2024 - What I did today
JJB Offline
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Gave away about 10 tomato plants. Arm pitted those moving out and those remaining. Got damp in the rain.
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Tried without success to rescue plants that got thrown about when the sales barrow got blown over last night. I couldn’t reach all of them. No point standing it up again until the wind calms down. Did rescue all the crochet bits and wash them. I’ll make a decision on if they’re still any good when they’ve dried.
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(23-05-2024, 07:53 PM)Small chilli Wrote: Tried without success to rescue plants that got thrown about when the sales barrow got blown over last night. I couldn’t reach all of them. No point standing it up again until the wind calms down. Did rescue all the crochet bits and wash them. I’ll make a decision on if they’re still any good when they’ve dried.
Might need guy ropes or pegging down some way methinks? Huh
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(23-05-2024, 08:03 PM)Vinny Wrote:
(23-05-2024, 07:53 PM)Small chilli Wrote: Tried without success to rescue plants that got thrown about when the sales barrow got blown over last night. I couldn’t reach all of them. No point standing it up again until the wind calms down. Did rescue all the crochet bits and wash them. I’ll make a decision on if they’re still any good when they’ve dried.
Might need guy ropes or pegging down some way methinks? Huh
I knew this weather was coming. So I propped a 3x3 in the ground and screwed it to the barrow. Plan B needed
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(23-05-2024, 07:53 PM)Small chilli Wrote: Tried without success to rescue plants that got thrown about when the sales barrow got blown over last night. I couldn’t reach all of them. No point standing it up again until the wind calms down. Did rescue all the crochet bits and wash them. I’ll make a decision on if they’re still any good when they’ve dried.

So frustrating, the weather ruining your hard work. You must get disheartened  SC.
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Counted sweetcorn plants and measured out the space they will ultimately need so that i know where the courgettes can go. Got one courgette planted outside. Then the early evening forecast predicted a colder than normal night so I covered what I could and transferred the rest of the tenders into the gh's. Bah! Needn't have bothered, it only went down to 9°C. Rinse and repeat tonight, they're forecasting 6°C and we're usually a couple of degrees lower.
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Had a fight with the barrow . Trying to stand it up.

   

I was very close to running out of talent. When my lovely neighbour came and helped. It’s simple with 2 people, you just pick it up. After a taking everything out and rescuing plant, washing key rings. Luckily all the crochet items in basket were fine. Washed everything down, re- wrote the signs. Put new plants & fresh crochet out. Pick all the broken lupins from the wind yesterday and put some jam jar posies out as well. 
Sold some stuff within an hour of it being upright.  Cool . To a car full of french ladies  Big Grin .

   
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(24-05-2024, 09:02 AM)JJB Wrote:
(23-05-2024, 07:53 PM)Small chilli Wrote: Tried without success to rescue plants that got thrown about when the sales barrow got blown over last night. I couldn’t reach all of them. No point standing it up again until the wind calms down. Did rescue all the crochet bits and wash them. I’ll make a decision on if they’re still any good when they’ve dried.

So frustrating, the weather ruining your hard work. You must get disheartened  SC.
At times very much so.

my lovely lupins morning before the storm.

   

My poor lupins that evening part way through the storm. I circled the barrow. Difficult to spot when it’s flat on its back  Rolleyes


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JJB Offline
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Not sure I should 'like' that. Heartbreaking.
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Went to the plot on my own. Weeded the area I was fretting about, lined the bank with cardboard, and put my mini beds alongside. It looks pretty poor but hopefully it'll keep things a bit under control. Planted out some flower, cucumber, bean, and pumpkin seedlings. Everything is so so small still. I'm feeling decidedly less than optimistic about getting any decent sized pumpkins this year. I'm really hoping to scrape some of the old wood chip into the compost and barrow down some new stuff that's on site to freshen things up and bulk out the compost bin. But of course it's forecast rain the rest of the time my husband is free so good luck...
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