What I Did Today Archive - 2010

[binley100]

Paddled up t'lottie........... Picked veg for dinner, did a bit of faffing . Came home made two alcoholic blackberry and apple crumbles (using berries left from straining the blackberry brandy,) and will now go and prepare the veg I fished out this morning. Meat is already cooking away nice and slow with red onions and red wine.....

[Newbie]

This weekend i made a start on weeding & chopping in the flower bed in front of the decking - plenty more to be done but the ground really is too wet to be walking on. I also made a batch of Apple & Chilli Jelly - 1st attempt at this and really rather pleased with it, and a batch of Damson & Apple Jelly. That is now all of my scrumped freebie fruits processed - 6lbs Damsons (Jam, Jelly & Gin) and many lbs apples (Jam, Jelly, Crumble).

[Croila]

I picked the last of the runner beans and I'm really disappointed that's them done now! Can't wait to get cracking on them again next year.

I also sowed green manure (winter grazing rye) in the tattie patch. Thinking of growing tatties there again next year as my garden just isn't big enough, or rather have enough sunny spots to practise crop rotation as diligently as I'd like

[Two_Sheds]

- collected more leaves from the bike lane, for the school's lasagne bed
- cut down & composted all the tomato foliage (2 binliners full). Got a litre of toms to chutney now
- shelled 3 carrier bags of French beans for the freezer
- pulled all foliage off remaining French beans, to try and ripen the rest a bit
- sowed a row of peas (self-saved mongrels)
- pulled up 3 bendy buckets of chickweed and grass on lotty
- and 4 buckets of grass & weeds at home
- planted out a tray of wallflowers, realised I should've pricked them out months ago

[rustylady]

Started a batch of ginger wine. The rosehip brew is fizzing nicely now.

[Bren In Pots]

Collected my first leaves of the season.

[lottieanne]

Made my first homegrown tomato soup tom's, onions and chilli all grown by yours truly :-)

[Suky]

Havested the last tomatoes and peppers plus a few beans. Cleared all the tomato and cucumber plants from the greenhouse, just need son to lift out the old growbags for me as strapped up wrist makes this a little difficult. Hope to have it all washed down and ready for the christmas spuds to move in by the weekend.

[binley100]

Emptied out some more pots from the GH and outside. Home dalek is full so now there are two bags waiting to go to lottie compost heap. Spread the used compost over where I took up the old garden path.

[StephenH]

Yesterday, I prepared a new compost trench in the greenhouse for next year's toms and chillies by filling the trench with some of my most mature compost and putting a layer of soil on top. Then, having been reminded by a book that it is possible to sow lettuce under cover now for harvesting during winter and spring, I sowed a single row of 'Cardinale' red crisphead lettuce along the top of the trench, as a catch-crop to be cleared before next year's toms and chillies go in. 'Cardinale' is from Real Seeds, the only people who now stock it. It's very tasty, but not really very red when it's full size: light green with a faint red tinge, really. Next year, I'm growing 'Amorina', a red loose-head 'Lollo Rossa' type. Judging by photos, this one really is red, not just red-tinged. What it tastes like remains to be seen: since ordering it, I've read, in two different books, that loose-head lettuces can be a bit bland. We shall see.

[buzzingtalk]

Went foraging - got some sloes, blackberries, rosehip and elderberries. A good haul of them

Cut down tomato plants and annual herbs, bought some garlic for planting out.

Today I'm gonna have a good clear out in my garden, move everything about and make room for my 6 blueberry plants i ordered

[lottieanne]

Well did a bot more stripping of grass, digging and weeding. The patch is getting to be of some size now. Planted some garlic and onions just so I feel I have actually achieved something on the land rather than just dig weed dig weed dig weed :-)
Made apple pie with some raisins and cinnamon in yummy

[Two_Sheds]

- weeded front garden for 2 hrs
- took weeds to school daleks because mine are all full
- dug up 4 of my young fuchsias and planted out at school for some colour
- dug up and divided primroses, got at least four out of each clump
- dug up and pricked out 80 self sown nigella
- made green tomato chutney with 10 chillies
- gave away all my mild chillies, they're horrible. composted the plants
- hoovered the gh, washed lots of pots, trays & labels, evicted a dozen slugs from under the trays
- chitted Violetta broad beans (then realised I meant to do Aquedulce)
- chitted Aquedulce & Super Aquedulce, more peas & sweet peas
- planted garlic, broadies, peas & sweet peas with school Garden Club
- ordered hot-weather lettuce & sundries from Real Seeds
- made a plan, kind of, for next year's crops
- collected 3 more sacks of leaves, mixed with grass clippings
- cut all foliage off squashes. Poor show this year. Brought an unripe butternut home for dinner
- dug some parsnips, again not great (not many, and forked)
- consoled myself with roast veg & the first stuffed BNS
- forgot to sow radish

[zeezeezed]

Moved the water butt
Had a weed in amoungst the red cabbage and sprouts.

Then went to visit my first grand-daughter who was born this morning!

[selfraising]

Cut down the last of my outdoor tomato plants. Picked some chillis, cut back some perennials and weeded.