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What Have Mr & Mrs MG Been Up To in the Vegetable Garden This Week

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On Wednesday we finally managed to assemble and erect – well sort of :) The 6 metre long polycloche David was given for Christmas…

It didn’t help that it was quite windy so we ended up having a fair tussle with the beast but – finally it was in position.

Okay I KNOW it is squint and because of the size and our wanting to treat the moon bed and the control bed the same way a section of the path is now getting nicely warmed up!

We also planted parsnips and broad beans in the control bed…

I did the parsnips, two varieties Tender and True and Student. Sixteen seeds of each – at least they are easy to handle.

Then David did the broad beans… again two varieties – Whitkeim Manita and Super Aquadice.

Preparing the furrow (both they and the parsnips needed to be planted 1/2 inch deep).

Then he carefully covered up the bean seeds

And tamped the ground back down.

We did no sowing in the moon bed as it was a descending node and no work should be carried out in the garden on that day if your are growing by the moon.

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You are keeping him very busy moon grower. I better follow your lead and get my parsnips in. Lovely photos by the way.
My dad put in a water butt for me and its filling up nicely Were getting so much rain here. and its not April yet! Ive only been in the garden early mornings. I so want to do more, but the weather is aginst me.

26 Mar, 2010

 

Thanks Great, well we are both keeping very busy but as I am still working Mr MB has to do most of the labouring in the vegetable garden.

26 Mar, 2010

 

You have been bisy good luck with them all

26 Mar, 2010

 

Thanks Donnah

26 Mar, 2010

 

lovely to see how things are progressing now the horrid white stuff has gone.
hope not too many aches and pains after all that effort.

26 Mar, 2010

 

good work mr and mrs MB, things are shaping up well in the new area, lots of lovely produce to be had this year :o)

26 Mar, 2010

 

Hi Sandra... Fingers crossed we'll get a good crop! Right now I've ot a stonkering cold and feel like nothing on earth...

26 Mar, 2010

 

You poor thing! Get well soon. xx

26 Mar, 2010

 

Thanks Spritz... beautiful sunny day and himself is outside and I'm sitting with a hanky clutched to my nose.

27 Mar, 2010

 

poor you with a bad cold, it does drain you doesnt it and even if you want to get out you just cant get going, hope your feeling better soon mrs MB, ;o)

27 Mar, 2010

 

Thanks Sandra - yes I feel like a piece of overcooked pasta. Himself keeps suggesting we go for a walk but I'm just not up to it right now - the streaming nose and eyes are a pain. BUT looking on the positive side it is a cold not a chest infection!

27 Mar, 2010

 

yes your right could be alot worse, soon be back in the garden, but its frustrating to see OH out and your stuck inside, its gone a bit cold here now the suns gone in so just put my young plants in growhouse until tomorrow, out in day and in at night till better weather, i feel like a jack in the box with them lol

27 Mar, 2010

 

I have been out for little bits of time - pruned back the dead twigs and small branches from an weeping acer and did a bit of tidying but then gave up.

27 Mar, 2010

 

well you did a bit and got some air, at least its something, you will soon be out there again :o) take care x

27 Mar, 2010

 

sorry you are full of cold. hope you get over it asap. We too have had a lovely sunny day. but been on a sewing course so no gardening done. hope to tomorrow.

27 Mar, 2010

 

if your not sewing your sowing sea... lol :o))

27 Mar, 2010

 

lol - how did the knitting go SBG?

27 Mar, 2010

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