What I Did Today Archive - 2010

[trolleydolly]

Today we finally cleared the back of the plot, which was the previous tenants dumping ground!. Also finished digging up the Jerusalem artichoke, where I could see It, which has invaded the plot. Must dig them out as soon as I see them, so much easier!!!!

[Snadger]

Planted out 2 pockets of Golden Bear onions. 6 brussel sprouts in another pocket, a pocket of Brora Swede seedlings.................then the rain came! (saved me watering them in)
Retired to greenhouse where I pottered on for a while before returning home.

[Jeanied]

Today I managed to do some work for a change!
I dug over a bed and planted a teepee of borlotti beans which were in a pot.
Then I dug over a second bed and manured and planted a courgette and a winter squash - complete with stake to mark where to water the root ball.
Then I planted a dozen french marigolds to attract the hoverflies - who swooped straight in on them.
Then I planted a teepee each of 'spanish beans' -(lord knows what they are!) HSL climbing beans Blauhilde and also another batch of climbing French forget the name but I did label them.
Then I planted out 8 HSL dwarf french beans and about 40 sweet peas from rootrainers - having first dug over, staked and manured everywhere. Oh and 3 donated brassicas found on the plot from some kind lottie neighbour and 2 cabbages.

[Helgalush]

After the heaviest downpour in a long time, I have finally planted my climbing french beans and morning glories in to a half barrel with an obelisk, to climb up.

I also planted a hanging basket with one tumbling tom red, one tumbling tom yellow and some flat leaf parsley, which looks lovely.

Then I potted on some red peppers that really should have been done ages ago.

[Welsh Wizard]

Came back after a few days away: Harvested a load of salad bits: so much is bolting in the heat despite the shade provided by the forest!
Watered like crazy. Discovered another double sowed square, cabbage and winterheckenzwiebeln (bunching onions!) all mixed up! Put order in for seed for the overwinter garden I am planning: spring greens, mache, aquadulce claudia BBs plus cold hardy lettuce, and spring cabbage.

[wellie]

You know how sometimes you just look at things that you need to do, and put them off, and put them off, well I grabbed the bull by the horns today, and earthed up all of my potatoes, even the ones in buckets/old compost bags.
It was a right old fiddly job to do now, and I should've done it ages ago, but I feel very good and holy, and will prolly sleep better tonight because of it (let's hope so!!! I couldn't sleep any worse than I did last night EVER!) X

[chengjing]

With help from hubby we put up an irrigation system for the green house at the allotment. Planted out all pumpkins and squashes and all herbs. Weed veg bed.

[frogdoctor]

Hard life

Dashed down to my allotment, searched high and low for the weeds, did some watering. had a chat, as you do! dashed home, did lunch for the wife, dashed back down to the allotment, had another chat, then dashed home for an early evening meal and a quick shower, dashed around pub for a pint or two, now its time to put my feet up..lovely.

[hamsterqueen]

topped up potato buckets.

filled 2 planters with compost for the cheap pea plants I bought at weekend.

sowed some more salad seeds in every availablenook and cranny

watered everything

and jumped up and down with excitement at my runner beans which are ctually poking through the ground ( I had given up hope!)

[selfraising]

When I got back from work, picked first outdoor cuc. Then sowed carrot Autumn King in modules also more beetroot cylindra.

[Ace of spades]

After picking 2 corgettes yesterday [that's 7 so far] there were 2 more ready today-not a good idea having 2 plants in g.h.1st Patty Pan squashes are about an inch in diameter no doubt they'll soon be ready, hope, they don't taste like corgettes.1st tomatoes starting to form on Fiorentino,not so many flowers on Roma & no toms yet, but loads of [maybe too much] foliage can't wait to taste them. Weeded the leeks & onions then planted a 2nd batch of peas & runner beans turned round and noticed dozens more weeds had sneaked up in the onion bed ooh well tomorrows another day.

[binley100]

Popped up to lottie and harvested some spuds for tea. Noticed with dismay that something had cut through my runner beans., so we have now tried netting them Rescued two strawbs from the ants . Found a shallot that was starting to throw up a flower so nipped that off.Pulled a garlic which actually looks like a garlic bulb. Fed the tadpoles who now have little legs appearing
Came home and in GH fed the Roma toms that are starting to fruit. Sowed more runners as replacements for the decapitated ones.

[NewbieGardenerRow]

I just topped up my potato bags and earthed up my rogue spud today plus went around looking at all the flowers on my broadies. even the tiny plants only about 5" tall have flowers!!!!! Bumble bees are very busy on them....lots of broadies in a few weeks...can't wait!
Yesterday I put up some tough thick plastic clematis netting in my grow house for my cucumbers and put some poles in the buckets too. Since then I'm sure they have grown 2 inches! I also re potted more peppers from the Jiffy 7s.
I also checked my bean fence and tried to encourage some to curl around the canes as the rain had knocked them off.
I also caught a frog munching on a pumpkin leaf (this is after I put slug pellets down around it after a previous nights damage, thinking it was slugs that were to blame). The pellets got a couple of slugs but now I'm wondering if it was more frog damage than slug damage so I have now bought a slug trap and some cheap beer to fill it with but what can I do about pumpkin munching frogs???
LOL I love the surprises this grow your own lark throws at me!

[sewer rat]

Today I played cowboys - three of the horses escaped from their field and took off down the driveway towards the public road, after nearly trampling me underfoot - luckily they charged into a field of Spring Barley before hitting the public road, but it took three of us a good two hours to catch them, halter them and lead them back to their rightful place - they were obviously a wee bit excitable so leading them back was what you might call an adrenalin rush. And then to add insult to injury, as I was repairing the gate that they had broken the catch on, Rosetti ( the ringleader) decided she liked the taste of my baseball cap, so she removed it from my head and shredded it !!

[Elaineb]

I tasted my first garden pea so so sweet, it's done really well I have 3 growing in a huge pot and they are now producing pods at breakneck speed. so proud

Elaine x

Oh and my runner beans are just showing little red buds and I'm wondering wether to harvest my spuds this week as they are taking up a huge amount of space on my little patio!!