tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post3337419978485905940..comments2024-03-28T11:21:09.694+00:00Comments on Magnon's Meanderings: Haddock's mid-May.Cro Magnonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06840670227576695352noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-83659106893107452152020-05-16T04:22:40.643+01:002020-05-16T04:22:40.643+01:00Go on! I love to see other veg' patches. In fa...Go on! I love to see other veg' patches. In fact looking over garden walls at different people's plots is one of my great pleasures.Cro Magnonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840670227576695352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-67002097610520138552020-05-16T04:20:33.052+01:002020-05-16T04:20:33.052+01:00I have to keep those away from prying eyes. I grow...I have to keep those away from prying eyes. I grow them in pots on the terrace of my blind elderly neighbour. She thinks they're Geraniums.Cro Magnonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840670227576695352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-4366594097153914292020-05-15T15:12:47.800+01:002020-05-15T15:12:47.800+01:00I was going to put up a few pics of my garden and ...I was going to put up a few pics of my garden and then you go and show your beautiful tidy plot and I've changed my mind!Frugal in Derbyshire https://www.blogger.com/profile/10221169113482164565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-5707772370007262522020-05-15T14:28:57.916+01:002020-05-15T14:28:57.916+01:00Your soil looks lovely. I wish mine was like that....Your soil looks lovely. I wish mine was like that. Where are your marijuana plants and your opium poppies?Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-75621160203985104662020-05-15T14:25:43.632+01:002020-05-15T14:25:43.632+01:00Didn't you recently have snow? We've had n...Didn't you recently have snow? We've had no proper winter here this year; our minimum was -1C, which is hardly glove weather. We got going about two weeks earlier than usual. Global warming?Cro Magnonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840670227576695352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-49458348373977126172020-05-15T13:48:03.181+01:002020-05-15T13:48:03.181+01:00So lush and neat and tidy! Our season doesn't ...So lush and neat and tidy! Our season doesn't start yet, but soon I will rototill the whole thing up and get started. To see your garden is very inspiring! -Jenncoffeeontheporchwithmehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17618627688821849806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-67669528461398679552020-05-15T13:32:06.582+01:002020-05-15T13:32:06.582+01:00I do the work in short bursts, and try to keep it ...I do the work in short bursts, and try to keep it tidy. Come Summer, I don't suppose it'll look quite so good.Cro Magnonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840670227576695352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-15587340862454413552020-05-15T10:51:36.689+01:002020-05-15T10:51:36.689+01:00What a lush garden. Spit spit spit.
It shows just...What a lush garden. Spit spit spit.<br />It shows just how much you love to garden. A lot of hard work with great resultslocal alienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14586011850451326646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-47671189106177205612020-05-15T10:04:46.938+01:002020-05-15T10:04:46.938+01:00Veg' gardening is one of my real pleasures. If...Veg' gardening is one of my real pleasures. If I didn't have Haddock's, I'd be lost.Cro Magnonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840670227576695352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-18710198076614276102020-05-15T09:56:33.397+01:002020-05-15T09:56:33.397+01:00I am so enviouse of your ability to garden Cro. ...I am so enviouse of your ability to garden Cro. Make the most of it - I used to garden in every spare minute but now my gardening is limited to one very flat space.The Weaver of Grasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13947971556343746883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-2277156528357892122020-05-15T09:33:20.249+01:002020-05-15T09:33:20.249+01:00Aren't there certain varieties that you can pu...Aren't there certain varieties that you can put outdoors? We used to grow ours mostly in greenhouses, but I seem to remember that some grew in the veg' patch.Cro Magnonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840670227576695352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-82438728692372062362020-05-15T09:31:40.686+01:002020-05-15T09:31:40.686+01:00Trying to keep it weed free saves me time, and eff...Trying to keep it weed free saves me time, and effort, in the long run. I'm too old for hefty digging.Cro Magnonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840670227576695352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-26046167527957497932020-05-15T09:20:05.313+01:002020-05-15T09:20:05.313+01:00It does look very impressive. We have to grow our...It does look very impressive. We have to grow our tomatoes in the greenhouse. It is never usually warm and sunny for long enough up here to grow them successfully outside. Although so far, this year's weather has been unusually warm and dry - so far!JayCeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01373622852406554111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-24261655858080843162020-05-15T08:47:28.980+01:002020-05-15T08:47:28.980+01:00Many points for the neatness of your garden beds.Many points for the neatness of your garden beds.