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Post: # 58730Post GB_Groundworks

Those carrots look awful hahahaha




I have no idea what the first lot of green is on the left hehe butthought carrots would do to start. And oh no geotextile it's only 1% of the cost of a free job hahahahaha
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Post: # 58732Post lutonlagerlout

have you been wnacking again giles?

your eyesight is going mate

what carrots?

also if you look closely at pic1 from the lotty you will see the terram sticking up at the edges of the type 1

it was zero percent of this project as I had it in the stores

i am happy now ,I have got rid of all the oddends of paving in 1 full swoop
and i now have arguably the best path in stockwood leisure gardens <cough cough>
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Post: # 58749Post mickg

ha ha he is referring to the slightly worn in knuckles Luton...

lets not forget though he is still a young lad who wears gloves and has never gets his hands dirty, plus he has a brolly when working in the rain :D

nice size plot there luton with a posh path :)
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Post: # 58753Post lutonlagerlout

got 200 winter onions in and 100 garlic since september
still got a few leeks and Brussels left but the cauliflowers failed for the 3rd year in a row,same with swedes

got 7 lb of arran victory yesterday,and 7lb of picasso also 2 lb of sturon onion setts and 1 lb of shallots

i am trying to get the thing teed up this year before the growing season starts in april, its a great feeling seeing stuff you have grown end up on the plate
also the onions make me cry
when was the last time supermarket onions did that?
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Post: # 58761Post GB_Groundworks

Haha that's not me on roller that's our 56 year old foreman, and I only wear gloves when dealing with cement or sewage but not always my hands are as rough and scared, but bricks do tend to have it worse with drying out and cracking. My mates whos a bricki pees on his swears by it

I guess it the onions I was referring to first patch of green on the left of path small green shoots like big chives?

If you were closer I'd come run the rotator over it for you and I do a few jobs emptying muck heaps for horsey types when you get ton the button it's like black sludge nicely rotted down perfect for veg.

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Post: # 58765Post lutonlagerlout

they are garlic and winter onions giles,i'll send ya some when they are ready,make your eyes water
we could do with you down here
3 local farmers with manure heaps like a pair of semis
£35 for a 3tonner wagon full delivered,but every time i ring them,its "ring us baack in a couple o' weeks bhoy"
i thought farmers were money mad?
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Try a livery yard or riding school or private ladies with horses offer to empty it for them, I build simple block 3 sided ones on concrete bases then empty them every 6 months or so. But private ppl with 2/3 horses ponies bedding on straw is what you want. Normally first bit is to fresh all straw etc but the bottom bit is well rotted black sludge.

I know a few ppl who let gardeners come with bags and take it. If you had tipper etc you could collect and pile it at allotment and leave it 6 months be good stuff, it's easy light stuff to shovel
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Post: # 58803Post rab1

giles if you were only in scotland i`d take it all, my roses love this stuff :(
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Post: # 58816Post lutonlagerlout

i can get fresh all day long but as you correctly say its the black gold is where its at
problem is all the horsey places tend to dump the straw manure down the end of their field so its never easy to access without a 4WD
had some rocking spuds last year but used 5 cabstar full of manure
i dont know how they get veg in the shops,there is that much against ya when you are growing,slugs,mice,foxes(yes foxes eat veg when the notion takes them) pigeons,magpies,black-green-white fly, aphids, click beetles,moasaic virus,blight, earwigs, woodlice,wireworm (my personal nemesis)

i read in the paper last week that an allotment saves you 1500 quid a year on shopping!!!
rubbish
last year had maybe 100lb spuds ,50 lb runner beans,25 cabbages,15lb parsnips, 100 carrots,

swedes failed,cauli failed, 10 lb brussells ,gooseberries,redcurrants,apples,pears,blackcurrants, and raspberries total 3 raspberries :(

10 corn on the cob, 4 pumpkins,15 courgettes,10 lb french beans,

mange tout failed,sunflowers all seeds eaten by mice
50lb of onions and 100 garlic

now if this is all the lout family had to eat last year I wouldn't be anywhere near my career heaviest weight of 18 stone
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Post: # 58828Post flowjoe

Ha. crisps and chocolate for breakfast wont help either Mr Lout :p
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Post: # 58835Post haggistini

i was lucky to get a local allotment about 100M2 turned it over but just never got the time to tend to it with work and all so i let it go had big ideas of a kitchen garden and brewing my own cider ....... maybe when im poping on a bit :D
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p.s. both hands in the same boat LLL from whacking cookies setts in last week think it was the cold wind, lips and face are as dry as a nuns .... too :;):
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Post: # 58885Post lutonlagerlout

flowjoe wrote:Ha. crisps and chocolate for breakfast wont help either Mr Lout :p
i didn't hear you and tommy say no to those?
or to the breakfast baguettes? :;):
i reckon its the brown sauce that puts the weight on :;):
honest guv
would you believe i was 7 1/2 stone when i left school?
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Few years ago I went from 21 stone to 14.6 in 6 months to get a girl hehe then put it back on over the years I just love my food hehe
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Post: # 58895Post haggistini

im a fat barsteward 18stone i was tight head prop in school 13 stone at 13 yrs old i gotta shift a bit this year as i cant keep up with my 3 yr old boy
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