What I Did Today Archive - 2010

[sarraceniac]

Originally Posted by gilwrig
the hubby built something that defies description to house his sarracenia in.

Why?

Cos he's sad.. no he's very protective of them, they all blew down one year and he was gutted. All the "special ones" are in their own private greenhouse and the more common ones are in the super structure!

Hmm. Very interesting. I grow mine in an old wheelbarrow in one garden and an old bath in another garden. I don't believe in spoiling them.

[Bren In Pots]

I have just had a poke around in the bottom of my dalek and it was positively wriggling with brandlings, yuk and horrah at the same time.
I tried to lift it and I tried to push it over but it isnt budging so it looks like I will have to shovel through the trap door and poke it loose with my twirly fork.

WW I get into my dalek by going around the bottom with a spade sort of prizing it up a little at a time then after a couple of going arounds I can lift the dalek off bit like making a sandcastle.

[weekendwellies]

WW I get into my dalek by going around the bottom with a spade sort of prizing it up a little at a time then after a couple of going arounds I can lift the dalek off bit like making a sandcastle.

Oh right, I will give that a go when my back stops moaning. I can only get at 2 sides though really as it is shoved in a corner. Worth a try though, thanks.

[frogga]

Today I have planted strawberries, pumpkins and sunflowers, raked the lawn overin preperation for its first cut of 2010, then potted on some tomatoes into 9cm pots.

[binley100]

Today I waited for a parcel delivery

[weekendwellies]

Today I waited for a parcel delivery

did it not turn up then?

[binley100]

It did at 3.30 by which time I was so bored I did the housework .

[Bramble_killer]

came home from work and looked at plants. Chilly and grey outside.

[Snadger]

I am off work this week so was at the allotment early. Toshed some white paint on my chook coop and run, until I ran out of paint.

Planted out some Crimson flowered broadies, some Winston spuds in bags, some leeks that I'd grown from grass.
Shifted barrow loads of dressed stone from one end of the allotment to the other and made a stone path in front of my hexagon coop & run.
Staked up my PSB.
Planted some raspberries and a Victoria plum tree. Pruned a gooseberry.

Tidied up my woodpile and generally pottered about watering and weeding.

[Welsh Wizard]

Found oldest child digging up my broad beans and a trail of child size welly prints over the newly transplanted peas plants....

Planted replacement row of peas from self-saved seed, then went and got a load of nice topsoil to add to the new beds which are fairly sandy in parts, and a packet of more leek seeds from a variety that I haven't tried before.

Watered seedlings. Noticed direct sown lettuce seedlings are much happier than transplants, probably my cackhanded efforts at transplanting.

Cheshunt compound + water for trays tonight, as lost a pot of coriander to damping off.

[reetnproper]

Today I sowed 16 sweet peppers, 6 Ailsa Craig tomatoes and 6 Cherry tomatoes to replace the seedlings I lost because I didn't realise that my ever so helpful 3yr old had watered (drowned to be exact) the seedlings that she could reach. I had already sown replacement mangetout on Sunday but didn't realise that she'd watered the others.

I now have 6 out of 17 sweet pepper seedlings, 5 out of 11 Ailsa Craigs and 5 out of 9 Cherry tomato seedlings left which I hope are going to survive.

When did she get to be tall enough to reach? Last week she was a titch!

Reet
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[nerdgas]

Yesterday:

Potted up rainbow pepper, mohawk pepper and some tomatoberry toms.

Today:

Dug two spuds beds and popped in Kestrel and Salad Blue in one bed and Setanta in t'other.

Raked over carrot bed and sowed a row of Early Nantes 5. Then constructed frame and popped insect netting over carrot bed.

Uploaded some more pics to lottie album.

[Newbie]

Tidied up the pots at the front of the house & weeded the driveway, noticed that the large Yukka has snuffed it over the winter. In the Greenhouse sowed 2 lots of seeds - has totally excaped me what they were though!

[Bex]

I finally got the spuds in varieties Nicola and Rooster 3kg of each, back breaking if you ain't used to it.
I also sowed various herbs in pots. Moved chilli's, toms and squashes to the cloche with some fleece on standby.

[hamsterqueen]

I tidied up my raised beds, plnted some salads.

Made up 3 pots for front garden with flowers (they had been stuck waiting to be planted up for about 3 weeks )

planted up potatoes in bags and containers.

remembered I hadn;t logged in to GYO for ages!