What I did today 2012-2014

[Two_Sheds]

- had the last Garden Club until Easter (phew)
- cleared out all the supplies, had a good tidy up of my paperwork, and put it all to bed for winter
- hung fir cones as a winter decoration, from the overhead trellis
- put sacks of leaves on top of patches of stubborn weeds, to kill them off
- hung up more fat balls for the birds now that frost & ice have arrived
- planted out some 2p bags of narcissus bulbs (Wilko's sale of sales)
- gathered bags of seaweed off the beach, chopped it and left on beds as a mulch

[VirginVegGrower]

Sorted out my seed drawer and made space for more, which came rather rapidly. Spent a lovely afternoon checking on my favourite grape, which is doing well considering the cold weather.

[hamamelis]

Went down the lottie, because I freecycled my apple tree, and a nice lady came to pick it up- I bought it before I got the plot, not knowing my neighbour would be the community orchard... Oops.

Finished digging out the last lower bed, so I just need to finish the mini one by the shed, the autumn raspberry bed, and extend the strawberry patch a last little bit and that's all the beds I can fit in. Hopefully, this will give me space to grow almost all of my squash and pumpkin collection next year. Hopefully.

Glared at the ratbag magpies that pulled out all my just germinating broadies, then left them on the ground without even eating them. Them things are making me reconsider being vegetarian... Then the rain started up, so I left.

[Aberdeenplotter]

Glared at the ratbag magpies that pulled out all my just germinating broadies, then left them on the ground without even eating them. Them things are making me reconsider being vegetarian... .

four and twenty black(and white) birds baked in a pie.

[hawthorns]

replaced shed guttering. repaired compost bins. edged paths. general tidy up

[Acanthus]

Replanted the garlic which had pushed itself out of the ground, dug up some yellow raspberry canes which had wandered to give to a friend, watered the peas and broadies in the poly, picked slugs off some caulis in the poly,potted up some strawberry runners and moved a red currant

[Jamesy_uk]

More digging on the new allotment plot, half done and half to go should have it ready for next year no problem. Picked up a couple of parsnips, some roosters that hadn't been dug up and a nice sized cauliflower for tea.

[Feral007]

Mowed two sections of the yard and fixed the electric around the clothesline. Son made a hot compost pile, then we aerated and hayed up last years veg garden and watered it. Took out 3 leeks, move a cosmos, and found 3 potatoes that self seeded. Pulled out all the long grass around the curved bed and laid it flat so it can break down. Put the littlest tomato plant to bed under a sheet as it's going to be a little cold tonight. Waited for rain but it didn't arrive. Put up the Christmas tree and found the lights.

[StephenH]

Went to the lotty earlier, intending to water the brussels sprouts inside the polytunnel. Discovered that the Council have switched off the water supply. However, the soil is still quite damp, so they didn't really need it anyway. Dug a bit more of the ground outside the pt where I'm going to grow my spuds next year, but it was too cold, and the ground to wet, for much of that, so |I gave up, cut some Swiss Chard to have with Sunday dinner (pork), and came home again.

[Two_Sheds]

- cut back the shrubs a bit (forsythia, honeysuckle, quince) just because they're in the way
- pruned the sprawling rose, and potted up lots of cuttings
- went through the greenhouse, watering what needed it (lightly), cutting off dead leaves, chucking away the dead stuff
- collected a further 3 sacks of autumn leaves (that must be 40 now)

[veggiechicken]

Hacked at brambles and pruned raspberries. Trying to sort out the fruit patch ready for spring.
There are fresh green buds on the raspberries and currant bushes - don't they realise its December
Picked some lovage for soup - that too looks very vibrant as it might look midsummer - no sign of it dying back . Makes me wonder whether its a 2nd lot of growth

[Aberdeenplotter]

Pricked out 80 tasco onions from bought seed and a similar amount from seed saved from a good shaped tasco onion. Tasco is a hybrid so I may get a reversion to the shape of one of the parent plants but there's a certain sense of adventure trying it out as Tasco is no longer on the market. Also pricked out some red baron. Never have had success growing these from sets as they bolt easily so trying from seed this time

[Snadger]

Spent the afternoon ankle deep in mud in one of my chook runs. In an effort to give them another dry area I dragged a humungus sheet of 1/4" thick perspex into the run and proced to wrestle it into position aloft. The run Has wire netting over the top so eventually I managed to wedge it up under the wire netting.
I only had trainers on and keptfalling over chooks so was a reet bonny mess!

Went home and packeted up some self saved tomato seeds after downloading templates and making the packets for them.

[Feral007]

Snadger, hope you didn't tread on too many of the chooks in the process!

I just went to work and got nothing constructive done because all my pregnant ladies have got placenta brain and don't turn up, and don't answer their phones, and ......oh sod it!

[sammy_roser]

Had a look at my new raised bed and realised it wasn't completly level where I put it in! Note to self never do DIY when not feeling well.

Had a tidy up of the garden, cut away the dead bits of plants, raked up a bag of leaves.

There are fresh green buds on the raspberries and currant bushes - don't they realise its December

Tell that to my rhubarb which has two new stalks!