What I did today 2012-2014

[Tripmeup]

Put up new stakes and tied in my raspberry canes....
Mowed lawns
Filled up potato sacks with grass clippings to "earth" up the (hopefully) Christmas spuds...

[amandaandherveg]

Well yesterday and today really.....

Fixed a row of 8' posts, dug shallow ditch and planted my Tullameen rasp hedge. Potted on polyanthus and pansies, emptied out summer hanging baskets and used spent compost to start off a new lasagne bed. Tidied up strawb bed and rhubarb patch, hoed and bagged up leaves ready for the leaf bin (when I finish it). Harvested the last of the runner beans, planted out beetroot, onions and garlic in the PT and swept the decking.

[BarleySugar]

Laid cardboard over another vacant bed and covered with guinea pigs cleanings.
Sorted out my shed, it's surprising how much space there is in there now that all the accumulated rubbish has gone.
Sorted garlic cloves ready to plant (hopefully tomorrow).
Found some unplanted seed potatoes that were so desperate to grow they had baby potatoes on their sprouts.
Added dried chicken manure to the grow beds that I had tomatoes in, ready to sow salad leaves and winter gem lettuces.

[BarleySugar]

Another session at the plot today, lovely weather, and I took my soup up for lunch so I didn't have to come home.
I got the garlic planted, chopped down the yellowing asparagus fern (last year it was confused and sending up new spears at this time, and then weeded out all the creeping buttercup that had crept in

[VirginVegGrower]

Raking leaves until I have blisters again. The leaf cage is already two thirds full and I have only just started. I have already gained two blisters. I have also pulled everything out of my greenhouse in order to sulphur candle it, which is smoking away right now. I have also mulched some more with compost and leafmold. All in all I am jiggered Bath time

[horticultural_hobbit]

Wheel barrowed 13 bags of leaves to the plot. Emptied these between 4 builders bags.

Plugged in trays of petunias, primroses and pansies. Some of which had started to cease to exist. Received some more tulips bulbs. Found out that shallots had been delayed due to the Brittany ferry dispute.

[CaroltheCarrot]

came home from my hols, took a look at the garden and the plots and thought, o well, there's always next year!

[Florence Fennel]

Picking green tomatoes last night to ripen in the house and found loads with blight. Very disappointing, but as Carol says, there's always next year.

[vikkib]

Yesterday put this together:



Well I put the cushions on a chair then watched OH put it together whilst nursing a cuppa as I have a stinking cold!

Can't wait to feel a bit better so we can have an autumnal BBQ!

[PyreneesPlot]

Cleared the last of the old raspberry canes and weeded - there is a mulch to go on after some rain.
Cleared two courgette plants, weeded and added a barrow load of compost and bag of muck - overwintering beans and peas to go in here as soon as we have some rain. This area is beneath an oak tree so only does well in spring before the leaves come out and it turns really hot.
Planted out the last of the wallflowers and honesty.
Planted out some lettuces and sowed some more.
Tied in a climbing rose on the pergola.

[Feral007]

Planted out some honesty? You can grow honesty? Bit rare these days that is!

I watched the rain today. Not much else to do really.

But......omg.....I have put in an expression of interest in some chooks. Heaven help me!

[PyreneesPlot]

I'll be sending the excess to the bankers/politicians/Lance Armstrongs of this World.

[VirginVegGrower]

Mowed the lawns, filled another compost bin, raked more leaves into the cage, cut new circles around the fruit trees and mulched all with last year's leafmold. Had to stop when it got too dark to continue. Hope the weather holds so I can carry on tomorrow. Surveyed the orchard area and decided I can squeeze in a mulberry, so I need to go tree shopping at the weekend.

[lottie dolly]

dug up what few roots of pretend parsnips that actually geminated,now got a clear sweep for the continuation of my new lay out,lots to do yet

[horticultural_hobbit]

Sown some Aquadulce Claudia and suttons dwarf broadies.

Purple wight, bella Italiano and sprint garlic.

Senshyu onions too.

Now having another cuppa.