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Badly neglected. The fruit trees and so on are fine, though I need to beat back the dandelions a bit. The annuals are way behind: I have the tender stuff - tomatoes, chillis, melons, stuff like that - at seedling stage in the greenhouse and they need transplanting. All the other stuff - beans, peas, lettuce, corn, etc - all needed to be planted already and aren't. They'll just have to run late and maybe crop under protection at the end of the season.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed May 7th, 2008 at 03:18:14 PM EST
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Oh, and the garden is full of yellow flowers from brassicas and land cress run to seed. Pretty enough in an overgrown sort of way and the bees seem to like them but I don't think they'll win any gardening prizes.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed May 7th, 2008 at 03:30:03 PM EST
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I woulda thought you'd be using dandelions in salad. More bitter than rocket, but interesting.

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu May 8th, 2008 at 06:39:17 AM EST
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Well, yes, to a certain extent, but there's only so much of them you can eat and they're getting out of control. I said beat-back, not eradicate!
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu May 8th, 2008 at 07:11:34 AM EST
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