What I Did Today Archive 2011

[Thelma Sanders]

Those pants need to be higher or you'll catch a cold in your kidneys, and you definitely don't want any soft growth in there. LOL

[pigletwillie]

With my plots going to new tenants tomorrow I lifted lots of fruit bushes for home. Red and black currants, gooseberry, blueberry and even a grape vine have made the journey home.
The lawn is now earmarked for a potager and raised beds with automatic watering will be made over the winter ready for spring planting/sowing.

[Snadger]

Those pants need to be higher or you'll catch a cold in your kidneys, and you definitely don't want any soft growth in there. LOL

Ha ha!

[Two_Sheds]

- chopped a LOT off the holly, and burned it on the chiminea
- ditto camellia, ditto choisya

[pigletwillie]

started to lift pavours at home to make a path narrower and a border wider to accomodate fruit bushes......in the dark lol.

[Thelma Sanders]

That's true dedication

[Fruit&2veg]

Covered peas (meteor) with netting to keep pigeons off as the seedlings are geminating nicely now.

[Loudbarker1]

Back from 2 weeks in France on Saturday. Planted broad bean seed (Aquadulce) on Sunday with help of 4 and 2 year olds - 30 seeds - 24 direct to soil 2 inches deep (or thereabouts) and 6 more into pots to cover for ones that don't come up.

Will cover over with fleece or simialr next weekend - last year overwintering beans (superaquadulce if I remember rightly) were very hard hit by the snow.

[Two_Sheds]

- had a massive tidy up in the garden, chopped up the choisya & camellia, pruned the holly into a "shape"
- enjoyed the guilty pleasure of a bonfire (chiminea) - holly doesn't rot
- spread the ash on my onion patch
- dug out the violets that have taken over one end of garden
- collected another 13 sacks of autumn leaves for leafmould
- popped some tulips in fridge for 6 weeks (forcing for an early indoor show)

[snakeshack]

repaired raised beds that had sprung open and finished covering paths inbetween with membrane,planted out shallots and elephant garlic as well as the compulsory solent wight.rotavated the area pinched from the uncultivated >20 years plot next door which I grew pumpkins on this year,thinking about wheat for chicken food as A new tenant may move in and I don't want to plant anything i'll be sorry to lose ;council think its in cultivation,which means that somebodies paying the rent or their records are wrong

[Nes]

After three years of making leaf mould in plastic bags, I finally made a bin with four bamboo poles, some chicken wire and a couple of plastic bags to line the side against the fence. Filled it with four bags of leaves I collected yesterday from the road (before all the rain!) - it's a fairly quiet dead end so not too rubbishy or trafficky (??), and a few leaves raked from the lawn.

[Florence Fennel]

Cleared out the stayput, weeded the flower bed, harvested sprouts. Put the spray chrysanthemums out of their pots (they did look sad, I've neglected them) into the flower bed and salvaged 4 of the big incurled mums and put them in the stayput. Cleared a raised bed of carrots.

[vegnut]

Stripped down the runner canes, dug up some tayberry suckers and did a bit of weeding.

[pigletwillie]

The chooks got a good cleanout with the straw and droppings all going into the bottom of my new raised beds (well one of them) then it was off to the farm shop for a couple of sacks of layers pellets.

[VirginVegGrower]

Second day with my old mate *****. It is the only perfume for me these days. Raked up more leaves this morning - took two hours. Leafmold cage full, need another one making. Cleaned out girls and raked out their poo.
Scrubbed out greenhouse, staging, pots, trays, everything really with JF. Lit sulphur candle. Normally have this done by now but owing to hen woes, everything has slipped backwards. Shut the girlies up for the night, brought feeders/drinkers in. Time for hot bath before I wallpaper...sigh!