What I Did Today Archive - 2010

[crazii_c]

ive had a busy day today. ive made my own mincemeat, which should have enough time for the flavours to mix before i use it at Xmas. Also made some jars of bramley lemon curd, its deeelish! then i also tried making vanilla fudge for the first time, just waiting for it too cool now.

[Two_Sheds]

- took 6 bags of scraps to the lotty compost bins
- picked chard & kale
- picked up 3 sacks of autumn leaves
- planted out 50 spring bulbs I found in the shed
- ate half a Uchiki Kuri stuffed with nuts, onion, pesto & cheese
- set mousetraps in the garage, baited with Sunpat

[tiachica]

baked Stollen.

[Liza]

Roughly dug over beds for pots, bunged on manure and covered with black plastic.

Mulched Raspberrys with a good few inches of leaves.

I was the only person at the lottie so had a natter with my very tame friend Mr Robin and fed him a few worms.

[binley100]

Dug up 3 mahoosive and 2 small parsnips. Attended a committe and site meeting. Scrubbed, peeled and cut up parsnips ready to prepare for the freezer.
Work stopped play...........

[Snadger]

Patched up broken glass on my greenhouse roofs. This damm snows got a lot to answer for!

[ilex]

Convinced my boss that I actually did WANT the cardboard they were going to recycle for my allotment. I don't think she believes I'm 20 and have an allotment

[solway cropper]

A balmy 6 degrees here today so, after two weeks of snowbound inactivity, I cracked on and did quite a bit of clearing/tidying. Managed to extend the asparagus bed to allow me to put another three crowns in next spring. That'll give me 15 which should be enough for the two of us plus the odd guest (and some of them are very odd )

After that I chucked doggy in the car and drove round the coast where I got two sacks of seaweed. Could have got more but only two empty sacks in the car boot. There's piles of it been pushed up by the tides so I'll have a run out next week with more sacks.

Got that nice warm glow that you get after a spell working outside. OH says I'm easily pleased.

[stella]

Picked loads of greenery from the garden, holly, ivy and something else( no idea what) and decorated the house. I think it looks great. Roll on Christmas

[Loudbarker1]

Today (well, yesterday) I dug leeks, swedes and carrots and we had them for supper with roast chicken

[Two_Sheds]

- taped bubblewrap to the greenhouse. Bubblewrap all fell off. Taped it up with stronger tape. BW all fell off again
- threw out the gh plants that have died/not taken (basil, a couple of fuchsias)
- refilled birdfeeders with homemade suet cakes
- watered the indoor plants & squished loads of greenfly again

[frogga]

Raked leaves again, covered veg patch in leaves to be dug in next week, cut all the raspberry canes down, dug a couple of parsnips for tonights dinner and now im about to sort out the seed box, ready for next years planning.

[Snadger]

Another fun day at the allotment.

Filled a wine making barrel with warm water as I new all my water buts and the chooks water tubs would be frozen. Loaded into car along with a sck barow to push the damm thing (cripes they are heavy when full of water)
Had a large bag of layers pellets already in the car so when I got to allotment I loaded both pellets and water barrel on to sack barrow and scuttled down a very steep icy bank to the lottie.
Just gave each water receptacle a dose of warm water on top of its existing ice and the chooks tucked in like they had never seen water for a month.
Broke the ice on Sids water and to thank me he attcked me two footed. Threatened him telling him he would become Christmas dinner and he backed off a bit.
Chooks watered, feed receptacles filled up and eggs collected it was time to turn my attention to the damaged greenhouses.
Gave the chooks some marrows which had got frosted in the shed.
For safety reasons I spent a good half hour breaking glass into small pieces and loading into a large bucket.
Loaded the bucket of glass, the empty beer barrel and todays eggs onto the sack barrow and set off back home from the frozen wastes.

[Currysniffa]

Not been down to my plots for a couple of weeks I don't have anything in the ground at the mo so went swimming, did a mile in just under a hour, that's the quickest I've done it since I was 18 lol

[wellie]

Stella,I couldn't better your style if I tried.......
Wishing all of you, each and every one a really lovely Christmas......
I'm gathering in bits of holly and ivy to decorate the farmhouse, and two or three times each day feeding and really so importantly 'watering' my garden birds.

Did you know that your garden birds need to eat the equivalent of a third of their own body weight each and every day in these tough times just to survive? and they need to be able to splutter about and wash themselves in a birdbath of unfrozen water when everything around them is frozen solid. It's SO important for fluffing their feathers out and keeping them alive, so please, please keep putting fresh water out for them....X