What I Did Today Archive 2011

[Suky]

Had lunch with Fi, bought a new border spade and some seed compost. Fi found me some large cardboard boxes to use as ground cover eventually at lottie. Used new spade at lottie and now have 2 beds turned over and ready to plant out the dwarf peas and the broad beans at the weekend. It's beginning to look like a proper lottie now. At the back of the shed on my plot we found an area of lovely quality soil and barrowed some of it on to the new beds. The site secretary tells me it's where the old boys from some of the other plots used to dump their turf and other green waste, aint I the lucky one

[gillian62]

Planted 5 small jerusalem artichoke tubers.

Planted 9 garlic cloves started in pots about 6 weeks ago, and another 12 or so cloves from a garlic bulb.

Dug over strip of bed ready to plant onions tomorrow.

[VirginVegGrower]

Sowed my cucumber plants, cornichons and gherkins. Also my tomatoes for outdoors have been sown today - Marmande, Roma, Yellow Stuffer, Garden Pearl and Gardeners Delight. Started to clean my greenhouse for the THIRD time as yet again my dozy OH has turned up the wick on the paraffin heater and now the interior is covered in soot. All pots, cloches and trays that I had cleaned and scrubbed all to be done again I am hiding the ****** keys!
Also cleaned out the new chooks and dumped their poop in the composter

[Creemteez]

Created a "Compost Corner" up at the Paddock using the four daleks that I emptied and brought from home. Sorted, turned and mixed the HOOGE pile of accumulated grass cuttings,hedge trimmings etc and filled three of the daleks already. Gonna leave 'em to cook all summer.
Think I've overdone it - again. Aaa-ach--ing!!!!

[lottieanne]

Planting in tune with the moon so I have sown my first seeds of the season 18 round courgette :-)

Grow babies

[buzzingtalk]

Sowed lots of seeds - mostly herbs, and some marigolds, indoors.

[sewer rat]

Was at walled garden reclamation project today, so if your interested, take a look at my blog for Scotsburn Garden.

[crazii_c]

ran round the garden picking things up which had been blown around by the unexpected gale force winds today! it even blew over my little plastic greenhouse, which squashed all my strawberrys and sent all my sweet peas flying out their pots and which has ruined them!!!

[DLittlewood]

sowed lots of seeds in greenhouse
Tomatoes, Aisla Craig, Garden Pearl, Gardeners Delight and 1 more cant remember
Courgettes, butternut squash, mini cucumber, celeriac
red pepper, little gem lettuce, salad bowl red and basil
and outside:
chardenay carrots, purple top milan turnip, parsnip and spring onion dx

[domart]

Spent most of the day at work worried that my Blow away hadnt Blown away as its really windy up here - called my wife straight after work and all seems well !!!

[kentvegplot]

Had day working on Mum's garden. No veggies today - instead, dug up an ancient white peony (that has been in the same place, without feeding or dividing, for 33 years!). Had to do it in pieces, as it was intertwined with a dogwood which is now on the heap.

Weeded the area - whole barrow of bindweed and ground elder.

Replanted the peonies among the tulips. Dug a huge hole to plant out a clematis that has spent the last 8 years in a huge pot. Planted another clematis alongside it, and trained both on the obilisk.

Went to Notcutts to return bags of compost bought Saturday - they were so old, and has been allowed to get so wet, that the dye from the bags came off on my hands.

Come home for a rest.

[Creemteez]

Blowing a Hoolie down here as well! Not the best day to choose to try and lay weed suppressing membrane on my paths, but had a go anyway.To the casual observer it must have been like watching someone playing a solitary and very bizzare game of Twister.- Left foot holding down one corner of the membrane. Right hand holding down another and trying to drag a bale of Mescanthus over everything with whatever limbs were left!

[lottieanne]

dug a little more and obtained 7 raspberry canes from a neighbour on plot. Hope to dig the lasr remaining bit of my lottie by monday weather permitting.

[JamesM]

Put a bird house up, put some growmore on my pots and chitted some parsnips seeds (as much as a practise as anything)

[VirginVegGrower]

Planting in tune with the moon so I have sown my first seeds of the season 18 round courgette :-)

Grow babies

I am also trying to follow the moon planting schedule and intend sowing first earlies potatoes tomorrow plus radish.