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Hi folks. Hasn't everyone been busy! I've not been on in a bit - been busy in the evenings and work have now banned all forums so I can't post from there at all. I'll read back in a bit but wanted to say hello for now. We're eating potatoes, broad beans, mangetout, turnips, lettuce, courgette and the first tomatoes are ripe today. Peter Pepper is very impressive with lots of chillis but none of them seem to be the distinctive shape I was expecting! I'll take a few pics and
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Hi folks, hope your weekends went ok. We had rotten weather again and I was at the funeral of a school friend's 9 year old little boy on Saturday so it has been utterly miserable. He was a special needs child, had some sort of chromosome disorder, and just didn't wake up last Wednesday morning. Anyway, I didn't get much done in the garden except for watering in the greenhouse. The grass badly needs cutting but was way too wet and I need to earth up the maincrop potatoes that are in bags
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Hi everyone. It's drier this morning here but it looks like rain won't be far away in the next few days or so. The wind has done some minor damage too. One of my broad beans had snapped off at the base when I got home yesterday. I've increased the staking a bit but think I might need to pinch them out to stop them growing any taller. In previous years I had to pinch out to deal with black fly so they never got much above 3 feet or so. This year there's no sign of any black fly and
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Miranda there are 2 varieties - Sutton and Witkiem. I sowed them last Autumn - the Sutton seeds were 3 years old and the Witkiem 2 so I didn't expect much more than green manure to be honest. Amazingly they're fabulous - they were covered in flowers and I have oodles of pods so pollination must have been fine! Of course you did exactly the right thing with that awful customer from a "keeping your job" perspective but I hope some day someone told her what for! Look forward to seeing
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For good compost you need a mix of brown and green. For example, grass cuttings are green but need something brown - paper (any colour shredded), garden shreddings, straw etc. - mixed with them so they don't just turn into smelly slime.
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Good morning everyone. What a very sad story digger - I hope that poor Bruno recovers fully and that the owner is suitably punished. The problem is I don't imagine she will have the money to pay for all the expense - drug users tend not to have savings - so it will be the taxpayer who foots the bill. I also read the story about the fawn Roundelder and it is indeed horrific to think that anyone could be so deliberately cruel. You can only hope these people never have care of an animal or indeed
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Silver surfer - I can't see some pictures on Internet Explorer but can on Firefox. No idea why. Could that be why you can't see them?
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Hi everyone. Digger, I was away all weekend at a school reunion. It was very good but of course we stayed up too late and drank too much wine so yesterday I was extremely poorly indeed! What pretty mice - those enormous eyes are lovely. The loo looks stunning Miranda - almost too pretty to be a loo. Percy is gorgeous Susiq but I'm sure he's keeping you on your toes. What luck having a mechanic for a brother Sue1002 - none of my 4 brothers are remotely practical. It's us girls who can
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Harvest every second one so you leave room for the others to grow a bit. They're best eaten small though as they can get woody if you let them grow too big.
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Sorry everyone. It's only been a few days digger, I think! But thanks for worrying, you are very sweet. Now you just need Susiq to check in and the team is accounted for! I'm just really busy at the minute - mainly because I have a school reunion coming up this weekend and the phone is constantly on the go with people getting in touch. I was halfway through cutting the lawn last night when my son brought me out the phone and an hour later at 9.45 I got back to the lawnmower. Then I had another
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