What I Did Today Archive 2008

[Hazel at the Hill]

Went to the Hill today armed with tools in order to reassemble the tool store/shed that I have been given by a VERY KIND allotmenteer.

I now have - with the exception of some new felt, hinges and a lick of fence paint - a wonderful shed. It is perfect - I love it.

Happy Haze.

[SarzWix]

Within the last week I have

• Cleaned out the greenhouse
• Put new weed suppressant on greenhouse floor
• Finished the raspberry bed, & planted out Glen Ample & AllGold
• Marked out & dug over a new bed next to the front fence
• Planted out blackcurrants, redcurrants & blackthorn hedging into new bed
• Bought 4 bags of topsoil & 3 bags of compost & transported them down a very long path in a wheelbarrow - I now have 'monkey arms'
• Planted 2 apple trees & a cherry tree in pots with the above mentioned topsoil & compost!

[muckdiva]

What a beautiful day, just right for the overdue job of cleaning out the greenhouse. Washed all the glass and turfed out all the rubbish. Now it's ready for some seedlings!

[roitelet]

Superb day with brilliant sunshine yesterday so I finished pruning the trees and shrubs. I sorted all the old sticks that I had salvaged last year consigning the brittle ones to the kindling pile and sorted all the prunings into useable sticks for future use., The Willow, some of which is 8ft long I am going to make into woven pyramids for the sweetpeas. small twiggy bits stored for pea sticks, and the real rubbish shredded and put on the compost heap.

Started digging out the smelly grass mowings and dumping it on the veg plot to help conserve moisture. I know that there is no nutrient in it but the chickens have spent the winter on that particular bit so will have done their bit. The rest of the plot will get the proper compost.

A few more days like this and I will be able to get some real digging done.

Memo - must ask the farmer for some dung and straw.

[Flummery]

I've given a good drink to my new strawberry plants which arrived on Saturday while I was away for the weekend. I'm potting them up when I've finished gassing here!

[moggssue]

Was great just to be out in the sunshine yesterday and listen to the birds tweeting!! Dug out the first three beds on my new lottie, planted garlic on half of one of them, swopped names with new man on lottie next door (his name now forgotten already ....) then back home to a g&t and a chat with my tiny baby leek seedlings!

[momol]

Fixed our bamboo shield with the help of DH. Set up some wire structure for the climbing plant. Saw the fruit tree and the berry bushes waking up from their winter sleep.
Clear up some oak leaves, manure the tomato bed and harvested some over wintered radish.

[lottielady]

Been to my lottie today and totally realised why it is so great, fresh air, birds, sunshine and lots of great stuff to grow over the next few months what more could anyone want!!!

[gardenplot]

Had a fantastic weekend the weather was lovely, some friends came round and we had a BBQ Saturday afternoon, "yes in February" bet my neighbours thought we were mad.
Had a hangover all day Sunday so didn’t do anything, but made up for it today been a busy bee, empted & sieved all 3 compost bins in to raised beds put chip bark paths down and now all up and running ready for planting, still got some little jobs to do before finished.
Planted out some carrot seeds and made a fleece cloche to protect them, had a lovely soak in the bath and now just going to chill out.

[veg4681]

My first entry

After months of shying away, finally decided to make an entry here . Seems like a useful way of keeping my own record of GYO and garden activities .

For the record, yesterday I dug up the farm field for new veggie plot and possibly berry bed for raspberries, tayberry, Karaka blackberry and thimbleberry. Had originally planned for overall 20x6 feet plot but could extend to 10 of 6x4 feet beds as the area has to be fenced off to make allowances for future expansion if desired.

Today replanted the autumn bulbs that had been a total disaster last year. This time planted iris, gladioli, freesia and crocosmia lucifer very close together (tightly) in a smallish pot. Hope I've got it right this time, if not can always rearrange them for Autumn flowering.

Replanted last year's 3 strawberry runners in window box to make comparison with other 2 boxes that has 4 and 5 each of runners.

Planted the Woolworth un-named variety blueberry in the pot that already had Patriot blueberry as they're both smallish (long way to go ) and pot is somewhat big.

Planted a second Red currant (Jonkheer van Tets) in a pot with blackcurrant (Ben Lomond) (both from Woolies) to take up to Scotland in Summer for growing in the garden there.

Also potted the 4 raspberry canes (Glen Ample) from Woolies before they're ready to be planted in the farm field.

[FoxHillGardener]

Sowed tomatoes Ildi, Tigerella, Purple Russian and Sungella. Then went to Lidl's and bought another load of seeds that I don't need - like "need" ever had anything to do with buying more seeds

[Hazel at the Hill]

Stamped around in a grump when I discovered that Lidl will be selling plantapak 40 pot trays from Thursday for £1.99 when I paid £5.99 at Wyevale GC a couple of weeks ago, then sowed 15 square black 3" pots with 4 peas each. The plan is to plant out each pot a few inches apart against a strong mesh 'tent' at the beginning of next month.

[bobleponge]

I woke up this morning in the cool Saharan desert air, with an enormous smile on my face, as yesterday I finally bought a greenhouse. Friday-ads came up a treat. Have already tasked my son to go down and collect it for me, and then thats a perfect excuse for him to come across and see his dad. (Plus he can help me put it up too) so I win all round.
Now its just going to be work that spoils my day, as always

[TonyF]

Apart from a quick foray into a garden centre for a couple of trugs and 4 packets of seeds, I spent yesterday in Perigueux looking for a spacialist maker and supplier of trailers - essential piece of kit down here in rural France and I've been after one for ages. Sale time in the remorque maker/suppliers so got one a bit bigger than I intended for the same price (he threw in a good cover as well) and managed to get it home safely.

Now have to remove the rest of the front hedge, about 20m long (our frontage is 44 meters, all of which is hedge) and replace it with something different, far too dense wild box atm but at least I've got something to take the rubbish away in, move the wood we recently cut etc.

[pigletwillie]

I dropped into the allotments on the way home from work this morning and was there at 7.30am. It was brilliant, so quiet and both sunny and frosty at the same time.

After putting the kettle on I started to plant the last 6 Lidl fruit trees that now make a fruit cordon fence to the front of plot 1. After a big mug of coffee I finished laying slabs that now form a path between us and our plot neighbour on plot 2. The robin and blackbird were pestering me to dig so I lifted a wedge of leeks to make chicken and leek pies with, disturbing enough soil to give them an easy meal.