What I Did Today Archive - 2010

[Welsh Wizard]

Started third sowing of sweetcorn: late frost and pigeons have knackered everything sweetcorn related so far, and I am getting desperate! So 40x 3 inch pots made ready and sown with old favourite Golden Bantham. Pigeon responsible fortuitously has been executed by neighbour's high velocity dog. Extra sausage for good doggie next BBQ!

Sown more leek (late I know), and weeded fruit bushes in containers. Watered everything: this spring has been more drought than downpour. Planted out some greenhouse grown salads: I need the space for my second sowing of toms that are outgrowing the indoor space I have. Tomato plants seem indestructible: The first batch have been out for weeks now and have survived some pretty nippy/frosty temperatures, bird attacks, insects and clumsy kids: I think if they are grown hard they are quite resistant.

Started off some more dwarf beans and climbing beans, just in case: some are well up already but the rows are quite patchy and that bothers me, so spares are good to fill in the gaps.

Oriental mustards are looking good, and the container grown carrots are looking good too.

[Suky]

Planted the Cucumbers, peppers and aubergine in the greenhouse. Planted out four more successional lettuce. Bought some more runner bean seeds as some failed earlier this year.

[Snadger]

Potted up the rather sorry looking specimens of chrysanthemum cuttings I just received from Woolmns!

They were tiny and 'just a say' rooted!

[sewer rat]

Today is my wedding anniversary and me and the missus were supposed to be going out tonight - table booked, baby sitter sorted etc etc (and my wife is currently sat in the hairdressers), However, when we got up this morning both the girls were coughing like lunatics and had high temperatures. On top of that, the wife now has an urgent hymn sheet to design and print off for a big funeral tomorrow (the guy who invented the hole in the wall cash machines died on Monday) and the printer is playing up etc etc etc. Anyway, this morning I agreed to only do a half day, then come home and look after the girls and take them into the garden and get a bit of work done out there. However, I am sat in front of the puter hand folding, inserting and stapling 400 x 8 page hymn sheets - all because the printer has thrown a moody one.

[Currysniffa]

Today I went up the lottie about 10am, I put the last of my spuds in ( I know there late) and put my bean poles up, came home sowed some more carrots and potted some beetroot on, then did the school run and took my son to his swimming class, I'm now sat on the sofa with lappy on my knee waiting for my dear wife to finish cooking our tea..

Not a bad life

[Two_Sheds]

- watered the garlic & peas
- pricked out 40 black viola (own seed)
- split & potted up some herbs for a colleague
- split oregano into 4 clumps to make a herby hedge
- sowed more winter greens
- planted out a tray of lettuce & neighbour's courgettes & sweetcorn (10 of each!)
- planted out a dozen Tiger Eye French beans
- sowed Cobra beans direct
- started hardening off sweetcorn
- weeded lots of chickweed & bindweed
- planted out dahlia, cosmos & African marigolds at home
- sowed 2 rows of Profita pea
- watered the wilting strawbs & comfrey
- made 6 bottles of comfrey tea
- picked lots of salad for dinners
- racked all the wine (dandelion, celery, carrot & blackberry at the mo)
- started a batch of elderberry & redcurrant wine from the freezer

[NewbieGardenerRow]

Today I put up some short canes and 2 rows of string for my broadies then spent and hour and a half de-stoning my rotten soil in the garden.
I'm sure a skip arrives in the night and dumps a load out there!

Whilst de-stoning I spied some tiny pea shoots popping up but also unearthed a few by mistake

I also crushed up some egg shells to sprinkle around the wigwam of greenhouse grown peas to hopefully keep the slimy beasts away but I may still revert to the slug pellets.

I have dug over my runner bean bed and will be putting the canes up for them later but for now....back to the de-stoning <SIGH>

[Florence Fennel]

Watered the courgettes, tomatoes, peas and coriander - they were really dry after all that sun today.

[Bren In Pots]

We've spent the day draining our fish pond it went OK with the last few inches then it had to be bucketed out. Next job is to fill in the huge hole then that area will be my new veg plot

[bramble]

Rat, I hope the girls are feeling a little better. My granddaughter Ciara had the same thing, which ended with a visit to the doctor and an antibiotic for a chest infection.
Hope you and your Mrs managed to celebrate never the less.

[hawthorns]

enjoying a crafty glass of wine sat on the hammock swing. planted out calabrese, borlotto beans did some hoeing

[chengjing]

Today I plant out runners beans, french beans, some squash, PSB, Pak chai, pink celery, Kai Lan, leek, and watered all veg beds.

Forget about sunflowers, achocha, morning glory, wonder berry, tomatilos, phyisalis. Keep finger crossed.

[binley100]

Greenhouse toms now all in final placings. Potted on peppers .
Went to work

[Newbie]

Yesterday I pulled 3 sticks of Rhubarb, 2 baby Pak Choi & Chives, also sowed purple & green basil.

[selfraising]

Planted third growbag with toms. Planted mexican gherkin to climb over arch. Also planted a cucumber, pepper plant and chilli. Have quite a bit more to go in but ran out of time. Gave everything a good water.