What I Did Today Archive 2011

[binley100]

On little lottie planted ou the last few crimson flowered boreds, sowed a row of carrots . Received a gift of some frogspawn for the pond.
Big lottie prepped area ready to plant my maincrop spuds, fetched two barrow loads of chippings for paths.
In gh pricked out dianthus, gaillardia and marigolds.....

[JamesM]

Transplanted some more parsnip seedlings that have germinated in loo rolls into it's final growing spot in a pot under a cloche

[pepperted123]

Put all the seedlings from the greenhouse out in the sunshine and weeded the raised bed + Clarinet practice....perhaps I should play to the plants :-)

[buzzingtalk]

Potted on all of the plants from my seed trays - 6x beefsteak toms, 8x gardeners delight, 5x basil, 3x coriander, 4x marigold.

Cleaned out blowaway, pricked out salad trays, potted up chive seedlings in my larger chive pot outdoors. Fed all strawberry plants and the garlic pots too. Potted on 11 alpine strawberry plants.

My bedroom is now full to the brim with seedlings, there is no more space and they are still tiny!!! It's going to be very full in here in a few weeks!!

Tomorrow I have 30 odd strawberry plants to repot!

[Suky]

Pricked out some of the tomatoes, peppers and aubergine. Sowed some more sweetcorn since the Seville damped off. Put up a new mini blowaway and moved cabbage, leek, cauli and sprout seedlings in along with sweetpeas and beetroot, making way for the tomatoes etc in the greenhouse.

[Bren In Pots]

Apart from the daily in and out to the greenhouse with my toms, I've planted out a few pots of spring onions, spinach and mixed lettuce. Then this afternoon I've sown courgettes and cucumbers.

[binley100]

Potted on toms, played musical plants between the conservatory, gh and blowaways. Sowed some pretties,courgettes and squashes(various varieties) cucs and gherkins (DC you can sow yer gherkins now )
Weeded and tidied round the garden, front and back. Seed bombed the back garden with a mix of cornflowers, larkspur and california poppies (hope it works) Just need the lawn cutting now but ran out of time.

[Snadger]

Planted a couple of pockets of Sturon onion sets. Unearthed some of last years Kestrel potatoes that I'd missed so put them with this years seed spuds that are chitting in the greenhouse.
Watered all seedtrays in greenhouse. It would have been a nice relaxing evening if it hadn't been for the wind.

[Newbie]

Cut the grass, weeded the driveway in front & beside the house - now it looks like someone owns it, weeded one of the flower beds, brought the tubs & baskets from in front of the house back to the greenhouse in preparation for a tidy up & replant, watered the greenhouse.

[bramble]

Potting on dahlia, verbena, lobelia, and geranium seedlings. Potting on tomato and pepper plants for the second time now. The tomatoes in particular are growing very fast now. my Kimberley and Stupice have the first tiny buds on now.

[VirginVegGrower]

Played musical plants on the benches, like Binley! Potashed the figs and mulched. Fed the vine.
Sowed Pumpkin Jack O Lantern (yesterday)
Today I sowed Courgette Black Beauty, Marrow Di Nizza, Sweetcorn Strawberry Popcorn, Sweetcorn Minipop, Runner Bean Painted Lady, Butternut Squash. I earthed up my bagged potatoes. Watered seedlings. Put three Shirley tomato plants into my greenhouse growbag and gave them a drink of seaweed.
Fell and sprained my ankle whilst going back to refill the watering can which stopped my next planned job of sanding and painting the greenhouse.

[Bren In Pots]

Spent the morning helping my fave niece who's just moved in around the corner to dig her veg plot, our gardens meet so for the first time I've got a gardening buddy.

[binley100]

Checked that the first toms to be moved into the gh were happy ....
Mowed the lawn and strimmed round the edges and dog track .............
Went to work ,on the way visited wilkinsons, (bought liners for baskets,and a bulb planter, ) and toured the pound shops(liners for hanging baskets and some little pots) .......

[Newbie]

Today after resurrecting the fruit frame around the Gooseberry & Currant bed i sowed, Courgette Romanesco x3, Artichoke Green globe x4, Ornamental Gourds x4 and Pumpkins - Crown Prince x2, Uchiki Kuri x2 and Cobnut x2. Also discovered a mushroom kit in the garage that i'd been given for Christmas so set that up too. Oh, and also earthed up the pot grown spuds in the greenhouse.

[Snadger]

Planted a pocket of gladioli. Planted a pocket of garlic.