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Allotmenting Delight!

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  Posted by feelin_blue (U1930180) on Tuesday, 29th March 2011

  
  Hi Guys,
  
  A couple of rather lovely things have given me a real sense of delight this week, and I thought I would share them with you all!
  
  Firstly was the flower on my plum tree, the first one from a bare rooted tree I planted just over a year ago! It was so pretty, and now I have lots more flowers on the tree, and also on the pear tree alongside it! Wonderful!
  
  Secondly was the sight of the seedlings I had planted in my greenhouse which almost seem to be appearing as I watch them (perhaps I HAVE been spending too much time watching them!!)
  
  I wonder what else has been delighting you fellow allotmenteers this week?
  
  Please tell!
  
  
  

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  Posted by elderman4 (U10843761) on Tuesday, 29th March 2011

  This is the same feeling I get every year - and this is what 'fires me up' too!!!!!
  
  Good luck with the plums and seedlings!!!!!

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  Posted by feelin_blue (U1930180) on Tuesday, 29th March 2011

  Hi elderman4
  
  Yes me too!
  
  Its so much hard work this time of year with so much to do, that it is nice sometimes to just stop and admire, isn't it!
  
  Thanks, good luck to you too.
  
  Anyone else?
  
  

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  Posted by zoomer44 (U14019069) on Tuesday, 29th March 2011

  I'm not an allotmenteer but I've grown a few summer bulbs and flowers for the first time this year and am really pleased with my lillies, some are in the GH and some planted outdoors in pots all doing fab and I've three alliums which are looking good in the GH with leaves 10 inch high now, don't know when to put them outdoors though and goodness knows how big they'll get.
  
  I sowed some cornflowers in October and they are now in troughs, thought I was doing well with them too till I read somewhere they are considered weeds So on that note I'm delighted I can successfully grow weeds
  
  I'm growing flowers to cut but also going to put them around the veg beds in pots to attract good and bad pests, me thinks this might keep pests off the veg

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  Posted by feelin_blue (U1930180) on Tuesday, 29th March 2011

  Hi zoomer44
  
  I grew marigolds amongst some of my veg last year as a companion plant, but not sure what differnce it made! Still they did look pretty!
  
  I have tried growing some flower seeds in the g/h this year with varying success, good lot of bergamot and verbena which I have grown for the bees, although I don't think the bees will be able to wait long enough!!
  
  I had one dahlia and one cosmos from seed, so not much joy there!
  
  The lillies sound lovely! And I love cornflowers! How can they be weeds?! Incidently aren't they bee-friendly too?!
  
  Thanks for the mental pictures of all those flowers! Good luck.
  
  
  
  

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  Posted by nanpickle (U14258493) on Wednesday, 30th March 2011

  I was pleased by 2 things this week - at the weekend a lovely neighbour gave me a cold frame as she now has a greenhouse and didn't want it (I have a gh, 2 mini plastic gh's as well). This morning I finished emptying out one of my dalek composters on to the garden. Have turned half the second one into the empty one so am feeling very virtuous. Nan x

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  Posted by feelin_blue (U1930180) on Wednesday, 30th March 2011

  Hi Nan,
  
  That was nice of your neighbour, wasn't it! We have a nice neighbour who gave us a greenhouse, which is now on the plot and is very useful! Its full of seeds on the shelves and on the floor! And I tried to cut down this year after being inundated with seedlings last year!
  
  Well done with the work though! It's those senses of achievement that make the work so worthwhile, isn't it!
  
  Best wishes,
  
  

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  Posted by Niblet (U14438752) on Thursday, 31st March 2011

  Well it's not exactly good news but it is pretty amazing; I sowed some Marmande toms at the weekend as the heated prop was vacant for a bit, and yesterday when I checked on them in the space of <18hrs since Tue they'd gone from no visible cotyledons to 3 flipping inches tall and falling over!! So I have to start again. At least I know I've got some eager little seeds.

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  Posted by Bluedoyenne (U2341157) on Thursday, 31st March 2011

  feelin_blue, I've not got an allotment, but I share your pleasure at the first signs of what is to come.
  As an experiment, I dug a trench and planted 10 asparagus crowns at the back of a flower border in (very) late Spring last year and Saturday I was thrilled to see two, thick fat spears had burst through the earth!

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  Posted by jamie01 (U14066574) on Thursday, 31st March 2011

  Feelin_blue,
  
  I'm very happy that we might be in for a summer which doesn't start in September and end in October. I've already seen (and felt) more sun this month than I saw for most of last summer.

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  Posted by feelin_blue (U1930180) on Thursday, 31st March 2011

  
  Hi Guys,
  
  Niblet, your tomato seeds are doing better than mine! I have 3 varieties and the seedlings are coming through but very small. Yours sound like they are jet-propelled! Do you have to scrap them? I have a relative in the US who buries the bottom 1/3rd of the plants anyway! Seems like usual practice over there, although it isn't something I have heard people say over here!
  
  Bluedoyenne - oooh asparagus! Love to grow that, but no room at the moment! Do you cut the spears this year, or do you have to leave them?
  
  Jamie, yes the weather has been lovely, but it was cold when I went to the plot to water the greenhouse stuff today. Like you I hope for a nice summer, although I seem to remember May/June being the best months last year with not much after that!
  
  Best wishes all
  
  
  
  

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  Posted by Bluedoyenne (U2341157) on Friday, 1st April 2011

  There was no information on the age of the crowns nor even the variety when I purchased them but having seen other crowns on sale this year, it's possible mine could be 3 year old crowns. In which case, I may have enough spears to be able to cut a few of them this year. I do hope so

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