What I Did Today Archive 2011

[Newton]

Transferred a row of broad beans in root tubes to allotment
Ditto with peas started in root trainers although there was only one root and it was already coming out the bottom. Hope they are ok.

Planted a grow bag tray of mizuna and cut and come again lettuce. A seed tray of rocket and a module tray of French breakfast radish.

Erected a polythene cloche over most of the peas

Weeded....

[lottieanne]

sat in an office wishing I was on the lottie

[Hole Digger]

Planted the last of 116 seed potatoes and sowed celery in propagator

[Potstubsdustbins]

Finnished jet washing the patio's.

Sieved loads of compost from the `dalek` and used that to plant up 6 dustbins with Lady Christl earlies.

Colin

[Snadger]

Off work this week so I progressed with the 'L' shaped greenhouse project.
Tried my hand (not very successfully) at cutting glass. Stripped glass out of old wooden window frames but needed to cut them to size.
Had about a 75% success rate with a blunt cutter (would you believe that Wickes, one of the biggest hardware/DIY chains in the country, don't sell glass cutters!)
I'm afraid the triangular pieces on the ridges are going to have to be perspex as my glass cutting skill just doesn't 'cut the mustard'

[Potstubsdustbins]

Snadger,

Do you have a Screwfix trade counter near you. 6 Wheel glass cutter £2-53p + vat.

When cutting glass make sure the glass is clean on both side's. Lay on a flat soft surface pro's use velvet. Make one score mark using a straight edge, lift glass and place a matchstick or similar under either end of the score mark and press down either side of mark. Another way but less reliable is to score as above turn glass over and gently tap the score mark on the reverse side, the glass will spilt along the mark.

A little practice and you will soon be cutting like a pro.

Colin

[selfraising]

Potted up 18 lupin seedlings and the did some weeding in front garden. Pleased to see that Parsnips are coming through from pre chitted seeds.

[Newbie]

Yesterday saw our lawn get its first cut of the year, after that i edged half of the flower beds and re-cut the edging in places where it was needed. Then my lovely neighbour (who's a chicken farmer) delivered me two wheelbarrows worth of well rotted chicken manure!

[Gardenwitch]

Items today

Bought some seeds to plant in soon:
White Gem Parsnip Giant sunflowers
Watermelon Beetroot
French Marigolds Basil

Gathered some treats for the lotty:
Terracotta thermometer Large Plant stakes
Chinese lantern lights Work gloves

Did some weeding, checked on rhubarb

[Sylvan]

Washed 55 pots. Now I'm exhausted.
The rest will have to wait till tomorrow.

[wellie]

Completely emptied the Peach Greenhouse, took up the mypex, found a frog I never knew I had in there, and repositioned my dad's metal cabinets in the drafty dutch greenhouse to be able to finally sort out my horticultural 'clutter' from the Peach Greenie, so that this summer, I can grow directly into the soil rather than in pots in there.
One of those days where you have to make a huge amount of mess in order to get some sembl.sembl.kind of order. Hugely satisfying, and fed the frog a couple of slugs.....
Thank you for listening.X

[SeedMad]

Potted on all of my chillies

chinese pot chilli
trinidad scorpion
satans kiss
bhut jolokia
peter pepper
rocoto
orange habanero
numex twilight

phew

[Potstubsdustbins]

Carried on sieveing and bagging the compost from the darlek, not much more to do now.

Potted on my tomato seedlings whilst taking a breather.

Sat in my shirt sleeves with SWMBO drinking tea in the glorious sunshine, it was truely wonderful today.

Colin

[mandyballantyne]

Thanks for sharing xx

[selfraising]

Pricked out Nicotiana seedlings and placed in unheated gh.