What I Did Today Archive 2008

[diana]

could not do anything in the garden today as it was blowing a gale and has not stopped raining all day and I dont have a greenhouse or polytunnel so baked a cake and very nice it is too but hopefully tomorrow I will be putting compost on my new raised beds.

[shirlthegirl43]

I bought the first of my seed potatoes today - Winston, red Duke of York, Charlotte and KIng Edwards. Also waiting for Vale Emerald and still to buy Edzell Blue and Golden Wonder.

Also bought some shallot sets, Topper and Red Sun.

[MURFE 18]

tidy up

Hi, all tidied up lottie today well what i could , with the rain and all, need to clean greenhouse glass , pots etc thinking of growing okra this year has anybody grown any before , , well think i needed a rest so came back home peeled the last of carrots , parsnips , for evening meal, and then ordered my seed potato,s from Marshalls . thought i ,d look on this site , see whats been happening to everybody,

[SarzWix]

Had a completely wasted day, stuck in with kids while it was DRY...because the OH decided to reschedule some stuff that could have easily been done while it was raining

[wellie]

Homemade Seville Orange Jelly on Toast for Trousers this morning, and Bramble Jelly on Toast for Wellie. Mmmm....!

Dismantled my homemade raised Strawberry Planter, and gave all 30 of the 'Temptation' seed sown plants to my elderly neighbour, and replanted all 25 of the 'Marshmallow' Strawb plants into The Potager.

Sowed a large raised bed-full of Bored Beans.

Dug up my 3yr old Fig Tree and put it in a pot. Ditto with my 1yr old Perpetual Rhubarb plant. (Both coming to France with me when we move)

Moved my very special Flowerpot People (Fert'n'Liza Flobalob) from the bench in the pretty garden, onto the bench in the Potager Vegetable Garden, just for a change!

Thank you for listening....

[Tracey]

Had a lovely day pretending it was spring. The birds were singing and it WASN'T RAINING! I pressure washed the chicken house and trampoline and cut some of the grass to tidy it up a bit.

After all the rain we've got mold growing in lots of places. Some strange life form has formed in the bird bath.

I feel good after a day 'playing' outside.

[Two_Sheds]

I biked into town and brought back ten tons of spuds and onion seeds from Wilko, hurrah!

Its raining again now.

[rustylady]

Cleaned up lots of pots, trays and seed labels. Sowed some PSB (summer sprouting), set some Sturon onion sets in cell trays to start them off, also sowed some Brunswick onion seed (still waiting for the Durador to germinate). It's been very mild, grey and damp here today.

[Snadger]

One of the aims of renting my allotment was to try and supply some fresh veg for 52 weeks of the year.

Taking into consideration we are rapidly approaching February I am very, very pleased with my harvest of veg for this week!

Yesterday I brought home about a wheelbarrow full of veg which included:-

Freshly dug Parsnip
Freshly dug Carrots
Desiree potatoes from clamp
Freshly dug Swedes
Freshly dug Leeks
Kilaxy cabbages
Winter savoy cabbage
Brussel sprouts
Calabrese
Stored Onions
Stored Shallots
White and red Ham Onions from store

I could have also brought home Toscana de Niro and Red Russian kale, snowball turnips and beetroot.........but there's always another day!
I also polished off a few of the Cape Gooseberries, but like Gardeners Delight tomatoes, they rarely leave the greenhouse!

Planted a couple of redcurrant bushes I had in pots from last year and mulched around the plants with FYM followed by a topdressing of straw to the whole area.
Started the re-hashing of the main greenhouse to get everything in position for the start of the new seed sowing season.

Only the Goosegogs left to plant now and they can wait until next weekend!

[Two_Sheds]

Snadger, you're just showing off now
I picked sprouts, curly kale, Italian kale, cabbage, mustard, pak choi, red giant mustard and the ubiquitous Chard. Not in great quantity, but enough for my tea.

[pigletwillie]

On the harvesting front we bagged

Leek
Valour potato
black tuscan kale
carrot
celeriac
beetroot
spring onion
lettuce
swede
Parsnip.

out in the home greenhouse I pricked out more rose de roscoff onion seedlings plus banana shallot and mammoth improved onion seedlings.

The sweet peas have germinated as have the dahlia seed and the hative de niort shallots are starting to put down some roots.

[seasprout]

Another Wasted Sunday.

I pressure washed the chicken house and trampoline

Your Chickens have a trampoline..?? God your posh.

Between 9--9.30am it did not rain, during that time i squelched up to the greenhouse..poked about, found a big brown caterpillar under a plant pot.

Had cup of tea, it started raining and has not STOPPED all day

Ive been watching Gardening, allotment related Dvds whilst doing the Ironing.

Fed up with rain.

It will be nice and sunny all next weekend..i'm at work.

[Hazel at the Hill]

I think that you all know wot I did toady ...after digging up some lovely parsnips yesterday and (not to be outdone by the boys!) a few leeks, I came home and embarked on the Parsnip Wine.

The wine is taking forever to cool to a temperature suitable for adding the yeast, which I hope to do later.

The parsnips have been roasted and turned into soup (I think it may be a bit thick - should you be able to stand your spoon up in it? ).

I've put a tray of pot sown broad beans in the mini greenhouse now that they've all germinated on the windowsill, and noticed that although the pot sown hative de niort shallotss are all showing green shoots, there's not much going in from the bananana shallots.

[scarey55]

The parsnips have been roasted and turned into soup (I think it may be a bit thick - should you be able to stand your spoon up in it? )

Hazel darling, It doesn't matter if the soup is thick as long as it tastes good (and I'm sure it does) and anyway, you could always spread it on toast ?!?

[Hazel at the Hill]

Hazel darling, It doesn't matter if the soup is thick as long as it tastes good (and I'm sure it does) and anyway, you could always spread it on toast ?!?

What a great idea!