What I Did Today Archive 2008

[allotmentlady]

I am pooped........spent all day yesterday removing a 6x8 greenhouse off one plot, moving it onto mine, then puting a base down for it, then screwing it all down. Then started putting glass in but eventually went home cos my arms gave up.
Today, glorious sunshine, revived energy, got up to lottie at 9.30am, started putting rest of glass back in. Gave my old 6x6 greenhouse to an old chap who didnt have one, it took 5 of us to carry intact frame and polycarbonate over 2 fences onto his lottie, finished glass at 12.30pm. Then collapsed in shed, drinking tea.......went home at 2.30pm, collected kids, did shopping, made a salad for tea, then back to plot and put in my tomato plants in greenhouse. Chatted to Abbie, another lottie holder and came home.

Tomorrow, off to rotovate land again for spuds and collapse tomorrow night.

Oh, I get my new car on Thursday Whooooo Hooo A pretty good week for me this week

[Kimbo]

I spent the last two days putting up a greenhouse that according to the instructions would take three hours to do (I feel like suing the manufacturers). I had hoped to get the grass done and unless it brightens up today I have no chance it will have to wait till weekend.

At least now I can get round greenhouse No1 which previously had greenhouse No 2 stored in it and now my tomatoes have a new home instead of my dining room table.

[allotmentlady]

Rain, rain, rain, rain no rotovating today :-(

[jackie j]

Took grandson to the Lottie again today its sunny a few clouds and dry. He was beavering away again today didnt have the heart to stop him but i will have my work cut out to undo what he has done.!!! planted some more raddish cherry belle, transplanted salad bowl lettuce, put net up for peas they are nearly ready to climb.
Grandson goes back to school tomorrow chicken pox over.

[gardenplot]

Rain this morning and fog cleared up by lunch time sun came out, went down and dug out another bed on Lottie and planted my potatoes, “at long last” been waiting since Sunday to get them in.
Re-potted some cabbages in to 3inch pots and sown some more seeds Swede & Beetroot, I’ve finely started to plant out on the allotment.

[allotmentlady]

interesting day

Rain cleared by lunchtime, but couldnt rotovate, I do hope it passes us tonight tmorrow. This evening I repotted my baby tomato plants, put canes in for the big ones and planted my bareroot goji berries. Weeded....watered and sat contemplating with a brew on what I can do tmorrow.........

[Snadger]

A good day today. Started in the greenhouse by sowing cukes and courgettes to take home and put in the propagator. Sowed Rudolph PSB and savoy cabbage. Sowed a packet sweetcorn into modules. Potted on my 10 Jalapeno plants.
Outside I managed to get a few panes of glass added to my half built greenhouse. I went to next doors plot which is vacant and seconded a small chicken hut for broody hens. It was going to be burned so I said I'd find a place for it in my run. Of course it was too wide to fit through the door to the run so I had to partly dismantle it to get it in. It needs a new floor anyway!
After that I shifted about half a ton of well rotted horse poo into one of my compost heaps as I had a shed to erect where the poo was. To cut a long story short, shed was erected but I need to screw it together tomorrow when I have my portable electric screwdriver with me.
Finished off by knocking up another pallet compost bin to give me three bins in total and digging some leeks and carrots to take home.

Oh nearly forgot, I became a mature fruiter on the vine!

[hawthorns]

planted out broccoli, sown turnips, leaf salad, and radishes

[Winged one]

Yesterday -
Handed thesis to binders and then heard from someone else about a load of mistakes (fun for this morning!!)
Ran out to local authority - paid this year's rent and got new key
Flew home, changed into geardening gear and grabbed tools
Went to plot (1st visit in 5 weeks) - not too bad in terms of weeds etc although a sheet of corrugated had flown in from somewhere and landed on the caulis (they weren't doig well anyway and finders-keepers on the tin).
Planted the spuds - too close but in the ground
PLanted 4 loo rolls of peas
Harvested 3 tops of PSB!!! And a cabbage, and a lettuce thinning!! Eating the lettuce as I type (can't wait for lunch - sad I know!!), PSB tonight and cabbage tomorrow.

