What I Did Today Archive 2011

[Plot6B]

Harvested the last of the Sprouts and then dug over their beds. Also dug up some Carrots that I had grown through the Winter.
The Allotment site is now closed for two weeks to lay a new path. I'm going to be at a loss now for a while!

[binley100]

Spent the day working on the centenary garden at the lottie finishing off edging the veg beds . We all had a tea and cake picnic in the carpark .........which was nice

[SunnyU]

I made use of a day at home by cleaning all my spare plant pots - now I just have to decide what I want to grow in them all...

[kentvegplot]

After a good weekend pruning apple trees, clearing raspberry canes and emptying and turning over the soil in the polytunnel, today I moved all of the pots of tulips (planted in haste before the holiday) out from the greenhouse, and covered them with net to stop the squirrels/birds from digging them up. Also had a bonfire to get rid of pile of diseased prunings. I feel quite ahead of the game - and I know it won't last!

[taff]

pruned various bushes and trees, weeded, got out a big rubble sack saved for the purpose and put all prunings in there.
Turned the compost.

[Snadger]

Half an hour after wotk sorting chooks and rebuilding greenhouse.

[vicky]

Weeded the asparagus, artichoke and rhubarb beds then covered in a good layer of compost mulch.
Continued moving bulbs out of the front garden and potting up plants as the new driveway is now underway (this year's big project...)

[fruitylou]

Today we've sowed onions, 4 types of chilli, 1 type pepper, 5 types tomatoes, mixed aubergines, celery, carrots, cabbage, parsley, spring onions (trying them early indoors) chamomile. Potted up some late bulbs for cutting flowers tulips, daffs and giant alliums. Took 12 fig cuttings and tried lots of methods to root and tried rooting a blueberry and plum cutting (I say cutting but infact the dog snapped them when she was on a rampage). And OH put up a new 5mx5m bed in frozen ground go him! And yesterday we tidied the 2 sheds and outhouse. Umm can you tell we have been stuck at home lol

[bigt1888]

sat through a two hour seminar on japanese knotweed!!!!.....at least the sanwiches and coffee were nice..

sowed some more flower seeds for the border and hanging baskets..

[binley100]

Dug over two beds on our Centenary garden (both 12' x 14')..........hope I can move tomorrow......

[Chef_uk]

First post in here

Divided compost heap in to two manageable sections, one with rotted compost (5ft high), the other empty (1ft below ground level oops) ready for this years scraps and waste.

Also placed a sheet of guttering to one side of the shed ready to start collecting some h2o (once my water butt arrives), and started an online blog about growing veg for the first time

[binley100]

Pricked out more onion seedlings, sowed sweet peas, sisyrinchium, aquilegia ,bored beans, gardenpearl toms ( to do a taste test against the tumbler toms ) potted on some other toms ( sinking them ) .........

[lottie dolly]

had some time at the lottie with MR LD,tyding up,grow barn & potting shed,putting things in new places,much better,burnt some old wood ext,sowed seeds,2 types of cauliflowers,sprouts,red and white spring onions in moduals,another lot of broadies,came home with spudz and carrots,freshly dug up

[Newbie]

Received my new tomato seeds through the post from Suttons: Red Robin & Little Sun. I've grown Red Robin before & really liked them, Little sun is it's sister variety with Yellow toms. May have to sow a few for early toms!

[SunnyU]

I moved a load of woodchip today and tried to make the blackberries climb up the fence rather than across my plot....They are supposed to stop vandals climbing over the fence