Monday, May 03, 2010

You've blown it now Gerrard!

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You vindictive, rat-eating, cheating scouse tw*t! There's no way you're having the honour of having one of my pumpkins named after y...
Friday, April 30, 2010

Carrots are go

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In the words of Ron Jeremy you need a nice tight hole and moisture at all times. Following his expert advice I've achieved 100% germinat...
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

"Oh f*ck"

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You are the weakest link.....goodbye! (And good riddance!)
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Progress

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Most of my Sweet Candle stations have now germinated. These are the first parsnips 'Pinnacle' that came through and are therefore t...
Tuesday, April 27, 2010

First carrots through

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Photos to follow but my first Sweet Candle stump rooted carrots came through in the raised beds today, approximately two weeks after sowing....
Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Early days

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Still plenty of work needs to be done before April is out but things are starting to come together. I have plenty of onions from sets growin...
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Monday, April 19, 2010

My Prayer

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Dear Lord, I know that I haven't talked to you that much, but this past year you have taken away one of my favourite actors, Patrick Swa...
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Sunday, April 18, 2010

First carrot seeds sown

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A long day but I've got 32 out of my 48 carrot stations sown. I got 24 in the raised slab and wooden plank bed in the foreground and ano...
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Parsnip woes

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Today is long carrot seed sowing day. The drums are ready, the sun is out but I'll be in the garage all day sieving compost & prepar...
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Thursday, April 15, 2010

Update

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Finding enough time in April is about as difficult as finding a catholic priest who doesn't fiddle with choirboys. It is by far the busi...
Thursday, April 08, 2010

Monster man

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We had a fabulous talk tonight at our hort.soc. given by Clive Bevan, grower of giant veg. He's a real character and he told us some cra...
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Wednesday, April 07, 2010

Cheating German bastards!

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Bleeding typical. Those smelly krauts were diving around tonight like downed Messerschmitts and kicking Rooney on his bad ankle. It has not ...
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Thursday, April 01, 2010

A week off.....

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....so I've been catching up on the preparation of the plot and assessing where things are at. My first sowing of tomatoes Cedrico have ...
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Spud prep

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It's not yet time to be planting up your spud bags but you can be digging trenches, sieving your peat/compost and making sure you have p...
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Fertilisers

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I'm at risk of becoming Dave Thornton's groupie as I attended another lecture given by him on fertilisers on Monday night. It's ...