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EADD Gardening Club: Ploughing FUBAR's infertile Fields

Mailmonkey said:
i think too early for the french beans kate.
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They've been out there for 3 weeks! and now some die - ok I was chancing my luck and will have to re-seed.

Lesson 1 of 2012 learnt :\

Marmz I have a dry stane dyke walled job - it's part of the boundary wall and been here for some while by the looks of it. It's all a bit messy round that part of the garden, but that's fine, it suits the place.





Knocknaconker - you're a tree-killer :p
 
knockando said:
I've got one of them! Haven't gone near it for.. oh, six years? :|
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I can quite believe it. you've obviously been too busy with murdering n chopping down trees, you shameless monster ;p

@ kate. yeah, I don't mind the mess so much either, and prefer a wildlife focused garden really but my dad's garden isn't that big and it's square n everything can be seen really easy. no established planting either, since my parents are mainly of the 'stick a fence up and turf the lot' kind, just because it's easier to manage
 
Thanks MM :) There's a story to that soil, I used to rent this garden but turned my back on it for a year. In my absence this poor old boy with Alzheimers who lives a few doors up started letting himself in and sieved that entire plot by hand 8o I'm worried that the complete absence of stones is gonna affect drainage but we'll see. I can send him down to you if you like, he's the same one who dug up my established asparagus cos he thought it was weeds so he's a bit of a liability.

Kate, you could make some mini cloches out of plastic bottles to protect what's left, and then get a staggered crop :)

Do you have to buy pallets Marmalade? There must be a way to get some for free. I got some from a tile outlet. A girl with your charms shouldn't have a problem :)
 
badandwicked said:
Thanks MM :) There's a story to that soil, I used to rent this garden but turned my back on it for a year. In my absence this poor old boy with Alzheimers who lives a few doors up started letting himself in and sieved that entire plot by hand 8o I'm worried that the complete absence of stones is gonna affect drainage but we'll see.
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fucking hell! I thought it looked good :o

every year i rake more and more flint, limestone whatever out of our plot, constantly turning up stones, i dream of soil like yours <3

drainage should be okay as long as not too clay, and doesn't look clayey...looks lovely loamy goodness, no wonder you have success with carrots.
 
kate said:
Knocknaconker - you're a tree-killer :p
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Marmalade said:
I can quite believe it. you've obviously been too busy with murdering n chopping down trees, you shameless monster ;p
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I knew I'd end up with a bad reputation. If it was up to me I'd have a wilderness garden with birches, oaks and ashes, thrushes and tits, frogs and butterflies, but my neighbours want their phone lines.

My next door neighbour actually asked me last year to remove all the dandelions from my lawn in case they crossed over to his! (I chuckled)... He also cut down one of my downstairs neighbour's trees without even talking about it, because he'd decided it was too big. Yes he's a prick, I'm pretty sure he's the one who called the cops when I did my defenestration.
 
Last year my front garden was responsible for seeding billions of dandelions in every garden in the row, I walk by and admire my handiwork from time to time. They're looking particularly lush this year, more dandelions than grass =D happily I no longer live there but its nice to know I've left a legacy. The neighbour was a cock, used to walk through my garden as if it was his and even cut the grass without asking once cheeky fuck. Crappy ash seedlings are a pain in the arse knock, no great loss but if you didn't kill the stumps they'll be back.
 
Not sure if this belongs here or in the snoo thread but after a bit of rummaging I found out the asparagus survived against all the odds. Nature is tenacious. time to get my weed on i think... amazing how these little things can bring so much happiness, this has made my day.

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badandwicked said:
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Oooerrr missus, that's quite PHALLIC! 8o=D8o

Snoo indeed, you lucky gardener.

My swiss chard has rallied round, though my beetroot is still quite pathetic and weedy. Absolutely bucketing it down today which isn't so kind on fragile young plants.
 
kate said:
Oooerrr missus, that's quite PHALLIC! 8o=D8o
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you beat me to it godamnedjoo!

I saw that pic when I was gardening at me ma's this afternoon and the only thing that popped into my head wuz 'penis'. didn't ave time to comment and my fingers were soil encrusted.
 
nice 'sparagus! :)

I'm gonna sneak down to my old plot (now an overgrown "garden") at the house we left 5 years ago, and see if any are popping up...i think i checked a couple of years ago, and couldn't see any sign of it, but you never know....

