What I Did Today Archive 2011

[susieq100]

Yesterday - stripped wallpaper from kitchen walls. Aaargghhhh!

[Florence Fennel]

Split and repotted some mint.
Sowed some more radishes.
Fed my pumpkins with my own comfrey tea. Wow it stinks!

[rustylady]

Watered and re-shuffled everything in the greenhouse. Watered all the stuff that is outside the greenhouse, hardening off ready to go to the lottie. Went to the lottie this afternoon, with youngest daughter and her son (20 months), Did some weeding, some digging, and a lot of watering.

[Snadger]

Got up at 6.30 am. loaded the car up with a bag of sand,three bags of topsoil and a cheap 40l (£1.99) from Aldi bag of peat free compost.
Got to the allotments for 8.00am and unloaded my swag. Mixed the whole lot together on the greenhouse floor with some fertiliser added and this was the mix that I potted my peepers into.
Had them all potted up (about 2 dozen) by 9.30am when I jumped back in the car and went and bought my fortnights supply of layers pellets for the chooks (5 X 20kg bags)
Back at the allotment unloaded the chook food and could smell a rather nausius smell in my shed!
Had a good tidy out of the shed and found where the smell was coming from......a rats nest. I had some large bubble wrap stored in there for the winter double glasing of the greenhouse.
Lit the woodburner and burned all the areas where the rats had been nesting. Tidied the shed And sprayed with industrial strength cleaner.

Sorted chooks food, water and egg collection then set to on my planned jobs for the day. Tidied the greenhouse out first. Planted lots of Hispi cabbage. Planted a dozen chrysanths. Took leeks from tray and planted them in a clump to thicken up for later planting.
Planted some clubroot resistant cabbage. Put a load of flower plants outside to harden off. Did loads of weeding. Planted three clumps of swedes.
I had to rig up little mesh guards over each planting to try and stave off the flying rats. Tried some of the brassicas with pipes around them.
Urgent job requiring attention this week.............buy some maincrop carrot seeds (can't find ones i bought earlier in the year) and get them sown!

[gillian62]

Weeding again - 3 buckets full - so the chucks were happy when I brought them home for them this eve.
Got my blue hoops covered with voile - with a bit of extra sewing as it wasn't wide enough to cover them. They look very fetching - hope my neighbours enjoy the view. Hope it keeps the brassicas growing without the pests.
Got the whole allotment watered, including 2 compost heaps that I have put atlantic giant pumpkin plants into. Grass tidied up after cutting it the other day.

[rustylady]

Lottie this afternoon, with daughter and two grandsons. More bladdy weeding and digging. Baby grandson very helpful, older one not interested. Picked some peas and ate them there and then.

[Snadger]

Finally got my maincrop carots sown this evening. Sowed some curly kale in a pot and burried it in the soil next to a pot full of PSB sown today.
Planted out 5 Kilaton cabbages and put plastic pipes around them to keep the pigeons off.

I planted some Ne Plus Ultra peas the other day and sowed a row direct on the other side of the netting. I think the mice have eaten them all so I planted the half tray of Blue lake french beans i had lying aropund in there place. Peas one side of nettingand beans on other side...............should be interesting!

Did lots of weeding until I got sick then came home!

[Two_Sheds]

- watered the school plots
- watered the front garden
- watered the lotty (still no rain since 1st week of April)
- ran out of compost room, so upturned 2 daleks & immediately refilled with weeds & old wallflowers
- potted on chillies & toms, moved a lot of stuff out of the gh at last
- planted out courgettes, pumpkins, shallots & French beans
- pruned the choisya back in order to plant lots of lovely flowers
- sowed more squashes, salad, brassicas, wallflowers and forget me nots
- chucked out all the pots of compost & ungerminated squash seeds (most of them)
- started chitting suspicious seed (I've had really poor germination from T&M this year, & want to take them to task about it)
- moved a bumblebee nest away from the playground to a more private spot
- planted up 2 wall baskets at school (they chose: pink, purple & yellow flowers)
- finally got round to digging out another stubborn patch of couch in the wildlife area. It's been under cardboard for 8 months & is now much easier to get out

[Loudbarker1]

At the weekend I did nothing. (Wedding). Thank goodness we had an inch and a half of rain. Bt last night I got home early and transplanted dwarf french bean plants from hot house (left cold at this time of year) out into garden and under cloches to start hardening off process.

Alo harvetsd the first (very small) courgette (Defender F1) and for th efirst time ever, ate broad bean shoots - steamed with butter and pepper. Very nice: a beany mix of asparagus and spinage.

[Florence Fennel]

Potted on some Calabrese Marathon, I have nowhere to put them yet, so growing them on a bit. Planted out 4 courgettes, I've been sitting on my hands for these because they were rubbish when I sowed early last year in buckets. They're in the ground again this time. Stirred the comfrey tea and watered the stuff in the stayput.

[binley100]

Yesterday-weeding
today-weeding.....flamin'eck I was only gone a week and guess what tomorrows job will be ........

[Nes]

Started getting brassica netting up on frames made of bamboo poles strapped together. Not enough netting or chicken wire. Bother - had hoped to plant out lots this weekend. Planted out 3 patty pans and had a think about what to with blackberries which are fast becoming triffid-like again. Did a bit of weeding, and harvested a delicious globe artichoke .

[rustylady]

Entertained youngest daughter and grandson, entertained middle daughter and her two children plus her friend and one of her sons. Potted up a tomato plant for said daughter's friend, fixed the leak on the washing machine. Now sitting here at the pooter waiting for the rain to start. It looks like it may

[Jelliebabe]

I did this!



And I planted out my gherkins at last! They've been in a blowaway sprawling so dug them into some lovely compost and tied them up. Now I KNOW its not a master craftsman jobbie or anything but I did do it allllll by my self and only hit one fingernail (no swearing either )

[susieq100]

At the plot after work last night for an hour - planted out some more climbing Frenchies - I have a wigwam already but they are windswept, windburned and looking a bit ragged. So these are my back up plan - I adore French beans. Gave a neighbour a tomato plant - well grown, with flowers and he reciprocated with some pea sticks! So I managed to 'stick' half a row of peas. Try and get the rest done today. Picked some strawberries and lifted my first real spuds.