What I Did Today Archive 2011

[Snadger]

Today I took the opportunity to seal the greenhouse roof with black silicone. I found a box of of out of date stuff in a skip (actually my son got me it from the skip where he works) It is BLACK, but beggars can't be choosers.
The frame is wood with large sheets of glass so hopefully as well as making it waterproof it will stop the roof from blowing away!

Tried a sowing of swedes in my cold frame which has just vacated a rather sizeable crop of japanese overwintered onions.
I have other swedes planted out which were grown in modules but thought I would try a late direct sowing.
Harvested some Duke of York tatties along with a spring cabbage. Just finished eating the tatties.......a tasty treat.
Planted out some Dill and various flowers along with weeding,weeding and more weeding.

[Veggie Mackem]

Picked up netting from scaffold suppliers as good deed for a fellow allotmenteer (white, not my prefered colour), fed toms and cumbers in the greenhouse, applied copper tape to aubergine pots (slugs must like these as nothing else is touched.....touch wood), checked modules of seedling turnips, pak choi, all year lettuce and little gems all second sowings of the season, turnips and pak choi ready for planting out Sunday, lettuce a little longer I think......... no drive to the plot this evening, that's 2 nights in a row.... yeah you guessed..... raining again, that's been every day this week!!

[binley100]

Had a training day at work but got out early so ran the dog around the block then popped up t'lottie. Where I planted out some peppers I'd been given , sowed some carrots, beetroot, peas and beans. Picked raspberries. Watered in the gh and the celery (cue rain ) popped some plants in the centenary garden. Rain stopped play so came home did watering here had a delicious tea cooked by eldest and then osrted raspberries for the freezer and made 3lb cherry jam . Still have butties to make for our day trip to Tatton park tomorrow and a few t'other bits and bobs to sort .......oh and I also wrestled with our duvet cover and sorted washing as well as washing up ......is it time for bed yet?

[susieq100]

Yesterday after work, down to the plot. Weeded, then I weeded some more and then I did some more weeding! Cleared some space on a neighbour's plot as he is letting me use it for my cabbages and swedes. Then the heavens opened so came home and OH and I went to the pub for a pint! Back to the plot sometime today to plant cabbages and swedes and do some harvesting ... that is what makes it all worthwhile.

[rustylady]

Yesterday afternoon Spotty went home, the rain stopped, so I went to the lottie. Weeding, weeding and more weeding - lordy they have grown since the rain!! Picked peas, raspberries, lettuce and the first three courgettes. Runner beans (White Emergo) have flowers on, but aren't very tall yet.

[bethduckie]

Lots of weeding and watering, some pulling up of vegetables, and general conversation with other allotmenteers.

Planted some more purple and yellow bush beans from seed in hope of getting a late crop. There were brassicas in those beds, but I never got round to netting them and the birds had a feast *grin* luckily they were only the spares, the best brassica plants went under the netting

[binley100]

Today I went on an outing to Tatton park . What a amazing place . None of their veg was netted and yup some had been nibbled but there was soooo much it didn't seem to matter.
This evening discovered a leak in t'airing cupboard and now have a pile of soggy quilts to wash but I don't care cos they stopped the leak from coming through the ceiling .....

[susieq100]

Yesterday afternoon, planted out a dozen green pointed cabbages, a dozen red pointed cabbages and 2 rows of swedes, netted them up. Lifted some spuds for supper, pulled a skinny garlic and we used the scafe (is that right?) for the chicken casserole, picked lots of raspberries, strawberries and rhubarb and am now about to look for a recipe for rhubarb and strawberry jam that I saw in a recent thread on the Making the Most Forum. Happy days.

[Florence Fennel]

Yesterday planted out calabrese, spaghetti squash, another pumpkin and two cucumber, some little yellow squash (can't remember what they're called) and courgettes. Got a bit more organised in the stayput too. Weekends just aren't long enough.

[binley100]

Did some weeding, did some planting, did some picking, did some watering , did some chatting .....and in between times did some washing ....now absolutely knackered . T'was a good day

[Loudbarker1]

A bit of weeding, and lots of watering of pot/grow bags - potates, tomatos, cucumber, tayberries,strawberries, blueberries, redcurrents, rosecurrents.

Transplanted lettuce: yugoslavia red, little gem, red gem, all year round. with slug pellets round.

Picked broad beans (imperial green long pod) salad, dug new potatos (Arran pilot)

Pulled loads of bind weed -probably worst garden pest I have.

Picked tayberries, strawberries

Picked courgettes (soleil, defender)

[Snadger]

Four hours weeding with shirt top off! Paying for it today!

[Two_Sheds]

- potted on tomato armpits, deadheaded roses etc with bikini on (first outing this year)
- collected aquilegia seeds from a plant that I hand pollinated - fingers crossed it's a good colour
- pulled up poppies-gone-over (but saving the best for seed - originally from Zazen)
- picked peas (from Flummery) and a bowl of toms (from seed parcel)
- planted up two new containers with fuchsia, lobelia & gypsophila, all grown myself
- weeded, a lot
- planted the last batch of dwarf Frenchies
- sowed lots of mooli, more peas. Netted the remaining peas as the birds are pecking them to stumps
- dug up all the bolted lettuce, left them for the lotty chickens
- upended a dalek & resited it on the fruit bed

[Florence Fennel]

Pricked out some cabbage. Fed and watered squashes, pumpkins, courgettes and cucumbers. Gave the poor toms a bit of seaweed feed (I'm trying to nurture them back to health and there is now some new growth). Dog sitting for Chester while 13 13-year old girls at my GGs birthday party.

[Welsh Wizard]

Lifted my shallots: Planted at the tail end of 2010, they have performed far beyond my expectations: I have boxes and boxes of damn fine shallots! Quality is very good this year: I think the hard winter and drought agrees with the shallots. Not so my garlic, which has been terrible this year, with hardly any decent size bulbs as yet.

Now just have the fun task of deciding what to put in the allium bed: I fancy a few radishes, coriander, carrots, peas and raddichio... will it all fit?