What I Did Today Archive 2008

[sewer rat]

Spent this morning being a judge in the town's "best kept garden competition, then spent the afternoon digging tatties and harvesting courgettes. Piccies attached !
The courgettes are a mix of Ambassador and Defender (the green ones ) and Taxi (the yellow ones). The tatties are (from left to right) Charlotte, King Edward, Lady Christl with Red Duke of York at the front.

[ChocClare]

In between torrential downpours, I have been harvesting ALL my non-pot-grown spuds as they were looking decidedly blighty - lots of 'em in the shed, woohoo, but glad I've still got a load in buckets. Also lots of courgettes, VERY few beans, NO runner beans AT ALL yet, but my early onions and garlic are all out as are the shallots. Tomatoes I have in droves (if you can have tomatoes in droves). I now have SPACE. What can I bung in it? Anybody sowing anything at the moment?

[bubblewrap]

Went blackberrying picked 17lb(12 litre bucket full)
I will go back tomorrow & get the same again.
Lots of wine later on in the year

[bubblewrap]

Yes another 17lb of Blackberry's
Still plenty left

[sewer rat]

Today I lifted 150kg assorted potatoes, planted 3000 leeks (12,000 to go)made up and delivered a veg box for a raffle prize and picked a heap of veg for tonights kitchen extravaganzq - tonight Chef Rat shall be making the following (in commercial size batches natch) Cucumber and Mint Soup, Courgette Pea and Mint Soup, Yellow Courgette and Bell Pepper Soup, Courgette Chutney, Green Tomato Chutney and finally Rowan Jelly. So won't be on now til tomorrow !!

[womble]

I pruned and tied in my raspberries, tayberry and boysenberry, then went and stood in the greenhouse for a while, admiring my toms and chillis

Oh and I also cleared the raspberry bed of weeds, moved a couple of canes, removed the shredded woody mulch, added a bag of compost, 3 bags of leaf compost(ish), then replaced the woody mulch.

[Wren]

Today me and my small Niece Rhianna harvested the last of the Beetroot's and now they are all cooked up, sliced up and pickled in jars and stored away for the yule tide festivities.
We also harvested Runner beans, the first cropping off the Kale, some sprouting broccoli and tonight we will have a feast of veg with our chicken pie and new potato's. My sister is gonna love me, as my small Niece is now insisting that she wants to grow her own too and mummy must buy her a composter.. Hey ho! ..


Wren

[wellie]

Okay. I've really, really, enjoyed myself today. I've spent HOURS on my particular Show Entry for next weekend. Then I looked at how very many Courgettes needed picking in our Potager Garden, so I phoned a very lovely Landlord of a pub we like, and asked if his chef wanted some. And he did, which was cool.....

With having phoned my Entries through to The Show Secretary last night of The Bream Show, I am now committed to entering those categories, which was itself a weight off my shoulders to have done that, as if I hadn't, I'd of missed entering, as the last entry was close of play today. And HRT or no, it WAS a possibility that Wellie MIGHT have forgotten to do that toady.
Thank you for listening,
X

[sewer rat]

Well, yesterday was the local Highland Games (Tain Highland Gathering as sponsored by Glenmorangie Ditillery), so I put up my stall on Wednesday night, went home about 9:30pm and made yet another batch of soup, got up at 4am on Thursday and picked a heap of veggies for the stall, drove to Inverness at 6am to collect organic milk, cheese and fruit for my box deliveries, back to the field at 8am, picked all the leafy veggies, drove back to Tain, grabbed a cup of coffeee then spent the day on the stall at the games. Business was slow in the morning (nobody wants to lug vegies around all day, but it was pretty much non-stop in the afternoon. My soups, chutneys and rowan jellies did well, so pretty happy. Even Tony, local Environmental Health Officer bought two soups (Golden Courgette & Bell Pepper and Cucumber & Mint) - phoned me today to say the Courgette & Bell Pepper soup was ace (chuffed as I made this one up myself). Anyway, finished and all packed up at 6pm, home for bite to eat then off to fields again last night to start picking veggies for my boxes which are delivered on a Friday.Got too dark at about 10:30pm so came home, went to bed, up at 4 this morning to pick more veg and make up my boxes, then spent the rest of the morning digging up tatties (in the p*ssin rain) for tomorrows Farmers Market, picking broad beans and courgettes, applying my predatory mites to the beans and cukes in the tunnel that red spider mites are attacking, watered tunnel, came home. Going out to work again tonight (door steward), will get home at 2:30am then back out at 4am to pick vegies and load van etc for Farmers Market. Home at 7am for a cuppa then off to market.

[Snadger]

Collected seven eggs from my ten chooks today. A couple of weeks ago I wasn't getting any. So proud of my girls!

[Snadger]

Spent all day at the allotment today. Got 7 eggs this morning then after a protracted racket this afternoon another was layed in the nestbox.
Mixed up my own variation on John Innes compost and potted up my 9 chrysanths into large pots.
Planted out some savoy cabbage and Spring cabbage. Tickled and raked one bed that had had alliums in it and sowed four rows of spring cabbage.
Took the netting off my caulis and put it over the cabbage. Weeded another brassica bed with Calabrese and cabbage in it. Weeded the PSB bed. Collected a few Crimson flowered broadies for next years seed.
Accepted the offer of a couple of corrugated glass fibre sheets to make a lean-too on hen hut.
Put hasp on run entry door and chicken coop and fitted new locks. Cleaned out chooks and gave them lots of weeds and brasica leaves throughout the day.
Left the allotment with a smile on my face, content that I had achieved what I set out to do.

[bubblewrap]

Dug up 2 rows of potatoes filled a wheelbarrow 4 rows to dig.

[theresa2]

hiya any idea what nut shells can be used for

[Newbie]

Spent three hours in the flower bed, pulling out, chopping down, moving, dividing. Looks MILES better now, nearly died off though when i was rummaging around pulling up weeds & a huge toad appeared out of the earth under my hand!!
Also Harvested a few bits & pieces for Bro & Sis in law (beetroot, cucumbers, chillies, garlic, courgette).

[petal]

pulled up bindweed, husband dug up valor potatoes - bumper crop! started to create new pathways as we harvested produce. picked sweetcorn and yellow courgettes, runner and dwarf beans.