What I Did Today Archive 2011

[Jono]

Sowed some parsnips in flower buckets.
Planted out my broad beans.
Put my early potatoes in.

Probably a bit early for the 'snips, but couldn't resist giving it a go.

[taff]

Finally sowed my broad beans, and threw in a few celeriac for good measure.
Wandered round the garden pondering any big changes this year. Thought of quite a few to do.

[JamesM]

cut the grass, dug out a border, sowed some parsnips in loo rools (most likely as a practice for later in/next month) and turned the compost

[VirginVegGrower]

Still aching from weekend so just planted two trays of onion Sturon (rooted) into allotment. Shallots and garlic doing well.

[Snadger]

Planted three blackcurrant bushes at my new garden that I'd rooted from cuttings at the allotment.

[bramble]

Potted on more of my chili's, hot wax, banana, cayanne, romaro, and lots more. Tomatoes starting to put on a lot of growth now and are looking like proper sturdy plants. Sowed about one hundred dahlia seeds to share with my daughter and my next door neighbour.

[bubblewrap]

Saturday 30 cabbage seedlings
20 cauliflower seedlings
2 rows swede

In green house
100 dwarf beans
60 parsnips


To-day 4 rows spinach
4 rows beetroot.

[VirginVegGrower]

Sowed some basil into two pots. Some mustard cress into three pots. Some cucumbers into three pots to test against my lunar cukes. Some calendula into two pots. Repotted some broad beans for my gaps. Tidied Rose border and barkchipped it - three done with three to go! Watered.

[bethduckie]

Dug the front patch up a bit. It's thick with teeny tiny bulbs, so a most tedious task.

[wellie]

Before I dive into a hot bath from the shallow end, I thought I'd just tell you that I have discovered every muscle in my back and waistline today that's directly related to the garden art of what us gardeners like to call 'Raking'. Largely, because since this morning, I've been preparing a large area of bare soil in a garden just up the road from here, in order to seed it tomorrow for a new lawn.

I am on first name terms with every clod of earth, every stone, each and every handful of Bonemeal, and too, their gorgeous 6 month old doo-lally springer spaniel called Lily.

Thank You For Listening....X

[buzzingtalk]

Planted some broad beans
watered beds
caught next doors' escaped Hen! (twas very exciting!!!)
secured polytunnels
moved lots of compost from house to OH's daleks for composting
moved unwanted bags of eracious compost into OH's shed as I don't need any for rest of year

Lots of lifting, and carrying. Aching a bit Tomorrow is a nice laid back day of planting, sorting and cleaning

[Queen bee]

Made an instant cold frame from an old wine box and a window, for sowing tomatoes an such like in the tunnell. It's the first time I've used the jigsaw in years, am proud.

[mrpaulbradley]

What I did yesterday

Got loads done as we've had our first decent run of dry weather. Managed to sow early potatoes, carrots, snips, spring onions, broad beans and erected my new mini polytunnel. Got a few things hardening off in it.
Also got a power of tidying up done, cleared the potting shed so I can actually pot in it!
Prepped new beds for sowing with loads of soil improver, horse manure and my own compost, which if I say so myself, it's looking pretty marvellous stuff. Get yourself a worm farm people, vermicast is the business!

I'm posting this the day after because by the time I had finished I was so knackered it took me all of my strength to crawl into bed!
It's going to be a good year. I can feel it.
Enjoy your gardening folks

[ugley_matt]

This morning i finished making a shelf system to stack 4 trays on the worktop in the utility room, all before 8am!! I must be keen. Then i had to go to work. boooo!

[buzzingtalk]

Planted chilli, more toms, peppers, cucumbers in pots for propogator indoors.
Planted some salad leaves and rocket in seed trays in blowaway outdoors.
Swept outside and moved pots and blowaway about to make the most of the sun.