What I Did Today Archive 2011

[binley100]

Weeded and planted various bits in the centenary garden then came home and played in the greenhouse...

[Bigmallly]

Spent 10 hours hoeing & raking, removing a fence & posts, digging up 3 bushes that judging by their roots, thought they were trees.......Anyways it's all nice and level........need a bath now to ease my old aching joints.

[amandaandherveg]

Sun was out so took the pooches for a walk in the woods, bit of breakfast then off to chum the chap at the garden centre to sell me their burst bags of bark (£1 a bag down from £7.99 - result). Into the local sawmill - 14 long wooden stakes for £4 (another bargain) to keep some new beds at the lottie in place.

OH appeared the other night after a trip to the supermarket with a heap of Country Life butter (reduced to 25p a packet), it was raining when I got home so made 12 jars of lemon curd (yum) and some Butternut Squash and Sage Rissotto for tea.

[binley100]

Today I worked from home (weeding and tidying the garden) played in the gh for a bit then popped to lottie for watering and harvesting

[bethduckie]

Went to the lottie, picked a few courgettes and the heavens opened.#

As I am shed and shelterless, the only thing for it was to come home again. Grr.

[Snadger]

Yesterday for breakfast I had field picked mushrooms (whilst walking the dog) greenhouse grown Shirley toms and some of my freshly laid chicken eggs..............now thats what I call a brekkie!!!!!
Today I did loads of weeding on paths,harvested a spring cabbage some beetroot and shallots which have done really well this year.
Ate loads of strawberries which are starting to go over now, some raspberries and goose berries which are also nearly finished.
Shaved a few leek and onion seed heads to try and promote vegetative reproduction in the form of 'grass'
Pruned some of the lamk growth off my cordon apples and pears.

[Two_Sheds]

- sowed more spring onions, lettuce, China Rose radish, cabbage (Hispi) & foxgloves for next year
- took clematis cuttings
- mowed the lawn, put the 2 buckets of clippings on the compost heap to heat it up
- salted lots of slugs & snails, 1am by torchlight
- spent hours & hours weeding again (thank you rain)
- made 12 jars of pickled courgettes
- planted out 3 very late (too late really) Turks Turban pumpkins, Rodima cabbage & red lettuce
- sprinkled some more BFB around the plot
- sowed alfalfa in the vacant spud patch

[rustylady]

Yesterday went to the lottie. Dug more spuds, picked the last of the gooseberries, two courgettes and a lovely Hispi cabbage. Sowed some more chitted Kelvedon Wonder peas. More weeding!!

[susieq100]

Yesterday pm I went to the allotment; I have not been for a week! Bladdy work. Anyway - 4 wheelbarrows of weeds later I had barely scratched the surface. On the plus side ... my neighbour is giving up his plot in November, he has a second one on the other side of the site and is going to concentrate on that one, so I am going to see if Council will let me have his! It would be really convenient to have 2 next to each other. There are at least 15 empty plots on the site, so clearly no waiting list.

Harvested the garlic, lifted the shallots and spread them on some netting to dry out a bit, picked a 2 litre tub of peas, a handful of french beans and lifted 2 sorts of potatoes - Pink Fir Apple to eat boiled and the other ones (whites, can't remember what they were - will have to look in diary) for roasting. Pulled a bunch of carrots - I should have thinned these a bit but eating the baby ones is sort of doing the job and picked half a carrier bag of broad beans. In a week or two I am going to be making so much greengage jam I shall rival Hartley's for production. The trees are bowed down with fruit.

Last weekend OH and I delivered some old floor tiles to the plot, I am planning to use them for either paths or bed edging, have not yet decided. My cauliflower have 'bolted' a bit - probably all right for piccalilli or soup - will have a go tomorrow or Tuesday.

[gillian62]

I had a great morning at the allotment yesterday - 4 hours of quiet!!
Weeded and emptied a bed - calabrese failure again.
Netted a bed of swede and turnips.
Dug up rest of new potatoes.
Found I had a proper cauliflower under my netting!!
Put nettle and comfrey feeds on different crops.

[bethduckie]

Weeding. Again. Meh.

Looked at home and I reckon that needs a lot of attention as well. Ho hum. Things do appear to be growing though, which is lovely!

[Loudbarker1]

Not much done over the weekend, except harvesting 20(!) courgettes from 5 plants (defender, soleil, and the stripyone) Also picked french beans (allegri) and lettuce (mixture).

Watered tomatos, cucumbers, potatos and courgettes (both growing through black plastic) blueberries, redcurrents, rosecurrents, blackberry and tayberries. all in pots.

Weeded two of 4 beds, round leeks and PSB/lettuce.

Cleared broad beans and peas. Space to be used for overwintering salads.

PS mowed lawn as well.

[Snadger]

Pulled up some onions, a few of which appeared to have the beginnings of white rot. Turned over the area and promptly planted seven curly kale plants where they had ben. This is the tall variant as i find the dwarf ra waste of time.

[susieq100]

Back to the plot yesterday afternoon - weeded (it was more like jungle clearance actually) the strawberry bed .... it is only 6ft by 6ft but I got 2 barrow loads of rubbish out of there! And I found a wasps nest and an ants nest, and something stung my leg!n Serves me right for wearing shorts. Weeded the celeriac and gave them a good water. Took some photos. Lifted some spuds for supper. If ants were a crop I'd have a glut.

[Snadger]

Pulled a large spring cabbage, dug over and enriched the soil and immediatley dibbled in 17 leeks where it had been (it was VERY large)
Sowed a couple of old packets of spring cabbage (Durham early and Offenham I think?)
God knows how old the seed is so i'll give it a week or so and if nothing appear i'll have to 'splash the cash' and buy some fresh seed!