What I Did Today Archive 2011

[Snadger]

Cut some pieces of perspex to fill in the gaps on my greenhouse roof edges. A long process but should go some way to making greenhouse draft free!

[binley100]

Raked and firmed my onion bed , then planted my yellow shallots. Tidied away the manky leaves off the PSB, sprinkled some dried chicken poo pellets where the Bored Beans will be going. Dug out some really rotten looking chard.....then up to the Centenary Garden where I spent two hours digging out the paths ready for them to be laid at the weekend.....

[lottieanne]

hubby and father-in-law have been putting my shed up on my lottie :-) roll on friday so can see it.

[splatcat]

just planted broad beans, and a few (6) radishes inside to see what happens (with the radishes)

[smilingshoe]

@ Anne, well done thats great news wish I had a hubby for shed erection purposes, still pondering mine. Today so far I have transplanted some leeks into a larger thingy to grow in and sown some kohl rabi into modules.

[Suky]

Spent 3 hours at the allotment with my Mum (who wanted nothing to do with it) clearing brambles and marking paths and beds and drinking coffee and making plans.

[binley100]

Manged to get in the gh for an hour after work to pot on some seedlings.......

[Chef_uk]

Went and brought 20 bamboo canes from Homebase and stuck them in and around my beds with string acting as a barrier as telling my 2 year old twins to stay off them is proving hard work, more so as nothing is actually growing yet so there's nothing to distinguish between paths and rows. Also rearranged the kitchen so to have one side exclusively for seed sowing Coffee machine now lives under the stairs

[splatcat]

Chef, I'm still trying to train my 5 year old twins to keep off lol, it doesn't work!

[gojiberry]

Yesterday. Managed to scrounge a load of pallets from the building site across the way from the lottie. Even persuade them to drop them off at the gate. Then spent the day tidying up a corner of the site that plot holders had started to dump rubbish on (all organic waste I'm pleased to say). Then started to build some compost bins for general use. Got one finished and will build another two today. Can't understand some people as there was a huge amount of top soil within the rubbish. No one can afford to be dumping their topsoil.

Ian

[lottieanne]

Been to lottie today 4 more hours diggin and still not dug it all over yet. Arrived on site with flask was just about to make a drink and dropped my flask. Then thought ok will put the kettle on in the shed, no shed kesy so maybe not.

Gained 4 rubarb roots from around the site an advantage of having a corner plot. Hope it stays dry on sunday and I can dig a little more. Might actually reach the other end of the plot :-) I forgot to take a picture so will take one before I begon on Sunday.

[perkin]

Sowed chilli, tomato, sweet pepper, celeriac and shallot seeds in modules - to be germinated in unheated props on my kitchen floor (underfloor heating).

Washed 000s of seed trays, modules and plant pots ready for the onslaught of sowing and potting on in the next couple of months.

Rescued the veg plot, and all the lovely worms within, from the close attention of Chicken Licken, who managed to crawl under a very dense shrub to gain access to hitherto undisturbed raised beds.

Checked on the garlic (both varieties growing very nicely), very late-sown autumn sowing carrots (just now starting to germinate); harvested a couple more parsnips (stupendous crop this time, compared to previous years) and said encouraging things to my underdeveloped leeks (maybe I should dig them out now and claim that they were always intended as baby veg...)

[hawthorns]

started to build a large cold frame from pallets and an old window. will post a pic when completed

[Bigmallly]

Needed a break from the kitchen so transferred cauli seedlings from heated prop into rootrainers which were ideal as although they were a bit leggy, they had really good roots.

[missalaska]

Pulled out all the straw from the strawberry plants - pegged some runners and tidied it all up. Dug over one bed.