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Post by Tel on Jul 11, 2013 5:06:03 GMT
Congratulations on a well deserved award mate, Silver Medal next Derek.  |
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Post by markb on Jul 11, 2013 6:41:55 GMT
Congratulations, Derek.
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Post by paws57 on Jul 11, 2013 7:52:50 GMT
Congratulations Derek : )
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Post by Rosie on Jul 11, 2013 8:07:32 GMT
Goodness, well done Derek, what a lovely surprise to get. It shows all that you do is appreciated by people. |
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Post by SueA on Jul 11, 2013 20:26:38 GMT
Congratulations Derek, well done on the Fellowship!
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Post by derekbrooks on Jul 11, 2013 21:23:39 GMT
Thanks very much for all these congrats
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Post by derekbrooks on Jul 11, 2013 21:35:21 GMT
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Post by derekbrooks on Jul 11, 2013 21:41:19 GMT
This is the border alogside the visitor centre at Blackleach country park that I have been telling you about. It was supposed to be a wild flower border but I plant some of my spare plants in to fill gaps.You can see wild flowers in the picture but the antirrhinums and penstemons were some I put in last year and over wintered and are giving a good show.
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Post by Cherry on Jul 12, 2013 4:50:48 GMT
Congratulations on winning a prestigious award. We are very lucky to have you as a Garden Friend.
The boxes of onions and shallots look fantastic. They are all a lovely even size.
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Post by derekbrooks on Jul 12, 2013 21:32:06 GMT
Thanks, Cherry.
All I have done today is to carry on with the weeding this evening.
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Post by derekbrooks on Jul 13, 2013 22:19:28 GMT
This afternoon I went to the tip with another 10 sacks of weeds from the allotment. On the way there I called at church to plant a few spare bedding plants in the garden there. I then went to school to feed the tomatoes.
Went on the allotment again this evening. Weeded the onion bed again because I wanted to plant the fennel on it. It wasn't overgrown like some of the other beds so it didn't take long.Planted the fennel where the onions had been that I harvested the other day. After that I finished weeding the root crop bed which, a few days ago was really overgrown.
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Post by derekbrooks on Jul 14, 2013 22:39:35 GMT
As you probably know I sow brassicas in batches, a few at a time so that too many are not ready for harvesting at once. Approx half of the bed was planted from the first sowings and the next batch are ready for planting. However the rest of the bed was full of weeds so that has been my job for today. I got it finished but it took me most of the afternoon and evening.
Before I went I dressed the onions that I brought home yesterday and put them in the shed with the others.Today I brought home from the allotment two nice cauliflowers and another bucket of sweet peas.
Guess what I realised while I was sat dressing the onions. I told you that I had to go to Harrogate on Sept 13th to be presented with the N.V.S.fellowship. Well, it was exactly the same date (the day before my birthday) that I went to Harrogate and won the final of the Garden News Mastermind of gardening competition in 1984 .Isn't that a coincidence?
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Post by derekbrooks on Jul 15, 2013 22:01:23 GMT
Been at Blackleach country park all day but the only gardening I did was to plant 5 heucheras in the fish shaped bed.
Went on the allotment this evening and got the root crop bed ready for planting or sowing.Put growmore on and raked the soil as fine as I could. Also raked in a bag of old compost.Did some more weeding after.
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Post by derekbrooks on Jul 16, 2013 22:31:17 GMT
Had almost a full day and evening on the allotment.On the root crop bed which I got ready for planting yesterday ,I sowed a row of swedes and planted beetroot and kohl rabi.These had been started off in small Jiffy pots or Jiffy sevens. Staked and tied up the broad beans then spent rest of the time weeding. Brought home the first courgettes.
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Post by derekbrooks on Jul 17, 2013 22:12:50 GMT
Rosemary needed the car this morning so I did some jobs in the garden. Jobs at home have been neglected a bit recently because of all the weeding on the allotment.Got rid of some weeds down the back path. Some plants in the greenhouse needed potting on but it was so warm in there that I put them under the car port and did them there. The car port is shaded in the day time as it is on the North side of the house. Potted 8 coleus and 4 begonias from 5 inch to 7 inch pots and 2 tomatoes into 9 inch.
In the afternoon I went to the tip with another 10 sacks of weeds from the allotment. Harvested the Blue Belle potatoes I had grown to put on the veg stand at Tatton Park . I had started some off in bags in the polytunnel at school and some in buckets on the allotment. Carried on with the weeding after.Even the annual beds that I had weeded and planted only 3 weeks ago have hundreds of tiny weeds coming up again and also the paths between the beds. I treated these with weedol to get rid of them before they get any bigger. There is a picture of these beds in Garden News this week.
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