What I Did Today Archive 2011

[lottieanne]

sowed peas, broad beans and runner beans ......... woooooo hooooo my greenhouse has seeds sown in it :-)

[jojo2910]

Today I came home from work and went straight to move soil into my raised beds. Got about 10 loads done before darkness came in. Checked on my seeds and will be pricking out and sowing all tomorrow, as well as shoveling more soil. I shall have huge biceps by the end of this.

[VirginVegGrower]

Just listened to weather report for tomorrow - beautiful day tomorrow across country apparently, so me on the lottie early putting in my peas in guttering, so I can come home and sow more! Which brings me onto today - sowed peas in guttering 2(borrowed from next door neighbour - thanks Maurice). Sowed some runner beans - late on tonight as I had forgotten (thanks lottieannie). Went garden centre shopping and No8 Felcos were on offer and fell into my trolley along with a whole host of other things...oops! Treated my mum to some leather gardening gloves for Mother's Day pressie. Best of all though was that OH and myself finished bed number 3 this morning...hurrah! Bed 6 over the weekend.

[bramble]

Potted on all my tomato plants which are really getting big now. Kimberley, Stupice Bloody Butcher and Blaby getting really big now. Also potted on my chili planted. Checked over my strawberry plants and found two that have buds on them. Unfortunately I don't know which variety they are as I didn't label them when i took the runners in the autumn.

[hawthorns]

dug over 3 potato beds and carrot bed, raked and covered.

[Two_Sheds]

- potted on Bloody Butcher & PW French Black tomatoes
- put the peas, garlic & lettuce out in the sunshine, then back in gh at night
- sowed more HH annuals in the heated prop - they're coming up quick now
- repotted everything in gh (well, it felt like it)
- planted out 25 nigella
- watered then repotted the 6" high French beans (just a few on windowsill)
- picked another sack of broken glass & plastic shards out of the compost heap
- wheelbarrowed 8 loads of greenhouse glass to a Freegler, been in shed 15 years
- dug nettles & brambles out of lotty
- planted out spuds, sweet peas, peas & garlic on SOMEONE ELSE'S PLOT !!! then handed back their keys
- planted out stocks & bulbs/corms of anemone de Caen & gladioli, & freesias in the gh
- planted out garlic on my own lotty, and more peas
- picked lots of lovely new chard leaves
- spring onions are bolting, so cooked them all for dinner

[SunnyU]

Having been away from home for the last 6 months due to work I feel like I'm lagging badly behind but then again it's still pretty cold up here (although it's been a nice day here today) so I started off some early onward peas, beetroot, kohlrabi, broadbeans, tomatoes and some nasturtiums. I also put my onion sets into modules and placed them into the greenhouse as I think it may still be a little too cold for them to go out as such.

Don't want to stop now! Better get sitting on my hands before I start other stuff off too early...

[buzzingtalk]

Put up 2 hanging baskets ready for trailing toms
repotted some strawbs
checked over seeds - got a few herbs and marigolds coming up!

[Rixy]

Took a lot of rubbish down to the dumpit site. finished off painting the new wood base for the greenhouse I'm rebuilding, finished off putting up the wire mesh on top of my fence and lastly finshed off preparing the bed for my onions to go into tomorrow.

[taff]

sowed all my toms today, and aubergines, and chillies.
Must put my potatoes somewhere to chit soon....

[suzac70]

Backache

Measured out beds and marked them out, spent two hours digging very stubborn weeds out of bed 6, didn't have time to plant onion sets as in-laws visiting, have leeks growing in mini greenhouse, first season on plot so am winging it at the moment but my husband built me two compost bins and a shed on thursday so at least i dont just have half a plot of mud and weeds anymore.....talking of which, is it ok to put all the weeds on the compost? Because thats what I've done inbetween layers of manure and straw that the site has delivered.

[lottieanne]

dug over the area where the bonfires used to be again......going to plant some spuds in there tomorrow :-)

[binley100]

Planted out rocket tatties, planted out first lot of broadies, planted out onion sets under fleece. Rescued some logs suitable for fence posts from our wilderness area that is being cleared. Cleared an area and planted out autumn raspberries.Laid some paths on the centenary garden.

[trolleydolly]

Dug over the potato bed. Absolutely knackered after doing so!

[Edith]

(yesterday!)

planted out peas, broadbeans and sweetpeas. Sowed spinach and rocket.

Cleaned out shed, the aim being to give my kids somewhere to lurk while we do the plot. Took a carload of unusable (really properly unusable) junk to the tip.

evacuated mice

started digging potato trenches

Up again today to finish (hopefully) potatoes and sort out an overgrown grape vine.