What I Did Today Archive - 2010

[Suky]

Broke the zip on my mini walk in greenhouse This is a temporary measure until I can afford a 'proper' one and there is not much in it yet. I only got it in January and one of the zips has bruk! I have emailed Gardman and am waiting to see what they have to say.
Tidied up some paths, putting down weed cover topped with some spare plum slate, instant facelift.
Promised the tomato and pepper seedlings I would prick them out tomorrow.

[janeyo]

Suky, I find they never last longer than a season, no matter how careful you are.

[binley100]

- lost my wedding ring searched everywhere, but it could be anywhere, so unless a miracle happens, it's a goner).

I lost an earring must be a good two years ago , and my husband found it last week up the top of the garden , miracles can happen

Today I have sowed :-BSN, melons and patty pan squash all in propagator,
Purple loostrife, cornflowers, and poached egg plants for the bees.
Planted some sage cuttings that had rooted in a glass of water
Took some Lavender cuttings to try rooting in soil as the ones in water don't seem to be doing anything.
Said hello to pepper and tom seedlings that are popping up.

[COMPOST CORNER]

Went to a posh GC and bought some Sage seeds, marvelled at the price difference between them and Wilko's for essentialy the same thing (6x4 gardman type polythene Gh about twice the price).
Bought Carol Kleins "Grow you own Veg" journal which looks very useful

[Brengirl]

I smiled at my seedlings and wished them well.
Made a birthday cake for my grandson and prepared the pork for sausage making tomorrow. Had a shower and am now looking forward to a meal at the Indian restaurant with our birthday boy.

[Suky]

Suky, I find they never last longer than a season, no matter how careful you are.

Yup, but 6 weeks!!!!!!!!!

ETA: Gardman emailed straight back asking for size so they can send new cover. How's that for service.

[marathon]

potted on tomato plants. Sowed some flower seeds, basil, spinach and some parsnips in root trainers. Didn't go to the lottie as needed to catch up with housework but ended up playing with the chickens instead.

Will sit down tonight and go through seed box to make sure I don't miss anything. Going to sow some french dwarf beans to plant in the tunnel 1st week of April

[reetnproper]

Well finally cleared the gardening stuff out of the shed into my newly cleaned greenhouse. Then moved the 5 wheels and tyres his nibbs took off the Truck at the weekend, into the shed (couldn't leave the poor little things exposed to the elements any longer you understand )

Moved the shelves the stuff was on inside (after washing and despidering ) and put it in the dining room, after evicting the kids' little desk back to the kitchen.

Moved leeks, chillis and sweet peppers onto shelves, to make room for the new sowings on the window sills.

Then got down to the nitty gritty and sowed:

6 Ailsa Craig tomatoes; 6 Gardeners Delight tomatoes; 6 Nasturtiums as companion plants; 6 lots of Webbs Wonderful lettuce; 6 Yellow Scallops squash from GYO mag; 6 Mangetout (forget which variety); and 2 more deep containers of Leeks but Neptunes this time.

When my 5yr old got home from school, I helped both my girls plant 3 Sunflowers and 3 Big Max pumpkins each.

Tomorrow it's mixed salad leaves .

Reet
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[pipscariad]

Yet more digging.... (not sure how much more my back can take!)

Planted shallots and garlic from modules, all sprouted really well. Sowed some Adelaide carrots into a large plastic tub (discarded by the farmer in the adjoining filed, waste not want not) in the cold frame.

Keep looking at the seeds in the walk in propagator (aka airing cupboard ), not much action yet, but they only went in there yesterday ....

[nerdgas]

What I did Monday........

Went to lottie and planted up my garlic, onions and shallots that I had started off in modules at home and covered with a bit of chicken wire to try to stop the birds pulling them back out again....... remains to be seen if it'll work or not.

Also sowed a small row of purple top turnips and covered this along with two other future rows with a homemade fleece tunnel cloche.

Then station sowed a couple of PSB's and covered with water cooler cloches to warm things up and hopefully get them germinating.

Few more pics on my profile to show latest progress on new lottie although I think I'll have to start digging a few more beds and definitely have to do something about making the paths on the plot look a bit better.....

[gojiberry]

Went round the lottie but there is a very cold wind blowing this morning so may not get much done round there today. Planted out another 5 potatoes yesterday, and put some shallots in that should have been planted in December.

Ian

[Suky]

Sourced some twiggy pea sticks and some new bean poles from a local coppicer via the 'beanstick.org.uk' site. Lovely chap and so helpful. Now my Telephone peas will have some tall 'piggy twee' sticks to climb.
Too cold to do much else, may pot on the tomato seedlings inside.

[jacob marley]

Sowed next winters Brussell sprout seed and picked the last sprouts this season and yanked the old stalks up so we have gone full circle in 4 hours..jacob

[Two_Sheds]

my loitering at the bottle banks has paid off: I scored 25 bottles today, so

- bottled parsnip wine; beetroot wine; cherry plum wine
- started celery wine

I love winter winemaking: there are no fruit flies around

[grahama]

planted my first ever onions and garlic in my centre raised bed, and re planted on of my raspberries after Peanut the wonder dog was running around with it in her mouth

Graham