What I Did Today Archive 2009

[Two_Sheds]

Warm again today, but we always have a cooling breeze: it's deceptive. I still burnt even with factor 25 on.

- spent an hour deadheading the neighbour's weeds (he's in hospital)
- spent another hour digging out bramble roots
- planted out a tray of Lark sweetcorn (weedy looking things, but I need the room)
- planted out 6 Swift (the only ones to germinate out of two packs)
- planted out 10 x Serbian french beans
- started off Ruth Bible, Birds Egg, Cranberry, Cherokee and Yin Yang frenchies in a cold water soak
- bought 3 cream geraniums as my cuttings are taking forever
- watered the hanging baskets with last night's bath water
- mowed the lawn and the darn wheel sheared off the mower. Back to Lidl tomorrow
- picked a modest handful of sweet peas
- mulched my spuds with wet cardboard, topped with soil

[butter fingers]

today i have potted more tomatoes in to metal waste paper bins, 3 chillis potted, sown some basil, more mizuna , pulled more radishes.at the allotment spent more time chatting than doing but weeded last part of onion bed and watered sweetcorn and leek seedlings.

[Meschuee]

Too delivery of my neighbour's seedlings to look after while she's away. Pulled a kohl rabi for supper, garlic and some winter cabbage.

Watered last night as it's so hot during the day.

Penny

[Snadger]

Planted out half a tray of Incredible F1 sweetcorn in a clump. Only 1.5 trays to find room for now. Planted out Safari french beans in a clump. Planted out shallots grown from seed in a clump.
Lifted one of my Duke of York spuds to get a handful of marble sized tubers.
Did loads of weeding on hands and knees. Got sunburned calves.
Sorted outbroody chook.
Planted 10 Blue Lake climbing french beans and about half a dozen butter beans.
Spent 1.5 hours watering with watering can *Note to self.......must remember to take hose to lottie*
Carrots are finally showing through after 14 days!

Harvested leeks and a hearty spring cabbage for the sunday dinner!

[sewer rat]

At my own place drenched the tunnel again, watered stuff at posh walled garden then back to the "work in progress walled garden. In the paddock area where I have already put in 50kg Charlotte and 50 kg Rooster potatoes, I sowed approx 500m of Autumn King Carrots and in the proper veg patch I planted out Red Drumhead Cabbage, Golden Acre Primo Cabbage, Snowball Cauliflower, Marathon Calabrese (approx 50 - 60 of each) and sowed 4 x 10m rows of Autumn King Carrots, 2 x 10m rows of Purple Top Milan Turnips and, after resurrecting an old pea netting frame, about 20m of Onward Peas.
Back to my own place at about 3 pm, soaked strawberries in hanging baskets, watered all the Tumbling Toms in 5 litre pots, watered everything that gets watered via sunken pots (toms, cukes and chillies). Left polytunnel doors open - too hot to close them and I'm on babysitting duyt tonight til I go to work at 10pm, so they'll be open all night - just hope the rabbits don't realise this

[coreopsis]

Nothing except watering(warm and dry here).Stuck at work today and yesterday
Off tomorrow and couple of days after

[Topcat36]

Managed a bit in garden OH cut lawn , painful to watch he just doesn't do it my way. Removed the dwarf beans from mini GH don't think it's worth trying to save them , before i went in hospital they were lovely so going to pick the best of them and do some more. Rescued more seeedlings brussels are ok lots dead but saves thinning i guess, only jokng. Have asked OH to bring paste table up from garage and i should be able to work at that height, should be able to do more sowing etc.

[Professor Peabody]

Put together another raised bed which wil house the PSB and savoy cabbages, weeded the pea bed and staked up those that had been knocked over by the foxes, planted out the toms and attacked the overgrown area of the plot with my new scythe.

[miffy]

Put in the frame from son and heir old bed which was wood, truely is a raised bed! He is going to grow his own in it. Weeded around crops, put up another frame for some borlotto bean seedlings, put in my leek seedlings the lovely grapes sent me.
Had a good tidy up, listened to the archers and drank some tea and then watered things in before i came home.

[maytreefrannie]

Planted out 5 butternut squash
Planted out 3 courgette plants
Potted up peppers to 3" individual pots
Potted up 3 Tumbling Toms to bigger pots

Feeling sort of happy with my day today, especially as I saw some small pods on the 'early' broad beans (there are only 5 plants, stared off indoors and planted out in March). It was great to see the first beans coming along.

The bulk of b/beans (about 30) were sown in March and are now about 5" high.

[selfraising]

Today I went overseas and tidied the other side of my pond
Sowed califlower aalsmeer and savoy cabbage. Think I may have lost one pepper. However, when I dug it up from it's pot, the root system still looked quite healthy, so repotted in fresh compost, will wait and see what happens. Potted two melon sweetheart plants in their final pots and in placcie gh. Cut back shoots on my grapevine and generally tidied up.

[shoreham_steve]

Drenched everything that was baked dry in yesterdays sunshine while I was at the FA Cup Final, therefore neglecting the veg - but it was worth it !
Picked a few peas and broad beans for a risotto - off to the kitchen now !

[Mustard]

Spent all day in the garden, recovering from my stag-do yesterday. Potted on tomatoes, chillies, peppers, cucumber, courgettes.
Planted out some early-sweet sweetcorn.
Head still a little sore.

[Mrs Dobby]

Got to the plot early, before it got too hot, rotovated 3 beds, planted out the last 60 of the onions from seed, sowed 24 runner beans direct, sowed a double run of peas (10') and set up pea sticks, sowed a run of chard bright lights (10') and a run of spinach (8'). sorted out the tomato supports in both the greenhouses and tied them up, built a cucumber support frame and tied the cuke up it, then went to the allotment society AGM.

Found myself nominated as the new chairperson, so not only a plot holder, beekeeper, working full time, but am also now a chairperson! Eeeek!

After that went back to the plot and planted out 17 sunflowers and 6 outdoor tomatoes, then watered in the greenhouses, then decided it was time to come home after 9 1/2 hours in the sun!

Only 2 prepped beds left to plant now, plus 2 1/2 beds to dig and plant!

[King Carrot]

After putting up a couple of plastic tunnels yesterday, I started putting in the toms today - Because the ground inside had been flattened while putting them up I needed to dig over to loosen it up and then dig in a bit of fertilizer, in the excessive heat I flagged out mid afternoon having got about 13 of 25 in, planning to start early in the morning and hopefully finish getting the rest of the earlier toms in the ground.

After that I need to earth up some spuds but at least that's outside !