Republic of gnash

gnash · **Posted:** Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:13 pm

On the road today at 6am to get me another load of sheep poo, got back at around 8am and started in on the long garden, building my new compost area and more tyres for potatos, I'm kinda guessing the spuds won't do well with the heat thats coming but hey, what could it hurt :wink:

gnash · **Posted:** Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:22 pm

The squash I first planted is starting to fruit and the cherry toms are booming along.
Spread more manure in the yard garden, getting ready to go mad with carrots in there as we always are eating them.
The Girls are finally starting to get a shine to the feathers they still have and new ones are finally coming through, they get all the scraps from the kitchen at the pub where the GF works as the Kitchen manager and it's amazing how much they will actually get through.
I also feed them cracked grain, lupins etc.

chillidude · **Posted:** Mon Nov 01, 2010 11:02 am

Great looking setup Gnash - just finished going through your thread as I've had a bit of an absence form the forum.

Mate, sorry to hear about Grunt !

gnash · **Posted:** Sun Nov 07, 2010 1:37 pm

Thanks CD...just one of those things :bad:

gnash · **Posted:** Sun Nov 07, 2010 1:46 pm

Ok so into the garden today early to get tonight's veggies for roasting and more beans.

Left rear to right front. Carrots (still 5 rows to go and replanting today); Purple Garlic; Peas; Fennel; broadbeans; Swede; Yellow button squash; Red onion and radish :clap:

lurve fresh veggies.
Todays all about the gardens for me and then a few :cheers:

and welding up frames.

Better get to it

earthbound · **Posted:** Sun Nov 07, 2010 3:46 pm

Bloody beautiful Nash...... Have you found a use for Swedes yet? I grew a huge crop one year but ended up just chucking the lot into the chooks.

dufflight · **Posted:** Sun Nov 07, 2010 4:46 pm

After roasting beetroots I'd do the same for swedes.

gnash · **Posted:** Mon Nov 08, 2010 12:28 am

Roast them EB...cut them into cubes, coat with a good olive oil and throw some sesame seeds at them and do the same with beetroot....beautiful :thumb:

gnash · **Posted:** Tue Nov 09, 2010 1:55 pm

Was bored Sunday after posting and felt like playing in the shed.....so the Seedmaster VST-6 was born. (VST = Very Special Thing)
The slid on the side marks my row edges and the pointer out front lines up with that mark so you know where to start the next batch of seeds :wink:

Just finished in time for the GF's dad to turn up (was GF's B'day) and plant out one row of the long garden.
After that it all went pear shaped, a block of Vomit Bombs plus most of a square bear got demolished :cheers:

....oh well dinner was beautiful, roast beef and all my veggies, it was done in the weber which is still one of my fave toys.

The cover over the sleeper garden was put on last night as the sun is starting to wilt everything and this morning we had a little visitor courtesy of the cat :dont:

but we saved it and sent him on his merry way :thumb:

gnash · **Posted:** Tue Nov 09, 2010 11:19 pm

earthbound wrote:

Have you found a use for Swedes yet?

Tonight I fried up onion and grated swede and added it to the mashed spud...not bad really...might make it a personal mission to find swede recipes :wink:

freoboy · **Joined:** Sun Nov 07, 2010 11:40 pm **Posts:** 41

you were alowed to do gardening on the GF's bday?
whats your secret? hah

gnash · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 7:00 pm

freoboy wrote:

you were alowed to do gardening on the GF's bday?
whats your secret? hah

No secret FB...just did it :thumb:

freoboy · **Joined:** Sun Nov 07, 2010 11:40 pm **Posts:** 41

gnash wrote:

freoboy wrote:

you were alowed to do gardening on the GF's bday?
whats your secret? hah

No secret FB...just did it :thumb:

yeh been there tried that :dont:

Burnsy · **Posted:** Wed Nov 10, 2010 10:04 pm

freoboy wrote:

gnash wrote:

freoboy wrote:

you were alowed to do gardening on the GF's bday?
whats your secret? hah

No secret FB...just did it :thumb:

yeh been there tried that :dont:

He he, your still young enough to have a girlfriend who thinks good blokes like all us on here are a dime a dozen. Give her another 15 or so years and she will realise that having you go out and garden on her BD is a small price to pay :thumb:

gnash · **Posted:** Thu Nov 11, 2010 12:30 am

Burnsy wrote:

He he, your still young enough to have a girlfriend who thinks good blokes like all us on here are a dime a dozen. Give her another 15 or so years and she will realise that having you go out and garden on her BD is a small price to pay :thumb:

What he said :wink:

Plus my GF is a chef and really appreciates good fresh food when she can get it

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