Might get some crowns in for our plot now, is this sort of time you plant them iirc innit? Was such a pisser last time planting them, tending them for 3 years, then moving house just as the first year of proper harvesting could happen, I've been a bit tentative....but i think i need to get over that, time to move on, haha... :D 8(
 
My swiss chard is coming on fine now, however my beetroot's are pish (technical term that). I have it in sandyish soil but I fed it well beforehand, but they're not thriving at all. Any ideas? should I closh them, though have bloody loads.

My courgettes kicked the bucket - year 2 of courgette failure. Will give it one more go and then I give up.

Managing to eat salad leaves practically every day now, there's so many and I have already got another 2 lots on the go at different stages. Think I've gone a bit ott with the lettuces lol
 
As the Gardening thread got such a timely bump I'll regale y'all with tales of me chili plant. Quite a short tale so don't be a-fretted... The advice from b&w and others to lay off the watering appears to have more or less sorted me fungal fuckery. Still a few patches on the compost but less than there were and the plant is looking much perkier - kinda stiffer-looking. Erect. Although less erect than b&w's asparagus.

Also have coriander and salad leaves growing on me sill now. Can see how folks get addicted to growing stuff. Am now eyeing up me living room windowsill as a prime plant spot but no idea what yet. Summat that grows quite big and jungly so it's less like living in a fishbowl ideally.
 
Pleased to hear the chilli has picked up. Get parsley on the go, the more you cut it the more it grows, its mental as is mint.

What about an indoor fig - they grow like mad though you need to keep repotting them up every year. Have 2 3-4 foot ones that started off a few years back as tidlers.

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If you can get some bigger pots and some cheap compost to pot things up they'll grow quicker and give you more munchin' - watch out for pot bound roots coming out of the holes in the bottom - time for a move then.

Know anything about beetroot?
 
I know I like pickled beetroot and the occasional bit o' borscht, Kate. Other than that I know little of beetroot. Me grandad was very fond of it and a keen gardener though. Wouldn't leap to mind as a windowsill candidate but presume I am about to be enlightened ;)

Fig sounds quite appealing actually. Stuff that both grows and produces yummy things is surely and all-round win. Sounds like a candidate to me. Thanks for the tip :)

Mint and parsley do indeed grow like fuck (MamaShambles has a mint plant that borders on a tree) but am not a massive fan of parsley and can't see me using much mint either. Big bushy things in the window are rather appealing in general though due to the overlooking thing so maybe. Basil is probably next cos I like it and would use it. And chives.
 
beetroot is easy kate, i dunno what to suggest as it's one of the few things I've never ha da problem growing...

slugs, chickens, ducks are our worst prob with beetroots, but they seem very tolerant of all soils, as long as it doesn't get too dry.

had to put blood fish and bone down yesterday, broad beans showing nute defs already, was hoping all the green manuring etc should have been enough. Haven't checked pH in that bed yet, could have got too acidic, nute lockout or something...again, we don't usually have probs with broadies, except blackfly.
 
i need to get my sexy MXE wonk on and plant some beetroot, broccoli kale, whilst blasting some beats. MXE gardening, i bet it'd be a right old job. could start a youtube series up of that shit
 
ColtDan said:
i need to get my sexy MXE wonk on and plant some beetroot, broccoli kale, whilst blasting some beats. MXE gardening, i bet it'd be a right old job. could start a youtube series up of that shit
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Can't say I've seen you in here before Dan %) delighted to have you in the Club! You too can grow these mxe worthy globes of purple goodness =D

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I have a glut of lettuces already - £1.50 a kilo any takers?
 
I've just bought a chainsaw to annihilate the remains of my trees! Sawing by hand was just taking too long, and I was pleasantly surprised by the prices. I thought I'd be paying around £250 minimum but B&Q had one for £100 and another for £130. I went for the more expensive one for no real reason other than maybe it's better.

Any tips? Last time I used a chainsaw was 1990 and I think I was still drunk from the night before so I can't remember much.

The trees are no longer in the ground so I suppose I'll need to fashion some kind of support for them rather than just hacking at the pile like a lunatic.

Do I just fill it up with unleaded at the local Jet garage?
 
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yeah but you need to add 2 stroke oil i think, dunno the ratio. might be wrong tho
 
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