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Treacodactyl
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism

Posted: Tue Dec 22, 15 5:50 pm Post subject: Plans for 2016

What are everyone's plans for next year?

We've finally got a greenhouse again and a fair sized plot for a veg bed so we're going to go for a fairly traditional plot of carrots, onions, cabbage etc and a small greenhouse of toms, cucs and the odd chilli.

Hopefully we'll start off some asparagus and rhubarb but not much in the way of new unusual veg this year.

In this current weather I'm resisting the urge to look up varieties of rice...

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Tue Dec 22, 15 7:19 pm Post subject:

NorthernMonkeyGirl and I have plans for more weird stuff. Skirret, ocha, etc.. I'm going to try to integrate a chicken pen for the tiny bantams that can be moved from raised bed to raised bed to tidy them up. Apparently we are going to try cucamelons in the greenhouse and I want to give sweet potatoes a try inside this year - they did sweet fa outside last season. It's only 8 by 6 though, so not too much space.

I don't bother with big toms because my Ma grows them commercially, but I will put some little ones in. My asparagus and rhubarb should bear a bit of picking and Nenna has a fab strawberry bed going. Both kids are obsessed with growing green beans and carrots for the Guineapigs. I want to get my soft fruit bushes a bit more organised - they are scattered all over the garden and I idly wondering about a fruit cage made from Heras panels that could double as a Quail enclosure.

Apart from that, not a great deal

joanne

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 7100
Location: Morecambe, Lancashire

Posted: Tue Dec 22, 15 7:51 pm Post subject:
Get our extension built and the house redecorated from top to bottom It will mean we probably have to move out for about 2 months and therefore I'm not really planning on doing anything this next year as its all going to be stressful enough!

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45723
Location: Essex

Posted: Tue Dec 22, 15 9:25 pm Post subject:
More furniture, try and do a better job pruning

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Tue Dec 22, 15 11:28 pm Post subject:
Build a house. Restore 2 more motorcycles.

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42228
Location: North Devon

Posted: Wed Dec 23, 15 12:25 am Post subject:

vegplot wrote:

Build a house.

.

You *always* say that.

Rejig garden. Eradicate artichokes.

baldybloke

Joined: 24 May 2008
Posts: 1388
Location: Wiltshire

Posted: Wed Dec 23, 15 7:31 am Post subject:
Grow more veg and other undertake other garden projects. Like Vegplot work on my motorcycles. Also intend to get fitter and lose some weight.

OtleyLad

Joined: 13 Jan 2007
Posts: 2737
Location: Otley, West Yorkshire

Posted: Wed Dec 23, 15 7:44 am Post subject:
Get my garden back into shape - its showing serious signs of neglect. I will grow some sprouts for us this time (I usually grow them just for the caterpillars ).

jema
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 28362
Location: escaped from Swindon

Posted: Thu Dec 24, 15 7:36 am Post subject:
Get the garden in to shape when it comes to the parts of it that are not major projects, try and show restraint with the rest of it!

earthyvirgo

Joined: 24 Aug 2007
Posts: 7972
Location: creating prints in the loft, Gerlan

Posted: Thu Dec 24, 15 12:50 pm Post subject:
Build a house (with vegplot). Keep my printmaking business moving forward and upwards - aiming to be in two more new galleries in 2016. EV Last edited by earthyvirgo on Thu Dec 24, 15 7:29 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
Posts: 15472
Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Thu Dec 24, 15 2:31 pm Post subject:
Find someone to head up younger daughter's school's PTA and get behind them with some serious effort...

Pilsbury

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
Posts: 5645
Location: East london/Essex

Posted: Thu Dec 24, 15 4:13 pm Post subject:

Seriously tidy up the garden again that has been neglected for the last few years, open up the veg beds again and teach little one about sowing and growing.
I want to get set up with a couple of incubators (6-

eggs and a little plastic box to use to teach the kids at nursery about hatching eggs and chicks.
Start the repairs around the house thst have been postponed until now and generally try a bit harder.

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Thu Dec 24, 15 4:22 pm Post subject:

earthyvirgo wrote:

Build a house (with vegplot)
EV

You say that every year

Slim

Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Posts: 6712
Location: New England (In the US of A)

Posted: Thu Dec 24, 15 5:22 pm Post subject:
Figure out a good way to put plastic on my DIY conduit hoophouse for earlier spring greens without it getting shredded by spring storms....

jettejette

Joined: 01 Jun 2013
Posts: 225

Posted: Sun Dec 27, 15 4:34 pm Post subject:
Sort out my garden path, so that I no longer have to cross a pond or quagmire to get to the car!

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