What I Did Today Archive 2009

[janeyo]

So far today I have:

Dug a bit more of the new bed area.
Turned 2 compost bins.
Moved 2 types of salad leaves from cold frame to green house as they are up and looking good.
Moved red fuego cabbage from landing window - cold - to cold frame.
Painted the modifications to the chicken run.
Pulled the manky old leaves from the PSB.

[inearlygaveup]

Pruned hedges.............
Cut some turf to try making a traditional turf wall

hi Kendall
I have lots of turf that I have just cut, how do you make a “traditional turf wall” it sounds just what I want............any info appreciated

[pigletwillie]

Today was free as I was laid off (again) on Friday. A trip to the post office saw seeds go to Essex, Canada, Michigan (USA), France and Lancashire.

As a bonus and an earner of vast numbers of brownie points, I built Kazzi a cupboard in her craft room complete with latching doors and 3 shelves. A spell in the greenhouse saw some brassicas sown along with some early carrots in pots.

[Two_Sheds]

Today I pruned all my autumn raspberries to the ground (a bit early ... the book says late winter or early spring) but it was a fine afternoon & it felt good to be outside.
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Dug up the summer ones to compost because I hate them, actually

[Flummery]

I potted up some gorgeous variegated Ivy I rooted in water (been there since before Christmas) and I pricked out a tray of 24 onion seedlings.

[BrideXIII]

sowed 8 varieties of chillis/peppers for the moon trials, and some cukes, courgettes and lettuce, all in propagators.

gazed longingly out into a garden still being rained on

[pigletwillie]

A second visit to the workshop got the Chrismas tree, 2 boxes of decorations and 4 extra dining room chairs put back up on the mezzanine. A basket full of kindling made from offcuts of wood left over from the cupboard and the staircase spindles made a bit more space.

Finally I got my seed boxes down onto the workbench ready for a bit of a sort through later tonight.

[FionaH]

Filled raised bed, moved leeks soooo tired

[Snadger]

Smugtrug time!!! Went to lottie collected 8 eggs, 3 large leeks,2 swedes,a large bunch of carrots,a boiling of brussel sprouts,a cabbage,half a carrier bag of stored onions including red de florence and ham onions.

Washed them in the bath I have at the lottie as her indoors likes her veg to look like they came from Tesco's.........my hands were numb with cold by the time I came away!

Called in at Instores on the way home where I purchased white onion sets and two types of shallot sets (99p a pack) to go with my 2 packs of onion sets I already had.

[Two_Sheds]

I also dug up my blackcurrant plants, because the ground is now hopelessly infested with couch grass coming under the fence from next door's overgrown allotment.
I will clean the roots, and plant them somewhere else

[King Carrot]

I planted about 90 chitted peas(Kelvedon Wonder) in the home made polytunnel plastic/wood & caravan window greenhouse - hope to be eating peas in May. Also carried on repairing the "picture frame" cold frames which got trashed in the recent gales. Then it started to rain, again!


cheers,

KC

[Newbie]

Finally planted my three Autumn Raspberry Canes that have been sat in a bucket in the kitchen for over a week.

[bramble]

Have 6 window boxes and 8 pots of strawberries which I left out over the winter.
Brought them into the cold greenhouse today and cut off all the old rotted leaves.
The alpine strawberry plants have a few little fruits and some blossom on.
Two daffs just opening and my first crocus.
Was like a spring day today and enjoyed being out and about again.

[janeyo]

Tonight I couldn't resist tempation and have sowed 6 varieties of chilli (5 hot, one mild), 2 types of sweet peppers into heated prop.

[MaureenHall]

I've had a lovely day One of the lovely guys from the lottie came down and helped me (or rather I helped him) to finally get my greenhouse up . The base it's on isn't very level so that needs to be sorted out before I can even think about putting the glass in it, but hey! it's been in the garden since August waiting to be finished! It was a big help having firstimer1 here a few weeks ago when we made a start on putting the sides together before we got confused (no instructions!)