What I Did Today Archive 2011

[frogga]

I built the polytunnel that I bought my oh for Christmas, dug the whole area, laid a couple of slabs for a walkway through it and then sowed: carrots, beetroot, salad leaves,spinach, spring onions, chard and lettuce.

[Jelliebabe]

Over the last coupla days I planted my 1st early potato's (Arran Pilot) and my salad potato's (Nicola), shallots and onions - giant stuttgater white and Red baron - errrr RED! LOL

YAY Mr JB weeded my paths for me at the lottie! YAY

[VirginVegGrower]

Went to Ryton and bought more seeds. Sowed some cuke Crystal Lemon. Planted a DA Rose into large terracotta planter outside greenhouse. Up at 7am doing some weeding in borders. Left other half clearing brassica bed on lottie. He also put in another raised bed for my taters which I plant tomorrow!
Bought some Russian Comfrey too for organic feeding.

[binley100]

Worked on the last area to be sorted on the centenary garden , which is raised beds for fruit. We had some unpaid volunteer workers who started on the renovations on the shed for us , laying slabs to create an under cover seating area. Meanwhile OH put in fence posts on our new plot for a rabbit proof fence.

[JamesM]

Sowed carrots, onions, parsnips direct into pots. Spring onion and spinach into pots in blowaway and some parsnips into loo rolls.

Just from reading back- not too early for lettuce an giant sunflowers to be sown in a blowaway?

[Newton]

- went to Barcelona, bought seeds Barcelona 2011 - a set on Flickr
- repotted more indoor chillies & tomatoes
- watered greenhouse stuff
- planted Kestrel & Charlotte spuds on lotty: took out earth, filled trenches with grass, comfrey & leafmould
- picked first armful of wallflowers

Aren't the seeds cheap over there.......I picked up a pack of chilli padron seeds for 1€50...bargain and there were about 500 or more seeds in the packet.....unlike over here! Why is that?

[perkin]

Constructed cane and twine support system for broad beans - looks like a mini boxing ring.
Planted out nasturtiums in broad bean bed.
Persuaded OH to turn over the compost heaps - and found a volunteer rhubarb growing in one of them!
Sowed more shallots in modules in gh.
Proudly inspected spinach, mixed lettuce and beetroot seedlings.
Dug up the only 6 leeks that I managed to grow from last year to make room for more sugar snap pea sowing.
Put plastic bottle cloches over emerging purple podded pea seedlings to outwit the local slugs.

[lottieanne]

planted 1 row shallots, 5 rows white onions and 3 rows red onions :-)

[Newbie]

Over the weekend i have planted my 1st Early seeds spuds in pots in the greenhouse & sown a half seed tray each of: Morning Glory, Zinnia (purple prince), Coreopsis (tincture), Trifolium (rubens), Salvia (seascape mix), Aquilegia (sunshine), Basil (purple & green), Pak Choi and Spinach. Also sowed a row of Early carrots, however as we had frost this morning i am not expecting them to come to much.

[bethduckie]

Sowed sprouts, PSB, red cabbage, broccoli and basil in modules and into the blowaway

At the weekend was at the lottie and sowed parsnips and constructed some raised beds. They were very cheap and aren't very good, some split as I was banging them together. Never mind. You get what you pay for, I suppose!

[Gurberly]

Sowed parsips, carrots and peas direct outside. Talked to the single aspargus spear that has poked his head out.

Prayed for rain.

[Snadger]

Added some more bits of glas/perspex/anything I could get my hands on, to ny greenhouse. Mainly corex type stuff though as the triangular fiddly bits are hard to cut from glass. (Did I mention the ridiculous fact that Wicke's , one of the biggest hardware chains in the country,don't sell glass cutters)
One of these days I may get some proper gardening done instead of DIY!

[Florence Fennel]

Yesterday, finally managed to tidy my pot area. Repotted my Bay Tree which is sadly looking as though it has given up the ghost. Cleared my beds of the flower sprout plants and started to fork over a bed for my runners.

[trolleydolly]

Cleaned out the shed, now I can finally find things!

[bearded bloke]

Mainly planting seeds in trays & cells