What I Did Today Archive 2011

[Nicos]

First full mow of the grass yesterday

[Newton]

Constructed a living willow arch........fingers crossed now that it lives.......

how did you do that....it looks excellent. can you use it for growing runner beans and the like? How is it growing??

respect!

[Scarlet]

Sowed several types of lettuce and some toms. Off out now to wash the glass of the secondhand greenhouse that has yet to be put up!

[Newbie]

Yesterday I emptied the greenhouse, scrubbed & pressure washed it inside & put everything back in. OH finished pressure washing the patio. Today i have pressure washed the outside of the greenhouse & am just having a cuppa before embarking on washing the plant pots & seed trays. If i've any energy left then i'll return all the planted up pots etc back to their homes on the now sparking clean patio.

... (edit) ok my energy levels didn't stretch to washing the pots & moving plants back onto patio, but i did go & do the weekly shop instead

[DLittlewood]

• Emptied greenhouse and took everything outside for some fresh air
• washed inside greenhouse & staging
• planted 4 potato sacks with 2nd earlies Maris Peer and 8 1st earlies Pentland javlin direct in ground - hoping these are ready before my french beans go in
• planted 4 strawberry plants in a B&Q pop up planter

Divised a rollup shade for greenhouse using a cane some pipe insulator and some fleece - see if it works

tomorrow i will clean outside greenhouse glass and buy some more compost
Perfect pottering day

[perkin]

Moved last years strawberry grow-bags out of the greenhouse and back onto the patio.
Swept most of the greenhouse floor - rescuing some worms in the process.
Sowed chitted parsnip seeds as well as spinach and leaf salad into a raised bed.
Put mixed broad beans and beetroot seeds to soak overnight before sowing tomorrow.
Potted on all my tomato seedlings - 35 so far, but many will be donated to friends and family.
Sowed more scotch bonnet and razzamatazz chilli seeds in propagator in airing cupboard.

[Potstubsdustbins]

Very pleasant 20` plus in the GH today. So I sat at the bench and planted some of my seed modules.

21 Green Magic calabrese.

21 Igloo cauli.

7 Summer Purple PSB

Lettuce 5 Tom Thumb, 5 Lollo Rosso, 5 Salad Bowl, 5 Little Gem.

Then just sat there with a cup of tea and watched the birds on the feeder less than 6ft away.

Colin

[Rixy]

Eventualy got around to setting some tomato seeds off (San Marzano, Tigerella, Roma and Marmande), also planted Scotch Bonnet chilli seeds. Bought 8 bags of Levington's farmyard manure (@ £1.75 a bag) and delivered them to the plot, taking the opportunity while I was down there to put in another row of my crazy paving patio into place.

[wellie]

I'm in complete awe of Living Willow constructy people as well...... I regret the day that Trousers declined to buy me the book I was glued to in WHS in Cribbs Causeway all those years ago on the subject.

Anyway. I spent the entire day, apart from about half an hour sieving fresh bonfire ash around the roots of beautifully mature rambling roses and wisteria, dealing with shed-loads of newly emerging nettles - mostly in amongst autumn raspberry canes.

Had it not been for the fact that my gorgeous cat wouldn't stop following me wherever I went today (AND she caught A Mickey?), I was going to weedkill the entire driveway.
I WILL do that tomorrow, even if I have to lock her in her bedroom?!X

[panewby]

Sowed seed on Window sil:

Onion
Leek
Lettuce
Spinage

planted potatos in large pots in green house, to move outside once a little milder

Emptied compost bin, was amazed how much i got from it

Had a good tidy up

[crazii_c]

sowed lots of different annuals. also re-potted up my mint, which had got too overcrowed for its own good.

[kentish girl]

planted new raspberry canes on the plot

[Beatnix]

divided up my aloe vera - got 10 more pots of it now! Sorted out the strawbug plant and tidied up the planters for all my juicy seedlings. We're still getting bad frosts here and it was FREEEEZZZing here today so I couldn't get much planted (not to mention we ran out of time)

[binley100]

Today I created a bed for my fruit bush collection ........

[Chef_uk]

Planted out 24 Onions (Sown 20th Feb) and 12 Broadbeans (Sown 29th Jan). Fleeces at the ready
Replaced broken greenhouse glass.