The 'What I Did Today' Archive - 2007

[sewer rat]

Forgot to mention earlier - I've got flea beetle so Derris dusted about half an acre of plants !!

[heebiejeebie]

Have been busy with the "other hobby" again and the weather has been a bit... well... antigardener. However, I have had more lovely Anyas from the lottie and red salad bowl lettuces from the garden. My mystery beans have germinated.

Went out with the camera at the first hint of sunshine today, so the blog is up to date again! Everything seems to be doing well, even the cos lettuces that I had given up on are recognisable amongst the weeds. Next job will be weeding the lettuces and parsnip bed. And the swede bed, and the spinach, and... and...

[Salina]

Today I harvested my first strawberries and radishes of the season, yum! the strawberries are lovely and sweet.
And I've also sowed some lettuce, spinach and autumn salad mix seeds.

[Kimbo]

Well today I finally got the remainder of the roof on the greenhouse (still got a bit of work to do on it but I ran out of screws).

I harvested a full morrisons bucket of broad beans and half a one of peas. I also pulled a few baby turnips (arcoat and snowball) to have with sunday dinner.

I am going to have to cut down the broad beans now that I have harvested nearly all the beans. I am going to see if I can get another crop from them later in the year (have some more seeds on stanby just in case they done grow).

I also have some more peas to sow to get a crop later on.

Well I had better get those peas and beans shelled and bagged up for the fridge.

[Hazel at the Hill]

Went to Wilko - couldn't resist 75% off seeds - also bought some chicken pellets.

Went to the Hill and dug up the remaining 20 garlic bulbs, chopped down the bored beans, dug over and fed the misc bed where the garlic were and planted out 10 various tomato plants. Fed the various beans.

Was going to plant out the celery and sow some late peas, turnip and khol rabi, but the heavens opening and some serious rain stopped play!

Typical - sun now blazing down..........

[Vegmonkey]

Weeded the garlic, added a compost mulch to the onions and runner beans and put copper tape around all the pots....tempted to eat some more carrots!

[dexterdoglancashire]

Went to Wilkos and bought a load of seeds for next year Am now sorting through them all and making a list. Put even longer canes in the tomato pots and tied the tomatoes to them. Bought some cat grass seed, so have sown some for Ramsey and Crosby. Am spending lots of time enjoying myself, sourcing recipes for other grapes! :-)

[louise_81]

well this is my first time on this board.

Have quite an established garden, we bought in Feb but only moved in about 8 weeks ago due to the amount of work the house needed. I have now turned my attention to the garden.

Everytime I go into the garden I find something new.

So far we have

2 massive gooseberry bushes, in full fruit at the minute
3 red currant bushes
5 rhubarb patches( I bought a root, then 3 plants, then found some in the garden)
4 blackcurrant (?) bushes
about 20 raspberry canes
2 apple trees

as soon as we got the place in Feb I put potatoes and onions in.

this week I bought asparagus crowns from ebay and I have been out today planting them in between the showers. I managed to get 4 crowns in outside, and I have had to put some in old bins as they were starting to mould.

I also signed up for an allotment this week, I am number 5 in the list!

I also managed to get another 1/2 pound of fruit from the raspberies.

[Mrs Dobby]

Yesterday we harvested some 2lb of strawbs and about 1lb of rasps before setting off and having a great day at Yoanbob's, helping them to tame their plot and get it back into a growable state! With help from fellow grapes Sarzwix and Digger07 we had a great days digging and made a bit of an impact, as can be seen here http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...?t=5693&page=2

Today after we got home we ended up visiting a local hospital to visit a friend suffering with depression, only to find she'd discharged herself, so we caught up with her at her home, then popped to the plot for a quick harvest for tonights tea! On the menu, bored beans, swede, mange tout, new tatties, 2 types of courgette and cauliflower. Also harvested some iceberg lettuce and another cucumber, tomorrows butties for the plot methinks!

[rustylady]

There's a big yellow thing in the sky, and it hasn't rained too much today. Went to the lottie, dug some new potatoes (enough to last me and middle daughter's family for a week I hope). Picked bored beans and mangetout peas, 1 and a half courgettes (the slugs got the other half). Runner beans are looking good, flowers on and a few have just set. Sweetcorn growing well (the ones that did finally germinate). French beans looking good, climbing well, no flowers yet. Dwarf ones just sitting there. Everything is so wet, though.

[sewer rat]

We got rain today - big time ! Spent seven hours in me oilskins weeding my Edzell Blues and Maris Peers which had disappeared under a jungle of weeds.
Watered polytunnel - loads of toms forming, some baby cukes appearing and a considerable number of chilli peppers too.

[Scruffy Duffy]

Harvested loads of oriental leaves and salad bowl / /lollo rossa with a big handful of chives for salads for lunches. Noticed that the french beans have got flowers - hurrah! Still battling the slugs and snails but I think I'm winning. Going to have to do some extra sowing of peas, carrots and things, but not 100% sure if I've actually got enough room.

Looking forward to eating everything else.

SD

[vicpivo]

Collected about 300L of really well rotted horse muck from the local farm today. Went back to the allotment and put them over the runner beans bed, rhubarb, gooseberry, courgettes & butternut squash. That should keep them going for a while!

I also brought 4lbs of Ammonia Sulphate (for £1.08 which seemed a great deal!) and with water, added to a 500L bag of sawdust. The aim is to leave this until next year and use as soil conditioner.

I pulled up some spuds, spinach and rocket for my tea. The rain and done a lot of good to my plot, I need a bit of sun now to stimpulate a bit more growth....

[kirsty b]

Worked all day yesterday and early shift this morning, so only got down to plot this afternoon. Shifted some more bits of burned shed up to the top of the plot ready to take to the tip. Checked over my beans, the runners are flowering and I noticed the first teeny-tiny baby beans have formed on them! Also spotted that a few of the Sun Baby yellow toms are beginning to ripen, like little drops of gold hanging on the plant. Had such a bad week, its a real pleasure to notice the little stuff like this. Got some more tomato plants put out. Nearly all have set some fruit now. Big jim chilli doing well. 11 cm now!

[wellie]

Got to bed after a delightful Pizza Party at 4am Sunday, and never heard Trousers snore once whilst I was asleep! A beautiful cooked breakfast, and we all decided that fried onions just 'dont work' with a fry-up? but acres of hot toast and Anchor Butter does. Did a well-looked-forward-to tour of someone's lotties, and drove home mid-afternoon to gorgeous jet black cat, who had a special cuddly welcome for me.
And I'm anticipating the gift of a mouse at the top of the stairs at approximately 2.30 this morning if previous patterns are to be followed.
We watched the concert for Diana on the telly tonight.
Just truly amazing....
Thank you for listening,