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-75752379565125940492020-05-15T08:34:02.394+01:002020-05-15T08:34:02.394+01:00My fingers have been taped 'crossed' until...My fingers have been taped 'crossed' until September. I need a decent Tomato crop this year; my reserves are almost at nil.Cro Magnonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840670227576695352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-43309436978342359432020-05-15T08:25:49.911+01:002020-05-15T08:25:49.911+01:00You could rival Monty ...... it all looks wonderfu...You could rival Monty ...... it all looks wonderful and a promise of delicious things to come. Here’s hoping your tomatoes will be disease free. XXXXJacqueline @ HOMEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06154045482594773377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-65706601733233138352020-05-15T08:09:19.414+01:002020-05-15T08:09:19.414+01:00It could be blight, but my neighbours don't se...It could be blight, but my neighbours don't seem to suffer. Maybe they come in the night and spray them with blight-ex. I used to spray them with Copper Sulphate, but I don't think it did any good.Cro Magnonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840670227576695352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-2689235528152322192020-05-15T08:07:09.544+01:002020-05-15T08:07:09.544+01:00One year I woke to find that my Broad Bean plants ...One year I woke to find that my Broad Bean plants were BLACK from top to bottom. Paul should think himself lucky; we never did find out what'd happened!Cro Magnonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840670227576695352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-57156562213228127122020-05-15T07:31:40.718+01:002020-05-15T07:31:40.718+01:00So envious. We really miss our allotment in UK. ...So envious. We really miss our allotment in UK. It might have been heavy clay that had a fine line between concrete and slime (depending on the season), but it provided so much interest and most of the human food (and shady places to sleep and wildlife, and gardening neighbours to supervise, and abandoned plots to go stalking in... Does blight get your tomatoes? In UK now someone has developed an APP (there's an APP for everything) that tracks its progress across the country. It tends to start each season in Cornwall (warmest place) and works north and east on the circulating weather (tomato blight being airborne - spud blight is in the soil). We think the purpose (or the APP) is so gardeners can try to plan their responses. We've no idea what the appropriate response is tho - masks on the tomatoes?Tigger's Mumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15829665785202495073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-82790481657500822612020-05-15T06:55:38.215+01:002020-05-15T06:55:38.215+01:00Your wheelbarrow's a bit on the small side! Pa...Your wheelbarrow's a bit on the small side! Paul is not happy because something has been eating his broad beans.Suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10787732343048847565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-68481412001707500202020-05-15T05:45:56.747+01:002020-05-15T05:45:56.747+01:00I think it usually does at this stage, it's a ...I think it usually does at this stage, it's a bit later when things tend to go wrong. We'll see.Cro Magnonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840670227576695352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-66225880155319299892020-05-15T05:45:12.481+01:002020-05-15T05:45:12.481+01:00Not as exotic as your garden, Endah, but it provid...Not as exotic as your garden, Endah, but it provides most of what we need.Cro Magnonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840670227576695352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-87698572203332703412020-05-15T05:43:27.360+01:002020-05-15T05:43:27.360+01:00They are all together, but I use a strict annual r...They are all together, but I use a strict annual rotation system between my four separate beds.Cro Magnonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840670227576695352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-43937015773734151502020-05-15T04:43:38.104+01:002020-05-15T04:43:38.104+01:00As you say it is all looking good. As you say it is all looking good. Susan Heatherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14400003572211042194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-33145988304727698592020-05-15T04:43:23.126+01:002020-05-15T04:43:23.126+01:00Love to see your raised bed, so lush and healthyLove to see your raised bed, so lush and healthyEndah Murniyatihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16175364514530314348noreply@blogger.com