What I Did Today Archive - 2010

[Newbie]

Strolled around my garden admiring it - well, sometimes you've just got to....

[pipscariad]

A really beautiful spring day here. Finished digging the onion bed and got in all my onion sets (growing Corrado and Hercules this year - Corrado did really well for me last year). 15 rows of onions altogether .

Yesterday I did yet more digging, helped by OH, and DD planted a row of carrots - our prize from the Snowman competition!

Lots of my seeds in the airing cupboard are chitting - tomorrow's job is to get them into pots....

[rustylady]

Nice day (day off from work - suns out). Cleared up all the "permanent" big pots of fuchsias, mint, etc. Tipped more used compost onto the borders. Bit of weeding. Sat in front of computer - BIG MISTAKE - need to get moving again.

[sarraceniac]

Sat in front of computer - BIG MISTAKE - need to get moving again.

You've gone rusty?

[rustylady]

You've gone rusty?

No, just lazy. Anyway I did get off my bum and back into the garden. Re-fixed the polycarb panels in the greenhouse that had blown out (not completely, just enough to be a nuisance). Cleaned said greenhouse. Did some more tidying, and watered a couple of pots and trays that had somehow dried out. Chillies and tomatoes doing nicely on the kitchen windowsill.

[Brengirl]

Surprise surprise. It's our 53rd Wedding Anniversary today and OH forgot
Never mind I found an old christmas card from him and did a bit of editing lol.
I know he wouldn't have put up with me for that long if he didn't love me. Awww

[carlseawolf]

here's some pics of the new bed and peach tree at the lottie.
the peach tree is below the wooden cross.

[nerdgas]

Started re-turfing the bare bit of the garden that used to have the shed above it before I moved it.

Good God it's bloody boring!!!!!!!!

I wanna be up the lottie but it's gotta be done sometime.

Oh and I noticed that the celeriac I sowed on the 11th is germinating already! The instructions from the packet advised placing them on the top of the soil and leaving them uncovered. So I did this and chucked them in the prop and have been misting the surface of the soil on a daily basis, as I read on here that they lurve water, and it seems to have done the trick as the seeds are sprouting. Is six days quick as I thought this stuff took an age to germinate.

Oh and I have noticed that the Ideal carrots that I sowed about 2 or so weeks ago appear to be coming through. Have them in a container in the back garden with one of those water bottle cloches over them and they are coming up. To be honest with all the cold weather we've been having I thought I had no chance of them sprouting!

So all in all a rather surprising and rewarding day (Oh and my current employers told me that they want to extend my contract for a further six months so that was good! - I'm a short term IT contractor by trade).

[Newbie]

This afternoon i have lightly forked over what will be the roots bed & covered it in fleece ready for seed sowing in a week or two. After that i weeded & chopped in the flower bed in front of the greenhouse - filled 2 trugs full, then i spread a bag of manure over it & forked it over. After that i edged the bed - it actually looks like someone owns it now! Was also pleased to see that many of the plants in there are starting to spring into life, also lots of bulbs making an appearence.

[selfraising]

Today I potted on some seedlings and sowed some more peas.

[ginger ninger]

Today I sowed my sweet pea's and tomatillo's and planted out some broad bean plants.

[Bren In Pots]

I've potting on seedlings, tomato, cabbage, lettuce and basil, then set some parsnips in loo rolls.

[wellie]

Potted on my tomatoes and calabrese seedlings, and went out into the adjacent field, picking up Sheep Poo for making into a free liquid feed for this years' crops.

Yesterday, having filled my noo Salad Bar with the contents of last years' Pumpkin Tub compost mix (well rotted FYM and JI No.3. I also tipped on the compost from my Tomato, Pepper & Aubergine 'Buckets) and, I then today sowed short rows of: Scallions, CCA, Rocket, Corn Salad, Little Gem, Radish and Pea Shoots.
If nothing else, Trousers and I will be up to our armpits in fresh 'slug-free' Bunny Grub for a while! X

[jacob marley]

I planted some money today explanation we are having a competition to grow the biggest crop of spuds from 1 tuber tubers cost 50p and the winner takes the pot and i have a lot of spare comfrey tea left over from last season.
I managed to cut my spud into four so we having a go and the crop to be dug by committee on August the 27th ..jacob

[Nicos]

Sowed carrots,beetroot,radish,onions and shallots,spring onions,mitzuna, poached egg flowers and marigolds....outside, direct into the ground!!!...yey- the growing season has started!!!!