Need to go back at the weekend and plant onion sets, sow lettuce, carrot, pea, spring onion and radish seeds and do a big weed. And do some more seeds at home - pumpkin, peas, beans and sweetcorn. And plant a courgette into the garden.

[Flummery]

Yesterday - Received, stroke, toyed with then sowed Seahorse's gift of King Tut peas with a couple of extras sent in the packet - a few each of Salmon Flowerd Pea and True Red Cranberry pole bean. Hope to get a decent seed crop from them all and pass on some of the goodies in Autumn. Many thanks, MOM. I also planted out my parsnips in their loo roll nests. Two full rows and no gaps - never managed that by direct sowing! Planted out the lovely Rose de Roscoff onions from Piglet - they look right at home there. They are in the home garden because onions 'don't do well' on out allotment site.
Today - just off to plant out the rest of my Sutton broadies at the allotment and to harvest more of the 'compulsory' spring cabbage and curly kale for tonight - got to get that bed empty for beans!
Just opened a package from the post - Heirloom Vegetables by Sue Stickland - the seed saving lady. Looks like a right good read!

[allotmentlady]

Raining here again last night :-( hoping the sunshine will stick around and dry off so i can rotovate tonight! Well behind with my sowing........broad beans are through, so is the carrots yiphee!

Off to go and collect new car .....

[carlseawolf]

another milestone .

Today i managed to finish the construction of my long raised bed and i've nearly finished topping up with seived soil , just a couple of barrow loads to go.

I have gone with the blue pipe / debris netting to cover it and made some weights to hold it down using white waste pipe filled with concrete and a metal rod bent in the shape of a hook .

The white pipe used is about 40mm and 7" long.

I also weeded the garlic and onion beds and put bonfire ash around fruit trees and the formentioned garlic and onions.

[Snadger]

Cleaned out the wood burning stove and put the ash around my soft fruit bushes.
Made some edging for a raised bed, edged the bed, raked the bed and planted 24 caramba F1 hybrid (sweetheart) cabbage plants that I'd grown in modules into position.
I was going to go away to the chippie for my lunch when I noticed a trio of flying rats(woodpigeons) sitting in the tree nearby watching me. Decided I'd better net the cabbages straight away or else they would be in tatters when I got back from lunch! I got the netting out the shed to find a mouse must have chewed a large hole in it so I had to do a bit of ad lib patching up before I could use net. I put some slug pellets round the plants, assuring myself the birds couldn't get at them through the netting. I watered each plant in with a week solution of Armillatox.

Put a few more panes of glass in my ongoing greenhouse project and reminded myself I must purchase a glass cutter to make some of the makeshift panes fit.

Planted approximately 60 gladioli corms in front of my apple cordon with a bulb planter. I still have another 60 to plant out later for succession.
Although I practice a 'no dig' philosophy I had to dig over a bed which didn't get dug a couple of years ago, hopefully i'll never need dig it again once i gert it mulched up!
Came home with a large carrier bag full of Desiree potatoes which had overwintered in my clamp and three large sticks of very clean rhubarb which poked its head through the straw around it!
I was also given all the bumph off the previous allotment secretary, should make for interesting reading as some of the stuff dates back to WW2!

[Winged one]

Last night - planted courgette into garden as it was too far along in its pot.
Planted 3 toms (2 moneymaker, 1 gardeners delight) into garden as well (to see ifg they survive the trashing they got when falling down!!).
Planted beetroot modules (the very early sowing which wasn't great TBH) into garden.
Got a couple of shovels of partially done compost for the base of the 2 large planting holes - need to turn over the bin at weekend.
Moved all the tomato, basil and pepper seedlings to the mingreenhouse

Then went in and had our own PSB for dinner!! What a great way to celebrate OH and I both finishing the academic year yesterday (he teaches parttime and I hand in thesis today - it is FINALLY done - sorry, I really will stop about that today).

[Newbie]

Just back from jollies so planted remaining 1st early potatoes into large pots in the garage (Vales Emerald & Pentland Javelin) and then got the 2nd earlies & main crop into the veg patch (Yukon Gold & Sante), sorted through seeds & put some up for swapsies (go on, have a look - you know you want to!? Not got anything else sown yet except for sunflowers - feel so far behind!