What I Did Today Archive 2009

[Mi Jardín]

I re-potted my seedlings that were knocked over in my plastic greenhouse for most of the morning......highly peeved...lesson learnt though!
high winds = move pots off shelf

[greendean]

cleaned out gutters and washed window frames in the snow for an old lady i garden for!

put fleece over seedlings in unheated greenhouse. too cold and wet top do anything else

[kirsty b]

Finally sown something

Due to carp weather and being a bit unwell, have done very little down the plot lately but just had to sow some cut and come again salad in a tray on the kitchen table. Planning to pre-sprout some toms on kitchen paper in the airing cupboard this week too.

Have decided what spuds to grow, so just need to get to the nursery to buy them and get them in the ground!!

[Newbie]

Went to garden centre & bought 10 perennials for £1.45 each, feed for my sickly looking Camelia & some golden Beetroot seeds. As soon as i got home it started snowing / sleeting so didn't get round to doing anything with them!

[Edith]

went up to allotment, but soil too wet to dig or stand on (it snowed here yesterday, lol). Kids normally love it there but wanted to go within 5 minutes so we did. Still nice to be in habit of going up there.

Planted lots of seeds. Mainly tomatoes. We have around 100 tomato seeds planted! Kids wouldn't stop planting the things. Also nasturtiums, radishes, carrots (latter two in window boxes) and a few other bits and pieces. Got potatoes through post (sarpo and orla, both for blight resistance), and put them to chit.

[FionaH]

Laid weed membrane and bark on path behind greenhouse. Went to Lidls and Wilkys and spent too much money.

[Herbie]

Pricked out some cabbage seedlings, put plastic tunnel over soil where I want to plant my peas. Went to Lidl to check out their garden sale. Some good buys to be had

Gave my Nephew a tomatoe plant that he has had his eye on. My Sister has taken it home to him so he can grow it on his bedroom window sill.

[greendean]

sowed spring onions in modules. alpine strawberries, cauliflower and rudbeckia in pots. picked a fight with myself and lost!

[sewer rat]

Today was box day. This week's boxes contain potatoes, carrots, onions, calabrese, land cress and then some or all of the following; parsnips, leeks, sprouts, cabbage, kale, swede and pak choi.
Yesterday I ordered a new T piece for my polytunnel's overhead irrigation system. I phoned First Tunnels at 12:28 and it arrived in the post today - First Class Service

[Flummery]

Pricked out my first sowing of toms and some geranium seedlings. Sowed cabbages in half-tray modules.

[Two_Sheds]

- sowed leeks into my failed celeriac modules. Now I have celeriac and leek coming up in the same place
- planted black chickpeas into paper pots
- sowed Feltham First & Crimson broadies direct with frozen fingers
- dug out another load of couch grass from under a path
- moved some daffs that seem to be migrating
- picked some more wallflowers
- admired Iris Reticulata; more open every day
- dug up a buddleja to move it
- continued hardening off sweet peas
- potted up sweet peppers (germinated in prop)
- took cuttings of dahlias (shooting on windowsill)
- planted shallots direct (Golden Gourmet)
- transplanted self-sown onion seedlings (possibly Red Baron)
- planted a dozen Pink Fir Apple into a raised bed full of well-rotted compost

[pigletwillie]

I am mulling over which pea and bean varieties to grow this year, too many varieties and not enough room.

Sowed chives, more flat parsley and a whole raft of broad beans in pots.

[shirlthegirl43]

I am mulling over which pea and bean varieties to grow this year, too many varieties and not enough room.

Sowed chives, more flat parsley and a whole raft of broad beans in pots.

I finally got myself together and posted your heritage purple peas yesterday Piglet - hope they reach you (and the other grapes I sent to - sorry for the delays) safely.

[womble]

Found two of my six just pricked out pepper seedlings had mysteriously dissapeared in the night. After a calamitous Inspector Clouseau type investigation, it was found that the culprit was a tiny snail that had sneaked in on a pot.

He is now resting in snail heaven, after enjoying a pretty good last meal.

[burnie]

cut the flippin lawns,wish everything else grew as well,hard frost this morning too but it was getting way too long.Did tidy my strawberries as well,nice new growth on them.