What I did today 2012-2014

[hamesy]

Pulled up my courgette plants and some lettuce that had bolted.

Checked on my cold frames after some rabbits got in there last week Thankfully they were fine this week

Repotted the strawberry runners as the pots I put them in originally were a little small.

[MartinRSharpe]

Much more productive today than my last post
Cleared Sweetcorn (always slightly sad as they look so unusual in my parent's garden), Butternut Squash (there was only one tiny fruit left, and slugs had been at it) and some Cumcumber plants.
Garlic into Modules
Transplanted some corn salad into small tubs from modules
Dug over a bed ready for something to go into it.

Start to get everything ready for moving to the new house.... and most importantly new bigger and my own garden :-)

[Thelma Sanders]

couldn't do anything but sit inside and look at the rain for the fourth day running

[stella]

Planted some onion sets and salad leaves under a tunnel. Dug up a huge parsnip for lunch, picked some raspberries, loads of weeding mostly in the rain

[Marcher]

Cleared up leaves, noticed the oriental greens have began sprouting and the forced bulbs are progressing slowly.

I also noticed this lovely ladybird on my fig plant:

[binley100]

lifted some of the cardboard weed smothering stuff in the fruit cage to make a strawberry bed . Dug it all over removing tons of couch grass. Hopefully will get to finish it off tomorrow. OH reused some timber to redo the rotton floor in the shed as part of the ongoing shed improvement programme. Rescued a newt we found floating in the water butt and placed him safely near the pond in some cover , then gave him a slug to eat.

[Tripmeup]

Took up all Courgette, Cucumber and Marrow plants
Planted Radar onion sets
Transplanted Hi-Ball onions (grown from seed) from modules into ground

[Likac66]

Emptied the greenhouse - took out and composted all the tomato plants but saved some of the chillis. Harvested most of the green tomatoes to ripen indoors.

Washed the greenhouse down with a ***** Fluid mixture and then bubblewrap insulated it. Put the chillis back in inside a plastic covered greenhouse so hoping they will get extra warmth. Might throw some flleece over them as well.

Planted out garlic and some broccoli that I planted into modules at the end of August and really should have planted out weeks ago. Well, we'll see what happens with it.

Can't believe how much my legs and shoulders ache - didn't think I'd really done that much. Still got a load of onions, spinach and kale to plant out properly.

[Loudbarker1]

I also noticed this lovely ladybird on my fig plant:

This looks like the dreaded Harlequin ladybird: squash it quick!

Harlequin Ladybird: Unravelling the story of an alien invader

[Loudbarker1]

This weekend mostly rained and drizzled. But I still got outside and did sone catching up:

Harvested runner beans (positivelythe last) svoy cabbage, turnips and had for tea with roast chicken and home grown potatoes.

Planted broad beans (aquadulce claudia) in loo rolls and small pots in mother's greenhouse.

Transplanted some perpetual spinage.

A little bit of weeding.

Noticed wheelbarrow full of well rotted compost is now completely waterlogged and probably ruined. Should have covered with a plastic sheet. Bother.

[Florence Fennel]

Saturday. Five hours of hard labour composting the tomato plants. I built a kind of "pen" lined with cardboard and tipped them all in. I'm hoping to make a lasagne bed that I can plant potatoes into in the Spring. Another bit of lawn bites the dust! I made a vow to myself that next year I'm not going to grow so many tomatoes, I don't know where I don't ache.

[hamamelis]

Planted some shallots more garlic and aquadulce beans, shook my fist at the crows that have pulled out and scoffed half the onions.

Barrowed a few more loads of leafmould on to another of the beds, before the council shows up and dumps a fresh heap of leaves on top of all the good stuff. I'm lengthening all the beds, and only three more need doing, but it was a bit too soggy to dig them today. Picked probably the last strawberry faintly worth picking, before the traditional English Drizzle^tm started up again.

[Snadger]

Played a bit more with my pantiles (well, actually set another three in position for my raised carrot bed)

Sowed a tray full of Aquadulce Claudia broad beans.

Decided that next year I'm going to erect a polytunnel with mesh sides over two of my four foot wide beds with a two foot path in between and fill one bed with chrysanths and one bed with gladioli. The beds are 8 metres long so should hold enough plants to give me cut flowers over a sustained period.

[PyreneesPlot]

Picked & cooked last of the runners (beans not pods). Collected a bin full of leaves and the trees have only just started to turn.

[susieq100]

Yesterday. Delivered a load of carpet to the plot for path re-laying purposes, harvested one Golden Delicious apple which was scoffed on the spot. Back over the weekend to actually start doing the paths. I have bark chips, I have carpet, now I need the will and the weather.