Sjoerd
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| Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 12:43 am Post subject: Ground-breaking Ceremony |
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Well, the weather was pretty good, so it was off to the lottie again.
Today we raked and mixed the compost and manure into the topsoil of the new garden plot, we planted the first spuds (Harlequin) and we started cleanoing a plot in the flower garden with attention to the soil lining the path, as it will be lined with some flowers this year.
Digging a furrow with a very handy tool
The end result of the tater trench. I planted the chitted spuds in the bottom of this after making holes with a tulip bulb planter.
Purple-sprouting broccoli (calabrezi). We are still harvesting.
This is the white form of the purple-sprouting calabrezi. You can see the damage done to the leaves by huge wood doves(pigeons). How this got into the bag of the purple sprouting seeds, I have no idea.
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eileen
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Gosh Sjoerd you are much further forward with your potatoes than we are. We're only just chitting our 'Pentland Javelins' now. So pleased you got some good weather for working on the lottie.
Wood pigeons do sooo much damage to veggies don't they? 
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Lucky you! Potatoes won't be planted for another two to four weeks around here, unless someone's feeling very brave and adventurous. I like your furrow tool.
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Biita
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Wow!! You are way ahead of me, I have just started my potatoes last week. Those won't get planted until almost june. or if the weather is bad not until June.
I have the same tool for furrows. but i do mine a little different, i guess because of weather and it could rain continuously here some months. I start out like you did but then i make a furrow right next to that to make a mound. Then i punch a hole in the mound and thats where i put my potato. it helps so the plant doesn't drown if need be. I have to do that with all my plants. but then some sommers its so dry,,,lol.
Nice work,, and lucky you,,still harvesting!
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Netty
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| Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 11:28 am Post subject: |
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That looks like a great tool Sjoerd. I'll have to keep my eyes open for one. It would be handy for the leeks as well.
It will still be another month or more before my potatoes get planted.
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Wrennie
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| Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 11:37 am Post subject: |
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I cant wait to plant my potatoes. Soon. I've just gotten my peas, lettuce and spinach seeds in the ground.
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SongofJoy57
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My Sjoerd, but you have some goodlooking dirt . . . it looks like our dirt up in the mountains here . . . and I dearly love potatoes . . . anyway they are fixed. I have never eaten purple broccoli, but it sure is pretty. 
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kaseylib
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Looks like some wonderful soil in your garden, and the broccoli looks great. I've always wanted to try the purple broccoli, and may this year.
I'm anxiously waiting for the first asparagus, which hopefully won't be too much longer here. Most everyone is done harvesting maple syrup, as the buds on the trees are starting to swell. All said it was a good year. Now let's bring on spring here...it's been a long winter!
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Sjoerd
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Thanks for your comments.
That tool is a good one alright. It's not mine, it belongs to the allotment complex and is ine of the many types of tools that we can borrow. I havce to say it works like a charm.
I appreciate your comments on the soil too, for I have worked very hard on getting it in shape since taking over this new lottie last year. It was well and truly a disaster area when I took it over. I mean, the lotty had been cleared by the previous renter as per the rules, but it had been so neglected that under the topsoil were all these pernicious weeds, and the soil had not been turned by him for two years so it was hard packed.
I have added quite a bit of my own compost and compost from the county govn't. as well as green and animal manure. It is looking pretty good to me, but we'll see how the crops produce in it.
Those calabreses were delicious and there are still some heads coming along. I quess that I shall be able to keep harvesting for another month or so.
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