What I Did Today Archive - 2010

[binley100]

Turned a compost heap, strimmed outside our gate and hedge, riddled some compost for the strawberry bed and for the globe artichoke, cleared away some yellowing psb leaves , sat and enjoyed a bit of peace and quiet .....well quiet apart from my robin who was singing me some lovely songs

[maytreefrannie]

Yesterday I spread some half-decayed annual weeds on two beds and covered with plain cardboard for the winter.

Also, I picked some tomatoes and a couple of green peppers, added a homegrown onion and slow roasted the lot in olive oil.

These made a delicious sauce for pasta for lunch today with daughter and granddaughter.

[binley100]

Consigned the runner bean plants to the compost heap , took down the canes, weeded then spread some muck and compost over ready for planting out garlic. Had a bonfire to get rid of hawthorn prunings. Harvested some veg for dinner, went home and cooked veg (along with a roast chicken ) for dinner, ate dinner then cleared up . Only had help with the eating of ....

[stella]

Planted out some violas (bought Im afraid, dont have much luck with seed). Put some crocus over water in some reall cute different coloured bottles Made some compost jelly,2 loaves of bread, 3 jars of picked red cabbage, and buttermilk rusks yum

[T8Ter]

What I did (yesterday) plant out my elephant garlic, I'm amazed at my self-restraint in keeping all the cloves for planting. I also picked some chillies to try an idea thought of after reading another thread here (Caro - chilli jam) in that I'm going to try and make red, green,yellow and purple jam using the relevant coloured chillies and their sweet pepper counterparts. If it turns out ok I'll post pics (otherwise I'll never speak of this again )

[spiderpig]

harvested 18 baby bear squashes from lottie.composted squash stalks/sweet peas and sunflowers.began turning over beds and removing weeds.moved 7 wheelbarrows of compost onto plot ready to dig in later.

[rustylady]

Bottled the dandelion wine (started April) and daughter's teabag wine. Washed the walls after a slight accident with the syphon tube. Put the elderberry wine into a DJ, washed the walls and cupboards again.

[Two_Sheds]

- sowed garlic in modules
- sowed sw.peas and Feltham First peas in rootrainers
- dug up one carrot bed (the slugs have started munching) - 8 lbs
- sowed broad beans as a green manure on the carrot bed
- turned out one Dalek as I've run out of composting room
- saved seed from salvia & hosta
- took dozens of fuchsia cuttings (they're looking gorgeous at the moment)
- took the flowering jalapenos indoors
- took rooted cuttings off windowsill, out to gh (fuchsias, rosemary, potentilla)
- planted loads crocus with school's Garden Club (and a few viola)
- collected 4 sacks of autumn leaves

[binley100]

Planted garlic, picked, cleaned, chopped and froze 2lb celery ( ready to pop in soups etc) ,
made apple cakes one to eat and two for the freezer .

[Two_Sheds]

- turned out another 3 Daleks, then immediately filled them up with pumpkin vines
- collected 4 sacks of autumn leaves, stored behind shed
- mowed & edged the lawn, and mixed the clippings in with the autumn leaves
- lifted another 2 carrier bags of carrots: unbelievably good year for them (so much rain?)
- weeded & forked over next year's bean patch
- sowed Super Aquedulce
- sowed alfalfa & phacelia green manures on the carrot patch
- sowed 3 rows of radish (Rougette & French Breakfast)
- dodged the showers. How can there be any rain left up there?
- packed up next year's French bean seeds
- cleaned & stored all the canes
- brought home dozens of ickle gourds & a dozen edible squashes
- packed away 20 of my best carrots for replanting in March (to save the seed)
- ordered cheap Kings Seeds from the lotty rep
- bottled the fruit teabag & carrot wines
- started Sloe & Honey wine
- racked the rest of the wines (8 DJs)

[rustylady]

Processed more apples!! Made apple crumbles and "favourites".

[Snadger]

Planted out some Tuscan Kale,Spring cabbage,Christmas Drumhead cabbage and some red cabbage seedlings into a single raised bed!
Took down, and stripped all the chilli's off my potted plants and used the compost in a raised bed of brassicasPicked a huge bucketful of San Marzano tomatoes to dry and gathered some sprouts and a swede for the dinner.
Turned over part of a chook run which was muddy. Surprisingly soil was bone dry underneath mud!
Collected 16 eggs from nestboxes so after a quick wipe put a dozen in my honesty box!

[Marthaclematis]

We cut down some of the mile a minute climber. Trimmed the Verbana, raked leaves, cut back Lavender and all the 'Munch' Asters which had gone mental; Penstemons too. We can now see the ornamental grass and the rosemary and the heather. The Dogwood will soon be putting on a good show, its leaves are yellow and ready to drop and the Acer... oh my (!!) its beautifull - bright red, crimson. Gorgeous.
There is still lots to do but we've made a start at least.

[Jeanied]

Dug over one of the old potato beds (how come you never see them all first time round) topped it all up with compost from the compost bin and sowed some Aquadulce Claudia broad beans. Saw a double rainbow and got wet.
Harvested a parsnip - really chuffed that it was so straight as I'd been expecting a twisted one (I'd pre-germinated the seed in the airing cupboard). Gave away a cabbage (these F1s all come at once) - loads more ready to cut. Lifted the last of my dwarf french beans for shelling (these ones are black seeded -very pretty).
Now tired and smug.

[wssla00]

-Sowed my sweet peas in rootrainers
-Sowed some gerberas for house plants
-Sowed stocks for overwintering
-fed my winter tomatoes (red robin)
-harvested all of my thin chillies ready to make a rub for my mums arthritis

Er... that's it today!