? He's right about the chard Kate, I didn't notice you had pulled them up roots and all :) Most lettuce will regenerate as well.

Just popping in to say Morissons is the place for plants. They're small but good quality and really cheap. Our local one is really small but they had annuals, perennials, climbers, fruit trees, ornamental trees, the lot. £5 for a damson tree, £5 for two clematis/honeysuckle/jasmine, £1.20 for a heather etc.

And Lidl is the place for compost :)
 
Got a shitload :D of really rotted manure coming tomorrow from a friend with horses, I know cow manure is meant to be better, but she says this stuff is full of worms, been rotting for well over 6 months.

I'm gonna dig over one of her beds in return.

Raised bed. Not a bad idea that bandw, but cos we've turned about half of our allotment into "leisure area", lawn for the kids, decking for booze and drugs...I think we just gonna stick with what we doing....MIGHT grow some carrots in drainpipe, see if we can get some superlong specimens...

Thanks, you got me thinking about growing carots again, also raising up on a drainpipe ,it keeps off carrot fly I think?
 
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My carrots grew up! %) been eating them for a few weeks now, they're so sweet.

Been totally overwhelmed by my veg garden recently, there's a glut of cabbages, peas, beetroot especially. I've been blanching and freezing some and have pickled others, like the beetroot (don't thank me Dan just send me money in the post ;)

Disappointed by my broad beans, just getting a few now and there's no sign of runner or french beans at all - is that normal? I dont think the soil has had the right nourishment in it.

What should I be looking to put in for the autumn / winter - suggestions in a post please :)
 
If you're very lucky I may have to tell you about my radishes :D

Size a' dugs baws =D
 
Bump Bump Bump.

I'll get some pics of my garden up in the week, I like the way it looks in the autumn and winter, we have lots of hardy shrubs and have just cleared and tidied before the bad weather sets in, including attacking next doors ivy monster with my trusty chain saw:)

Below pic of my beloved garage that needs a dam good tidy, spot the gaskets;)

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Nice pics thanks! :) I know a few blokes who'd feel very at home in there.

Biscuit tins and chocolate tins in garages like that never fail to disappoint in terms of contents :)

I have photo posting exhaustion for now (aka stoned) but will put some up soon now we've found the thread thanks to MM.
 
mmmm, I've had a bit of a clear out of my stores in there of late so contents of random tins is a little less interesting;)

I really need to get it tidy so i can get some stuff done in there, the kids love to help in mechanical bits and bobs so it needs to be sorted, I laid down the gauntlet I shall post pics over the next couple of weeks so you can compare and contrast.
 
Looks good atm, a few too many manly tools in there for my liking, I have a combi drill, a socket set, and the only other tools are gardening tools....

I might try and get some pictures of our homemade woodburner/cold smoker, we call it The Kelvinator, cos that's the brand name of the old fridge we've used for the smoking chamber....
 
^^ interesting mm, my flat is terribly insulated and so cold in the winter as to be miserable and depressing. i couldnt afford standing charge on gas meter so had it removed and thanks to npowers constant penchant for increasing electric prices i had given some thought to a wood/solid fuel burner for heating the home, but was told the net gains would likely be negligible. allowing for the fact its homemade, do you believe it to be a viable alternative to electric in terms of heating?



and to keep it OT, has anyone else noticed the havoc the weather has wreaked on the plants this year? i believe the quasi-drought (lol remember that) was largely to blame, as our astilbe, hydrangeas, gladioli among many others failed to flower, and red-leafed cherry trees seem to have suffered badly fairly ubiquitously. many of these were only recently recovering from the two severe winters we just had (that killed off many old and established palms&false palms locally) i fear for these weakened plants if we get hit again.
 
Oh I didnt twig what you meant when you said you had made a woodburner the other day MM. You put the wood in the fridge? lol Thats so clever ! I was admiring the guttering attached to the water butt as well. I'll try to take a pic of my shed, I havn't painted it yet its still just a normal shed with a couple of windars so I wont be shed dicksizing yet.

Ed: No it hasn't been the best of years for my garden either BlindHelperMonkey what with the slugs and the weather. I think I got about 3 apples on my tree.
 
^ lol YPDH he made a cold smoker from the fridge, not the woodburner. He uses ducting to channel the smoke from the burner to the old fridge where he hangs what ever he wants to smoke. Although I may be wrong and he has made a woodburner out of a fridge, just opens the door for a blast of heat =D

I had 3 apples on one tree and 2 pears on the other. Yellow raspberries still fruiting away happily which is odd.
 
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