What I Did Today Archive - 2010

[Snadger]

Bought five X 20Kg bags of layers pellets from graim merchant. Bought 4 X 75 Litre bags of potting compost for £12 from Wickes (Which I thought was reasonable)
After the shock of spending so much money, spent the rest of the day progressing with my new chicken run. A couple of days more should see it completed, near enough!
Took some tomato plants to the allotment to pot on but didn't have time. Built a makeshift frame out of clear plastic, within the greenhouse and put them in there with a small paraffin heater. If the cold gets them, at least I've got time to sow some more!

[ginger ninger]

Went to the local nursery and bought some more seeds, trimmed and tided up all my herbs, turned the compost bin and Re-potted my bay.

[binley100]

Finished off the bean frames. Planted some Bergenia roots by the pond, hoping the wabbits don't like 'em. Planted more onion sets. Shifted some cow sh*t that we were given . Went for a long walk all round the lottie site just to be nosey.
Came home and in the GH potted on peppers, melons, bns, . Spoke words of encouragement to everything

[Flummery]

Went with 5 friends from our Yorkshire in Bloom group, to a Willow Sculpture course. It's a long time since I've had so much fun with me clothes on! Came home with an obelisk for my peas and a willow chicken which is now pecking in the garden.

[crazii_c]

i planted out my broad beans first veg of the year to be planted out, exciting stuff!

[Nykied]

I hoed my patch, planted onion sets, garlic and carrots. Made my nets for those, using bamboo sticks and garden net, then made my anti-carrot fly barried, using bamboo and net curtains I got free, then sowed baby tomato seeds and two sorts of flowers in those trays of pots.

I don't know which type of anything I've got apart from the onion sets, which are Stuttgarten or something. And my toms may be minibell. It's my first time growing, so I just picked ones I liked on the picture and didn't know any different ;o)

[Welsh Wizard]

Dug first bed in new garden: 8ft by 4 ft. This year I am trying out square foot planting so I have carefully pegged out nylon twine to divide the bed into 32 grid squares.

Then made my first plantings: 12 grid squares of garlic that had been rooting in cell trays. Some confusion among the square foot garden experts as to whether 4 or 9 should be planted per square: Personally 9 per square foot looked way too crowded and 4 looked a far better spacing based on my recollection of how straggly a garlic can get.

Planted out 8x All year round lettuce that were getting rather in need of light: 4 per square. And station sowed 32 carrots: 16 per square. Think I will have thinning to do as the carrot seed is small and trying to get just a few seeds to a station didn't happen!

First broad bean and several spring onions now up in the cell trays so will be transplanting them into the grid system soon.

Forgot to mention the joy of sandy soil after last years heavy clay! I was overjoyed when I saw what great stuff there was under the turf! It looks like a really fine mix of sand and humus and handles like fluffy MPC. So easy to work and get a tilth!

[Sabian]

Today I sowed some more tomatoes...money maker and gardeners delight. Dug and raked bed (12ft x 10 ft) ready for onions and shallots im putting in next week, as I have a week off....hurray!

Fixed part on the fence with pallets and tided the greenhouse. Came home with last of parsnips and leeks, had a shower, then sat at computer with a cool can of beer.

[StephenH]

Sowed some 'Cardinale' red lettuce in seed trays in the greenhouse.

[chris]

Went into work forgetting I had booked the day off. Returned home to plant spuds, and somehow spent another £100 in the garden centre I can't help it, soon I'm going to need to goto Gardners Anonymous.

Also just about to sow some alpine strawberries, beans, and probably peas!

[jackie j]

Put 13 red duke of york in the ground at the lottie yay. Before it started to rain and I had to come home.

[weekendwellies]

soon I'm going to need to goto Gardners Anonymous.

Already there pal. 'I am WeekendWellies and I am an addict'

Welcome Chrismarks

[sarraceniac]

Weather started gorgeous so went out and put my early spuds in. Took a couple of seedling pots out of the cold greenhouse for the flower borders. Black poppies and mecanopsis. Should be safe now outside. Shoved a few more dahlia corms in as well. Then the drizzle came so I came indoors and had a cup of tea and a slice of cake. Nowadays I'm strictly a fair weather gardener. Then I went on line and bought a French tarragon plant. Would have preferred to have got seed but although Russian tarragon seed is easy to get I think the price of French tarragon, grown from cuttings, makes the nurseries not to keen to sell the seed.

[Flummery]

Himself and I (well mostly Himself, I can't do tidy) sorted out the patio and moved the pots and swept up etc. Looks much better now. Then I dug out the bird sown brambles by the edge of the veg plot, removed the last bit of compost from a previously dismantled Dalek and added it to my veg beds and the rhubarb patch. Then I put the Dalek in its new place.
Got rained off. I shall now make a cake!

[Two_Sheds]

spent 3 hours planting & weeding the lotty in the sunshine

- sowed 2 rows of beetroot: Choggia & Cylindra
- sowed a row of Profita pea
- planted 3 rows of spuds: Anya, Pink Fir & Marfona (from Tesco)
- planted a row of Kestrel in leafmould, in pots sunk in the soil
- planted lots of other spuds in trenches filled with leafmould, but can't remember names right now
- sowed 3 rows of Cipolla onion (it was rubbish last year but I wanted to use up the pack)
- planted a row of Golden Gourmet shallots & one of Red Baron sets
- sowed a few rows of flowers round the edges: Cal.poppy, cerinthe & malva alba
- transplanted s/s wallflowers & limnanthes along the perimeter fence
- refilled the Daleks: now all 4 composters are full to the brim
- emptied one Dalek to turn the contents: and evicted a family of mice
- sowed a row of French beans (I feel lucky)
- emptied 2 bags of leafmould on the home garden, & transplanted self sown myosotis
- fed the greedy fish in my water butts
- rotated guinea pigs round the lawn, its starting to grow & they're lovin it