chrisp65 Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 First crop of new potatoes from the garden. Lightly sautéed in butter - from the garden to the plate in just under 20 minutes or so. Beautiful. Stripped the last of the broad beans yesterday, blanched and frozen in the chest freezer out the garage. Tonight, that now empty bed gets onions! I might lift a plant tonight then, and see what my potatoes look like. My gut feeling is that it's too early for mine, they were stuck in very late. On a general nature observation - a once thriving grass snake community appears to have disappeared. We used to have dozens upon dozens of them. Haven't seen a single solitary one in 12 months. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 I might lift a plant tonight then, and see what my potatoes look like. My gut feeling is that it's too early for mine, they were stuck in very late.I didn't lift them just had a root around in the soil and grabbed a few.I'd guess they've got another couple of weeks to go before a proper harvest (they went in around easter week - in pots/planters). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 ahh, I can't do the root around in the soil - I have what is technically known as ..... mud We've put years into the soil in this allotment, it started off as 'impossibly bad', we've gradually worked and worked it up to it's current status of 'a bit crap'. There are parts where less than a spade depth down there is a table of clay, which means 30% of our patch floods in a light drizzle. Luckily, the allotment is oversized so we've learnt where we can grow what, where to use raised beds and where to just chuck some pumpkins on the surface. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 we gave up our allotment, it was infested with mares tail and year after year we tried to get rid of it, in the end mares tail won and now we just have our garden, broadbeans, runners, potatoes, sweetcorn and in the greenhouse, tomatoes, cucumbers and chillis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingram85 Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 (edited) We have a gardening thread for you titschmarsh dimmock fearnley-wittingstall good life hippy types! Go on, get! Edited June 29, 2015 by Ingram85 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 when you start up a 'grubby little addiction for pensioners and deadbeats' thread for your scratchcard based posts, I'll stick my parsnip n sprouts junk in the correct recepticle 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 when you start up a 'grubby little addiction for pensioners and deadbeats' thread for your scratchcard based posts, I'll stick my parsnip n sprouts junk in the correct recepticle A sentence never written before in the history of the world. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted June 29, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted June 29, 2015 when you start up a 'grubby little addiction for pensioners and deadbeats' thread for your scratchcard based posts, I'll stick my parsnip n sprouts junk in the correct recepticle A sentence never written before in the history of the world. No, I think you'll find that it was said by Lord Palmerston at the funeral of King William IV. Although he said it in Swahili, so as to not cause offence. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post snowychap Posted June 29, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted June 29, 2015 ...I'll stick my parsnip n sprouts junk in the correct recepticle This is VT, you'll never be encouraged to stick your junk in the correct receptacle. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 (edited) imperial leather soap, you cant beat it or as i call it the gentlemans soap. Edited June 29, 2015 by Rugeley Villa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eames Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 ...I'll stick my parsnip n sprouts junk in the correct recepticle This is VT, you'll never be encouraged to stick your junk in the correct receptacle. [emoji38] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Xela Posted June 30, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted June 30, 2015 The sunshine and the wonderful sights it brings out. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Wainy316 Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 The sunshine and the wonderful sights it brings out. I assume you're not talking about lovely blue sky horizons? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 (edited) imperial leather soap, you cant beat it or as i call it the gentlemans soap. They used to charge about a fiver for that back in the day. Edited June 30, 2015 by snowychap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Folski Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 Got this total bitch of a client right, she doesn't like me because she would like someone older doing her work, I'm 26 the two other people here on my level aren't even close to my level of qualification, and in terms of exams I'm also more qualified than my boss now, who owns the business. Anyway she was proving exceptionally difficult all through out the work in Jan/Feb really speaking down to me and what not. So after 3 days off, I come back to a message from her that she's told my boss that she is "very unhappy & extremely annoyed" that she came all the way in (20mins drive) to collect her stuff and that her cash book was missing. Luckily I've an email from her on the 20th of Jan saying she called to collect the cash book as I no longer needed it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meath_Villan Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 We got our first big client for the family business(accounting) ....once the bills are paid I'm trading in my heap of shit car 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Folski Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 We got our first big client for the family business(accounting) ....once the bills are paid I'm trading in my heap of shit car Must have been a lot of depressed heads in Meath Monday morning MV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meath_Villan Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 We got our first big client for the family business(accounting) ....once the bills are paid I'm trading in my heap of shit car Must have been a lot of depressed heads in Meath Monday morning MV. Sure was 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Folski Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 Got this total bitch of a client right, she doesn't like me because she would like someone older doing her work, I'm 26 the two other people here on my level aren't even close to my level of qualification, and in terms of exams I'm also more qualified than my boss now, who owns the business. Anyway she was proving exceptionally difficult all through out the work in Jan/Feb really speaking down to me and what not. So after 3 days off, I come back to a message from her that she's told my boss that she is "very unhappy & extremely annoyed" that she came all the way in (20mins drive) to collect her stuff and that her cash book was missing. Luckily I've an email from her on the 20th of Jan saying she called to collect the cash book as I no longer needed it. Just got another phone call from her saying the cash book was not in her possession and she was also missing bank documents, she then found them on the phone and called her self an idiot. Then emailed me this. " Thanks again Chris for being so helpful. Cash book was here and all bank documents at the bottom of the bag. With my thanks and best wishes. Geraldine." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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