Maria
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Share your gardening joys - MayI'm overjoyed - went away for 3 days - and all the lil' seedlings in the poly are still alive. OH remembered to water them so I have a heap of herbs, volumes of veg, and a few flowers.....all very much alive! Most pleased with the globe artichoke and aubergine seedlings. Tatties are sprouting up from their bags. The ones inside doing so much better than the bag I left outside. Hungry just thinking about new tatties. 
The new leaves are on the beech hedges...they look so vivid. And talking garden...OH bought a push along mower thingymibob while I was away. I've yet to have a go but he says it's great exercise. 
The poly is bursting with life. Pics to follow soon. I keep cramming more and more things in there. And oh joy of joys....it's about time I started putting things outside. Anyone got any horrible frost predictions before I do.  
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Julie
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I normally just do the menial tasks in the garden, weeding, mowing, strimming, fruit & veg picking etc. The boss decides what goes in where and if at all.  and I do as I'm told 
This year however, as Gordon was away in Aberdeen for a fortnight, I had to plant out the onion and carrot beds and so they have become my responsibility this year. I'm watching their progress with more interest as a result and finding I remember which variety is planted where without having to be constantly reminded. 
The boss even made me a teeny baby hoe for delicately going between the onions and getting right up to the carrots.
It mystifies me why it is that they grow twice as much with a rain shower as they do with a watering? They seem to know the difference.
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andybebbington
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At work all the 300,000 plants are potted up wopeeeeeee at and all 12 tunnels are full, just a case of watering and poss pinching off buds untill they go out to the depots 1st week of june and they will be adding colour to every village bed basket box and roundabout in the shire
At home the greenhouse is bursting to the brim the courgettes are ready to harden of for planting out toms are coming on great and theres an abundance of lettuce, meg the spinger had a ddance on my raised beds so all the seeds are mixed up in the carrot onion and beet bed and the raddish have been thrown about so have lost a load of them - cover going on to stop her doing it again - that and stop the bloody neighbourhood cat digging. the gardens looking good trees are full of blossom and climbers have started to flower this weekend, grass needs cutting AGAIN - tommorow night job weather permittin
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Julie
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Every time I see a flowering bed I will think of you now and wonder if you set those seeds.
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pete_inthehills
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I've learnt an important lesson. When labeling seeds, don't use a water soluble pen to write the labels. I have half a tray of cucumber seedlings and half a tray of giant pumpkin...but which is which?
the labels are blank...
anyone know the difference between the two at seedling size?
pete
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wildgarlic
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once the leaves come through you should be able to tell quite easily - I think. Our cucumber had a more pointed leaf and the pumpkin had rounder edges.
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Maria
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| Quote: | OH bought a push along mower thingymibob while I was away. I've yet to have a go but he says it's great exercise.
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It's fab - and the best news, because it's a novelty around here...I've not cut the grass yet....Carrot Lover did it tonight. 
Pete's cucumber/pumpin mix - I'd say the same as WG from looking at mine. I've done the same thing with the chilli/peppers...anyone know one from the other? I've sent SH home with a selection of....ermm....who knows?
My little one helped me in the garden this afternoon. We're making an apothecary garden (thanks to Lord Azreal)....so she learnt something about herbal health today - twas brill. Not sure I did very well teaching her though....she decided that we needed sunflowers, nasturtuims, peas, lavender and forget-me-nots in there. Mmm not sure where the herbs are going to go now?
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dizzyblond
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Our Gardening Joy - is that we now have one instead of two massive piles of earth!!!!!
Garden is now on two levels using some old railway sleepers that were going to be binned. Just need the turf and Voila!!!!!
The sense of achievement is amazing!!
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JamesB
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raised bedthe raised bed we made with left over concrete blocks is working well. Its so easy to week since the soil is so loose and the radishes are ready to eat and the lettuces not far off. Beans have been in flower for several weeks now and the peas and getting going nicely.
James
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Maria
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Had salads from the garden today for visitors. Got radish, lettuce, spring onion and spicy leaves...yum. Looking forward to the pea's now...they're really coming on.
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Forget-me-Not
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GardeningBuilt a new strawberry bed and sorted others with eldest and then she planted sunflowers all over the place, more planned tomorrow. Great afternoon with her out there.
Beth
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Smooth Hound
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I've sent SH home with a selection of....ermm....who knows?
itll be a surprise
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Ina
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I helped my friend M. with some serious weeding today - and dug up all sorts of surprises: loads of left over carrots - most of which were still OK! Leek - lightly bolted, but they'll do me fine (she doesn't like leek, only grows it for her friends!). Three strawberry plants, which I only took off her hands because they'd have gone in the bin otherwise - she has too many. Some flowers which I can't remember the name of. Plus she gave me a wonderful honeysuckle plant, and bought a lovage for me, because she happened to see one and knew I wanted one.
So now I have to go and find room for all that...
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angiecadie
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I was having such fun in the garden today, cutting grass, weeding, raking, digging, sowing, repotting that I got extremely fried by the sun!!! and now feel like crap :-( Hopefully ok for the fun day tomorrow in Huntly woo hoo!
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Ina
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| angiecadie wrote: | | I was having such fun in the garden today, cutting grass |
If you consider cutting grass fun - come along and have more fun in my garden! 
That's the one thing I really hate - mowing the lawn. 
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Smooth Hound
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its good when its done though, i dont mind mowing, as long as the mower works properly, and i havent got to keep moving things around the garden
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Julie
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Grazing on warm strawberries in the polytunnel - not just me either, it seems to be universally popular 
Leaping in and out of bed in the night to check for lambing ewes in my PJs. Not strictly gardening, but it's part of our holistic system.
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