What I Did Today (Undercover)

[Thelma Sanders]

My Hispi cabbage seedlings died in the cold greenhouse, so I've just sown some more on the windowledge indoors - hopefully it'll warm up a tad by the time they need to go out there again!

[VirginVegGrower]

Thelma S - so sorry. Oh no and I can't get out to see mine. Fingers crossed and all that.

[plymouthred]

Bit late starting this year but today I have had a stock take, cleaned up my pots and scrubbed all my plant labels.

Off to the garden centre to get some compost later to start off my toms indoors as the greenhouse went down to -2.2 this week!! God only knows what it was registering outside in the back garden but the dogs sure aren't happy walking on the frozen grass or grassy bits!!

[VirginVegGrower]

My seedlings in the greenhouse are all fine...phewee. Cress in a pot had flopped in my sickness absence. Anyhow I have watered in there and in the poly. Garlic really thickening up now. Planted some more Broadies out. Mr VVG has made me another hanging shelf for my polytunnel. I am very happy

[Currysniffa]

Yesterday I got greenhouse #2 ready for the season ahead. I've had the beds covered all winter so no weeding needed. I just tuned the soil over and did a little light hoeing then recovered.




Sorry for the large photo

[VirginVegGrower]

Wrapped everything up and over.

[SarzWix]

Went down to knock snow off the tunnel (most had blown off anyway) and discovered that I haven't quite killed all the cabbage seedlings 'Bout half of them have perked up under the fleece I threw over them, yay!

[dogsbody]

Been out ot my two negelected greenhouses and cleared all the old compost pots out and tried to clear the couch grass and thistles growing through the gravel beds.

Can anyone recommend a good wildlife friendly weedkiller that would deal with the underlying couch grass and thistle roots in the gravel beds? All my veggies and plants are grown in pots or on staging.

It is a last resort but after years of hand pulling these weeds - and losing - I have to be realistic....

[Currysniffa]

Can anyone recommend a good wildlife friendly weedkiller that would deal with the underlying couch grass and thistle roots in the gravel beds? All my veggies and plants are grown in pots or on staging.

I'd use Round-up but that's me.

[Currysniffa]

Walked down to the new plot and cleared the snow from greenhouse #1's roof. Stuck around for half an hour drinking coffee and filming a little video.. It will take me an hour to walk up to greenhouse #2 in this snow so I'm going to leave that one till tomorrow.

[Thelma Sanders]

Sowed my Bulgarian Giant leeks at last, I'll keep them on my cold windowledge for a few days til the worst of the cold weather is over - then put them out in the cold greenhouse

[VirginVegGrower]

I got the snow off the poly and noted it was 12°c. I did the same off the greenhouse and it was 8°c. Outside was 5°c.

[Darwin.]

I put a raised bed in the greenhouse, just down one side. If I want to do the other side I'll need a stone cutting disc for an angle grinder because the concrete is sloped rather than straight. I intend putting in a wooden frame down the side I raised and having stuff grow at waist height too, I'll put shelves at the back for tools and empty pots etc.



It's bolted into the concrete so it's very stable, the bit along the inside is well screwed into the other bits and if it was 1 mm longer it wouldn't fit between the front and back bits of concrete so it's well secure too. It should definitely support a frame for a higher bed on top.

[SarzWix]

Looks great!

I called into the allotment after the meeting at lunchtime and was astounded at how warm it was in the tunnel to say we've had no sunshine at all. I had to take my coat off!

[VirginVegGrower]

I knocked snow off again today, sowed strawberry seeds into trays. Also pricked out a few more toms. Left it at that as too cold. Brrrrrrr!