What I Did Today Archive 2009

[BumbleB]

Potted on some petunia seedlings and also a few more toms. Rain stopped play for any of the jobs on my list of 10. Rescued some beans squash etc that were outside for their daily harden off when the rain decided to come down by the bucket!

[selfraising]

Not done much as weather has been so awful. Have spent the last half hour or more covering everything up and bringing tender plants indoors as we have a 50% chance of frost here tonight and possibly tomorrow night. The lettuces I'm afraid are going to have to take their chances! On an exciting note tho my french climbing beans have germinated today! They have also come inside!

[Snadger]

After work I sorted the chicks and chooks and then retired to the greenhouse, lit the woodburner and listened to the rain pitter pattering on the roof.
Potted on some orange peppers, some Amish Paste tomatoes, some Alicante toms and some Zebrune shallots.

Then came home to watch the match!

[sewer rat]

At my own place first thing this morning I planted out another two or three hundred onion sets.
Then off to work at estate garden where I sowed grass seed on the areas I have cleared of ivy in front of the holiday cottages. Then sowed the edges of these areas with a wildflower mix.
After this I sprayed off the nettles ,thistles and docks in two of the horse paddocks
Spread fert on the two areas of established lawn at the side of Shepherds Cottage.
Earthed up tatties, weeded peas, garlic, strawberries.
Planted another twenty onion sets for them.
Started to box in a flower bed just behind the walled garden - this was originally just a nursery area but now has so many nice things in it, they want to make it into a proper bed, so using roof timbers from old barn - should get it finished tomorrow.

[Newbie]

Sowed a second lot of courgettes, pumpkins & sunburst marrows as the first lot didn't germinate. Second time lucky.

[bustertom]

Not done much today with the weather being so awful. Had another late night trip out to catch slugs and snails. Where dothey all come from?

Clare

[Meschuee]

I've just erected the bean wigwam with canes a neighbour gave me. I improved the soil with sand and grit and have added blood, fish & bone meal. Will wait a couple of weeks before planting the beans.



Bought garden mint - I'm a great mint fan - and like to have different sorts in the garden, not minding if it spreads.

Penny

[gojiberry]

Scraped the ice off the windscreen this morning and was thankful that I didn't plant out the dwarf french beans yesterday as I had planned on doing. Haven't been round the lottie yet to see how the potatoes faired.

Ian

[Newbie]

After 2 days rain i was finally able to re-commence turf stripping, i did make a start last weekend but the ground soon turned to rock in the sunny weather. Still at least another 2 sessions worth of stripping before its all done, then there is the digging

[selfraising]

When I got in from work, planted out row of germinated French breakfast radishes. Sowed more leeks for a friend and found a gap in my raised bed so sowed a row of baby carrot Ideal Red. Covered everything up as we have a more than 80% risk of frost tonight.

[Lottieval]

Potted up flower plantlets from T&M, pricked out 40 Ladybird Poppies and 40 Purple Peony Poppies, these are annuals supposed to be sown direct but I've sown them in the GH so I can give some to friends. Pricked out rocket, mizuna and salad bowl lettuce, found a few more friends willing to adopt tomato and courgette plants, getting desperate for space.

[Jenny22Cumbria]

Today I bought French Marigolds and sweet peas and a few canes from BnQ. Put the marigolds between my tomatoes in the greenhouse in an effort to ward off whitefly and gave the sweet peas a good soak - half of them were really dry and shrivelled looking. When the weather gets a bit better I'll plant them between the beans on the plot to add a bit of colour and attract pollinating insects.

It rained most of the day today so I didn't have to water any of the sedlings out on the plot but I had a bit of a potter in the little greenhouse and admired all my seedlings

[newmannewy]

im new

I wheel barrowed 2 tonnes of 10m screened top soil round the back garden and mixed in some manure and organic grow stuff. Ready for planting somthing.

- no idea what because im totally new and have never grown a thing in my life before.

[marmalade]

today I've found this forum (I suspect this is going to be as addictive as the actual gardening ), thought about an allotment again, and thought about where I'm going to plant my plants and what new containers I'm going to get

I'm off sick at the moment and laid up in bed so that's as much as I can do!

[Meschuee]

I covered my little Victoria plum tree with netting to protect the tiny plums that are beginning to form. Was given another pumpkin seed, "Atlantic Giant", at the nursery where I volunteer.

Earthed up potatoes that needed it.