What I Did Today Archive 2011

[binley100]

potted on and pricked out whatever needed it. Just in case I haven't enough grandma from next door gave me three plant pots full of tom seedlings (variety? haven't a clue.......she plants seed from shop bought toms ! ) shuffled plants around , now have most toms in the gh....
Popped to lottie to do caterpillar picking and watering....came home and made blackberry jam with fruit harvested from the freezer......

[mrpaulbradley]

Today and yesterday I got tore-in about my front garden which was looking a tad sorry for itself. All the love and attention prior to then, going to the veg garden at the rear.

[davidgrose]

planted peas and beans outside under cloches in my allotment, planted up tomatoes. please let it rain

[VirginVegGrower]

Yesterday I repotted my purple sprouting broccoli. Watered all seedlings too.

[susieq100]

Yesterday - spread the weed suppressant fabric around the back of the greenhouse, down the one side, between the raised beds. OH and I barrowed and spread 2/3 of a big sack of gravel over the space. Put a couple of barrow loads in the greenhouse on the floor - what a difference! Ran out of fabric so had to make a foray to Poundland. Dug up an indeterminate bush by the side of the greenhouse - it was definitely a bush rather than a shrub. Quite pretty leaves but in the way I'm afraid. Took it to a piece of waste land near our housing estate and replanted it there! Guerilla gardening.

In the afternoon I planted out some sweetpeas around a wigwam and also put some in a big tub around a wigwam. The gravelling is to be completed today!

[Organic Kitchen Gardens]

Sowed 3 varieties of runner beans, 3 of courgettes, sweetcorn 'Minipop', red cabbage and savoy cabbage. All in pots in greenhouse (except cabbages) to avoid slug feasts. Greenhouse now full to bursting, I think anyone who grows their own never has enough space!!!
Weeded.
Did a rain dance. Doesn't seem to have worked, will try again.

[susieq100]

Yes - finished the gravelling - looks really smart! Hurrah.

[Florence Fennel]

Potted on toms and aubergines. I have no more windowsill space for aubergines, so they've had to be left outside, but they are in 2 litre plastic bottle cloches, so their own mini greenhouse I hope.

[crazii_c]

constructed a homemade wigwam using bamboo canes and lots of string. it'll be used for my mangetout to grow up.

[bearded bloke]

finished the fruit cage at last .....



C/W mains water & a couple of shelves for "hardening off" seedlings safe from the local wood pigeons ......


Even fitted a proper "smithie" forged ornament ....


FBD is happy

[binley100]

Went over all beds on first plot, tidying, weeding and sowed some more parsnips, beetroot and carrots ( few more carrots then I intended due to slight accident with seed packet). planted more weed suppressant on second plot.......
Watered , faffed and said hello to sweetcorn seedlings at home.
Went to a committee meeting......

[bethduckie]

Lots of weeding, mowing, staking up some broad beans, eyeing up my rhubarb hungrily... a week or so till I can pick it yum yum!... but mainly weeding, today.They just grow so fast.

The other day I sowed some melon seeds, cucumber, hunter squash as my first lot seem to have rotted before germinating, and some corn. Oh and some mangetout. Yumyum!

[bearded bloke]

Planted out Peas,Broad Beans,Courgettes & Cucumbers (2litre clotch's) ,added vital metallic elements to the soil will post a pic t'moz

[Two_Sheds]

- planted out about 100 Markana peas (chitted)
- watered the new transplants (lettuce & garlic)
- hoed a bit
- started hardening off the indoor plants for their summer hols on the patio
- sowed leeks, shallots & even more flowers
- planted parsnips & Sparkler radishes
- finally planted the Pink Fir Apples (in leafmold & comfrey leaves)
- gave the comfrey its 3rd cut of the year & filled up the tea bottles
- took loads of cuttings of Wandering Jew for the hanging baskets
- went up the school garden to water the new transplants (still can't get to the gh, it's locked inside)

[binley100]

Watered the Centenary garden and prepped area for onions to go in. Took part in an impromptu party for our Wally (89 and works 3 full plots ) Unfleeced my garlic and shallots , hopefully the allium miner fly has been and gone, unlike the little green caterpillars I'm still picking off the goosgogs. Admired the crimson boreds that are coming into flower. Picked rhubarb . Came home pricked out celeriac . Made goosgog (harvested from the freezer) and elderflower(cheated using cordial ) jam to sell on sunday at our Easter funday.