What I Did Today Archive 2008

[Winged one]

OH took the second earlies (beautifully chitted!!) to the plot yesterday, along with some modules of lettuce seedlings, to come home with them still in his hands!! Lock on the gate was new and there's a broken key in it already so trying to find ou twhat the situation is (and hoping LA are not playing silly buggers again).

Anyway, we stuck the lettuces into the garden (I had already put 2 modules into the garden on Sat and spuds back upstairs for a few days. I put the mange tout, dwarf french beans and borlotti beans from early loo roll sowings into the garden as well along the fence.

Last night, I made a lot of new sowings indoors -
Tomatoes: Sub arctic
San Mareno
Rio Grande
Super Roma
Harlequin
Salads: Niche mix
Spicy mix
Land cress
Corn salad
Spinach
Coriander
Courgette: Defender
Golden Dawn
Summer Squash - Sunburst
Leeks: Musselburgh
Castor
Peas: Little Marvel
Dwarf French beans (variety escapes me)

Then I retired to the couch, glass of limoncello in hand, and refused to take up knitting needles (only have 1 side seam to do on baby blanket required for weekend, but refused to pickup stitches last night!). Watched Monty Don flitting around South East Asia.

[Winged one]

Sorry - forgot to add sowed chilli's as well - Joe's Long (OH was NOT impressed!! )

[zazen999]

Yesterday we:

Went to check out the plots at the new lottie; meeting the guy today at 4 so we wanted to check out the options and agree on our first choice.

OH bought a load of bordery plants for his patch from Trowell GC; loads of choice there if you are Nottingham/Derby based.

I pottered around, marked out the 3 sisters beds so that I know what to sow; did some weeding, and sowed some ailsa craig onions.

[heebiejeebie]

A productive afternoon and a treat for the local blackbirds.

The weather forecast said it would rain this afternoon so I had little hope of doing anything in the allotment but... THEY WERE WRONG

I threw some "growmore" around and planted the potatoes:
20 Arran Pilot
21 Anya (18 in the ground, 3 in a bucket)
32 Sarpo Axona

The sarpos were supposed to be sold in bags of 20 so I bought two online - only to find they were sold by weight and the tubers were tiny! I have about 50 more chitted & ready to go Freecycle! In the process of planting I found two small parsnips.

Removed the netting from the overwintered brassicas and pulled up the remaining 4 Kale (Black Tuscan) and fed it to the chickens. Not impressed with it at all. Might try again this year with a different part of the plot. Weeded around the PSB, removed one that fell over under the weight of a Hard Stare because some critter had munched through the stem. Removed all the cardboard mulch I'd planted through and let the birds be my instruments of revenge on the slugs. Replaced the netting over the PSB.

Started digging over & weeding what will be the squash bed.
Removed the tarp from the pea & bean bed-to-be.
Tidied up the strawberries.

Pulled two leeks to have with dinner.

[Eternal Sunshine]

I nipped to the allotment for an hour this afternoon & planted 30 "Foremost" first earlies. It was a very good feeling to be planting something instead of digging.

[allotmentlady]

I bet it was eternal........I HAVE DEF planned to go to lottie tomorrow, come rain or shine!

Done nothing but chill all day.

[Beki]

Today i put the staging back into the greenhouse (everything came out when we lost a few panes, but they've been replaced now), and put all my seeds back out there - my house is now seedless! Yay!

I potted on...

24 sweetcorn

15 or so basil

3 yellow capsicum peppers

1 cucumber

2 pumpkin

10 or so beetroot

I sowed into cells/modules...

15 fresno chillies

25 purple capsicum peppers

20 tomatoes

11 cucumbers

20 sweet pointy peppers

20 red cherry chillies

I then gave everything a thorough watering, and then spent a couple of hours trying to make myself look busy so i had an excuse to stay out there longer without being nagged by the kids or OH lol

The greenhouse is looking somewhat like a garden centre at the moment I love it though

Oh, and i got a bit of sunburn!!!!! On my nose and cheeks, and the tops of my shoulders... I looooovvveeeeeeeeeee the start of summer (please let it last!!!)

xxxx

[veg4681]

Oriental Leaves Planted Out

Glorious day, so mild was the weather the soil was warm to the touch. Planted out most of the first sowing of the year of Oriental leafy Brassica in the raised bed but these are only the bigger plantlets that were suffocating the smaller ones in a crowded fruit bush plastic packaging that I had got from Woolies . Apart from Pak Choy & Chinese Cabbage (prickly looking leaves), at this stage can't tell apart the Choy Sum from Komatsuna and the Collards from Kailaan but think I recognised the Tatsoi (so sweet looking) which were repotted separately in a deeper dish (fruit punnet) as they're still a lot smaller than those planted in bed. Remaining smaller leafy brassica repotted to give them more breathing/growing space, every leaves saved.

[esrikandan]

After a day of finance and meetings, I came home and put in the 3rd small raised bed in the back garden.

[deezyb]

i did alot of stuff yesterday, but felt sooooo good to come home from work today, sun WAS shining, and with a couple of layers of clothes on, got out in the garden..sowed some more salad stuff, lisbon spring onions, mizuna etc. sat in sun with spritzer for a while...fantastic! bring on the spring!

[allotmentlady]

After a day of finance and meetings, I came home and put in the 3rd small raised bed in the back garden.

what a nice way to end the day eh? Bet it felt good lol

[Two_Sheds]

We had rain forecast, so of course it was warm and sunny all day! I managed to get the last of my onion sets in the ground, and my Arran Pilot, Maris Peer and Saxon spuds in. The soil was well-drained and surprisingly warm.

[carlseawolf]

not exactually today

here's what i've been upto since october last year.

pic 1 - looking up the plot from the fruit bed.

pic 2 - the bean trench

pic 3 - onion bed with compost heap in background , new rhubarb bed top right.

pic 4 - greenhouse base built from an old pallet , 8" by 1 1/2 " timber with 3" square posts.

pic 5 - potato bed left and onion right with stone path.

[Flummery]

Went to my son-in-law's to help with digging veg beds in their huge lawn. Champion turf stripper me! We went to buy some seed spuds and shallots and I picked up more compost. Came home to find my achochas that only emerged a couple of days ago are growing like triffids. Need separate pots - good job I got that compost!

[heebiejeebie]

Received "Black Beauty" courgette seeds (ta!) so I sowed 3 in 3" pots.
Bought tomorite and used it to feed the spring cabbages and PSB that are looking a bit sorry for themselves.