What I Did Today Archive 2008

[kernowyon]

re-racked one demijohn of elderberry wine and one of pumpkin.

Off to the lottie this afternoon whilst car being MOT'd and try to tidy no.2 greenhouse ready for spring.

[Flummery]

Sowed some winter hardy salads in the cold greenhouse. Also planted out a few CHard platns left over from earlier in the year. I know they are hardy but putting them there means I can clear the greens bit of the garden.

[BrideXIII]

dug over the new patch of clag, sprinkled it with rabbit droppings and hay and shavings, covered it back up with cardboard, and ask the worms nicely to sort it out.
i do have a LOT of worms.
emptied 3 weeks of water out of my bucket collection, and finally filled the first water butt.
have 3 gallons of wine to rack off later, when i have warmed up.

[SarzWix]

On Next Door Man Plot
Cleared runner bean canes & debris, pulled up caterpillar shredded cabbages, and dug over the bed - about 3m x 4m

On Top Plot
Cleared out the little polytunnel, dug the two 1.5m x 3m beds, and hauled 6 bags of mushroom compost to cover them over.

I'm now so tired that the washing can wait, I'm off for a kip!

[kilnburner10]

Planted 2 rows of Broad Beans and 2 rows of Peas and covered them both in mini poly-tunnels.

[SarzWix]

Barrowed a load more muck to Next Door Man Plot, finally got an entire bed covered. It took a total of 10 barrowfuls to cover it!
Cleared out the bottom grenhouse of dead tomato plants, putting the spent compost in the wheelbarrow and the roots/stalks on the compost heap. Then I spread the compost on part of a bed in Next Door Man Plot (it barely covered ¼ of the bed, can't get used to these massive beds!), worked it in a little with a hand fork then planted 4 rows of onion sets which were 'leftover' (I orderded too many ). It may be a bit too late for them to get very big, but better tiny onions than wasted onions
At that point, being properly exhausted again, I made a lovely cup of hot chocolate and sat down to admire the view

[Mcbee]

Found a fox curled up in my garden this morning!

I made a veg bed this year so started to double dig it. Completed about 50% and got a bag full oof bramble roots bind weed and buttercup (what a lovely name for a truely invasive plant!). Then, after i managed to stand straight I pruned my pear / apple trees. A great weekend!

[gettingrowin]

Tidied the patio, sowed some salad in the lean-to, dug into the veg plot spent compost from patio pots, two sacks farmyard manure, lots of leaf mould and most of the contents of dalek composter. The soil is very sticky and clay, sticking to the wellies, sticking to the fork, but better where I have been working it for the longest, - hopefully all this organic stuff will help. Reclaimed a bit more land from the buttercups and docks, put some old carpet over a bit more to reclaim later, cut a cabbage, and put it in a vegetable stew and ate it. Yum.

[Two_Sheds]

I bought another 24 white dianthus winter bedding plants for 50p from B&Q.
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Made a butternut stew, collected another binliner full of leaves.
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Praised my bored beans, which have just broken through the compost, looking green & strong.

[Flummery]

After a big session in the home garden on Saturday - getting the area for the next year's hens ready and removing the weeds that have come in since harvesting - I went yesterday to the lottie and had a Big Dig. Got about half my plot dug over and spread with some good manure. The other half still has some crops on but here and there is a vacant bit of bed so there's still scope for a bit more digging and clearing.

[doodardog]

Inspected the well rotted manure I put over where the brassicas had been yesterday, fed the birds, got thouroughly wet through, so came in and lit stove. Hot cup of tea, bar of choccy turn computer on to forum so can I virtual garden.

[Noodles]

On Sunday I:

- Planted 14 cloves of garlic
- Pulled all the runner and French bean debris off the trellis it had been growing up, finding a few dried out pods hidden on both which I'll keep for planting next year
- Cleared the bed that was full of summer lettuces and filled it with over-wintering red onions
- Pulled up the last few carrots and replaced them with over wintering white onions
- Planted a dozen broads beans in tubs in the greenhouse
- Bought some over wintering pea plants from the garden centre and split them out as there were 10 in the tub. These have also gone in the green house
- Took the trailing fuschias out of the hanging baskets, re-potted them and put them in the green house (fingers crossed they'll make it through for next year) then re-filled the baskets with winter pansies.

[BrideXIII]

Found compost!!!

the old composter was buried under a shrub, so whilst the leaves are off i dragged it out to reposition it, lo and behold it was half full of well rotted ( 6 years) compost.
lovely surprise, and though not a lot will, go a long way towards helping the rubble patch become viable in spring.
refilled composter with rabbit clearings, and will be adding loads of ( well what small amount we ghave) green stuff to balance it out, may even consider getting another one if we do not get over run with ants again.

[Flummery]

Went down the lottie again for another good dig - shame to waste the sunshine. Then I cut the grass path between mine and the next plot. Come home to rest me back!

[KellsSimon]

Today i harvested some cellery that went in the garden ages ago from a supermarket pack that rooted. It lovely and strongly scented and flavoured. I've put it in a big pot with a chicken and bits and bobs for poached chicken for tea! Hurrah!