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Post by derekbrooks on May 30, 2013 22:04:03 GMT
Been on the allotment afternoon and evening. Planted the remaining 10 runner beans. Gave another plot holder 20 runner beans that I had grown for him and showed him how to put the cane structure up.
Spent the rest of the time getting the dahlia beds ready for planting. I have the main dahlia bed which holds 90 plants and a smaller one which holds 24.On the smaller bed I just grow collarettes (Don Hill ),waterlilies(Taratahi Ruby), and singles(Teesebrook red eye ),8 of each. All the other types are grown on the main bed. I had weeded the smaller bed before but it took me the rest of the afternoon and part of this evening to weed the main bed. Then I put fish, blood and bone on both beds and raked and hoed them. I then started putting the canes up but didn't have time to finish them.
I have several things ready for planting as well as the dahlias but every time I want to plant anything I have weeding to do which is time consuming.
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Post by derekbrooks on May 31, 2013 22:07:34 GMT
15 New guinea impatiens arrived fro Dobies . Potted them into three and a half inch pots.
Went to the garden centre for some basket plants and also some herbs for the herb wheel at Blackleach country park.
This afternoon I put all my dahlias on the lawn and sorted them out deciding which I am growing. I have plenty that I don't need but I am having a plant stall at church in two weeks so I can sell them there.
Started planting them on the allotment this evening but only time to plant about 40
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Post by derekbrooks on Jun 1, 2013 22:23:03 GMT
I told you that I went to our daughter Heather's in Wales Monday and Tuesday but Rosemary stayed till yesterday.Heather brought her home last night and she is staying here till tomorrow. This afternoon we have planted two hanging baskets for her.She wanted to watch me do them.They went shopping after so I went on the allotment and continued planting the dahlias. Heather came on the allotment with me this evening and did some weeding while I finished the dahlias. She weeded practically all the brassica bed . She did a good job . I could do with her coming every weekend  :)There are 114 dahlias planted on the allotment. I have just kept 10 for planting at home. |
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Post by derekbrooks on Jun 3, 2013 21:47:48 GMT
Heather went back home to Wales last night
I have been doing hanging baskets most of the day today. I have done eight for my friend Alan accross the road. I have twelve to do for myself and didn't get time to do them all. I had first to empty those that had winter and spring plants in . I potted up plants that I thought would keep till autumn
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Post by derekbrooks on Jun 5, 2013 22:03:31 GMT
Today I have finished planting my hanging baskets and hung them up.
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Post by derekbrooks on Jun 5, 2013 22:15:48 GMT
Yesterday I typed my diary on the forum but was not able to post it . It said there was an a error so I will try again.I told you last week that I had got some more herbs for the herb wheel at Blackleach country park. I planted them yesterday morning
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Post by derekbrooks on Jun 5, 2013 22:29:05 GMT
I hadn't finished what I wanted to say about what I did yesterday but I don't know how to amend the post. Some sections of the herb wheel were already full , some part full and some empty . I put in some parsley I had grown from seed and some rue grown from cuttings but all the rest were from the garden centre. In the afternoon I carried on with my hanging baskets and in the evening I went to the veg meeting at which the speaker was talking about fruit.
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Post by derekbrooks on Jun 6, 2013 22:26:47 GMT
Did some planting in my front garden this afternoon. Rosemary came on the allotment with me this evening and tied the dahlia labels onto the canes. I finished weeding the brassica bed that Heather had been doing last week and got it ready for planting,
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Post by derekbrooks on Jun 7, 2013 22:13:35 GMT
This morning I went to the house of an elderly couple as I do every year and planted up some containers for them in their back garden.
This afternoon I have finished planting my front garden
This evening I went on the allotment.Put fish blood and bone on the brassica bed and raked and hoed it. Then planted my Christmas dinner (sprouts).Also planted some marrows and courgettes on another bed.
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Post by derekbrooks on Jun 8, 2013 22:12:52 GMT
This afternoon I started getting the tubs ready for planting. Removed the plants that were in them and potted up some that I want to keep .
Went on the allotment this evening and planted some caqbbages and cauliflowers. The bed is only half full because I sow these crops in rotation as I don't want 20 cauliflowers all ready at once.
I always cover this bed with netting supported on a structure of canes to keep the cabbage white butterflies off. I fixed up the canes but didn't get time to sort the nets out and put them on before it went dark.I can't go at all tomorrow so next time I go I wll have to examine the plants for butterflies eggs before I put the nets on.
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Post by derekbrooks on Jun 10, 2013 21:33:41 GMT
Went to the allotment first to put the nets over the brassica bed which I didn't get time to do on Saturday. I examined the plants first and I did find a cluster of eggs of a large white butterfly(large whites lay in clusters but small whites lay their eggs singly).
Spent the rest of the morning and afternoon doing 18 more hanging baskets, for 4 people. Didn't finish them because I had to go out this evening.
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Post by derekbrooks on Jun 11, 2013 22:14:30 GMT
Planted some calendulas on the border at Blackleach this morning
Part of the afternoon and evening doing the hanging baskets but couldn't finish them because I ran short of plants.Will have to go to the garden centre for more tomorrow.
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Post by derekbrooks on Jun 12, 2013 22:13:42 GMT
This morning I went to my son's house and planted his garden.
This afternoon I went to the garden centre for some more basket plants and finished the baskets I was doing yesterday.
I have just returned home from Whiston on Merseyside where I have been the question master in the inter D.A. quiz between three sections of the National Vegetable Society
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Post by derekbrooks on Jun 12, 2013 22:17:08 GMT
There were three teams in the Quiz-Cheshire, Merseyside and Manchester and Cheshire were the winners with Merseyside second
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Post by derekbrooks on Jun 14, 2013 22:00:05 GMT
Yesterday I planted all mt tubs and other containers (13 of them) and 6 for soebody else
Been at Blackleach all day today and planted some calendulas,nicotianas and rudbeckias on the side border. Had to do some weeding first.
This evening I delivered the 6 tubs I planted yesterday for a friend.Then planted some more plants in the garden and also 4 planting pouches.
Tomorrow I am out all day till late in the evening so I wont have time to go on my computer at all.
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