What I did today 2012-2014

[marcofez]

Collected some horse manure for my lottie.
Put 8 Barrow loads of compost from the communal compost heap on to my sweet corn bed and raked level. Afterwards I sowed some cayenne hot peppers, california sweet peppers, orange sun sweet peppers.

[marcofez]

Last day off before going to work over the weekend. Was to late to get to the plot today so didn't manage to do anything. But all those jobs that need doing.............
Ah well off in 4 days time, hoping to get something done then!!!!

[VirginVegGrower]

Carried on with the woodland corner at home. All hellebores, winter aconites and snowdrops are planted. Started clearing and cutting back in the borders. Have six to do. Filled a tonne builders bag twice over with the wet leaves. That's going to mean more than we have cage room for!

[Noosner]

Investigated the under-layers of the compost heap. Bingo! I can't believe it's possible to get such wonderful brown crumbly nutritious-looking stuff (speaking from a plant's eye-view) by just doing nowt for 18 months!

[Noosner]

Oh, and I'm hoping to plant some broadies at lottie tomorrow if it doesn't snow. I'm using The Sutton there this year because my Aguadulce did badly in 2102. The Sutton did brilliantly in the back garden until the slug and snail platoon arrived. Not so many of these slimy little fellers at lottie, so we'll see.

[Peppermint]

Had the day of work today, and it turned out that I'd picked the right day Sunshine and very little wind. Started in the potting shed, sowing some pansy and red campion seeds.

Dug up some leeks and some of the last golden wonder potatoes that are still in the ground. Just five more plants to dig up.

Started to sort out the Jerusalem Artichoke bed. Ended up digging up the whole crop, digging over the plot and planting some of the biggest back on the bed. 2012 was our first year of growing them and they haven't done as well as I hoped. It was a bad year weather-wise so I'm giving them another go. At the very least they provide a wind-break for my young willow trees

[rabbit]

Turned my turney compost bin after putting in some chicken manure pellets a bit of water and some veg scraps.

Lamented that the horse manure up for grabs bagged up outside the local stables was taken by another gardener. Lamented even more that the coffee grounds they've been saving for me at the work canteen were thrown away by a contract cleaner, and worse still, that the cleaner chucked the tub and the canteen need to wait for a bulk tub of mayonnaise to be used up before they can collect for me again! Woe!

Cheered myself up by weeding with my toddler, using the speedy weeder that I had as a gift for my birthday from a clever auntie. getting rid of some chunky dandelions whilst the little one enjoyed pressing the button to eject the pesky things! It was real fun and we only stopped because it started raining.

[FROSTYFRECKLE]

Keep forgetting to post on here. Just finished sowng Skagit Magic TPS (the name makes me smile). Will some some more in a fortnight, then again in March. Sown more chillies - Rocoto, Jamaican Red Hot, Lemon Drop and a few more I can't remember.

[hawthorns]

made another edged raised bed then the sodding rain ended my fun

[Feral007]

Quiet day here. Chook duty, visited a friend to catch up, did my duty taking money at the Rodeo gate (and asking the youngsters if they had full eskies - well we get to confiscate alcohol at the gate ) then had dinner and came home and watered a sad tomato plant and spent some quality kelpie time on the verandah, till the spiders chased me away.
Tomorrow, the plants, monday the world.

[alex-adam]

Putting a coat of wood preservative on my home-made Grow-bag containers - now in their fifth year and still going strong !

Second job - making some potting trays out of scrap wood for use in the polytunnel at our community growing project.

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[Florence Fennel]

Finally made myself go out and survey the damage done by the snow and wind over the last week. Not as bad as I thought, although the stayput is a major repair project. Got the weeds out of the strawberry patch and dug up some carrots and leeks. I am now desperate for compost so I can sow some seeds. The compost I have left is cold and wet.

[Likac66]

Started the morning happy as one tiny seedling had appeared in my windowsill unheated propagator - a cherry tomato seedling. By this evening I have about 6 or 7 seedlings up. I planted these a week ago.

Meanwhile, in the unheated greenhouse, I have a heated propagator that is covered in bubble wrap and placed inside a plastic blowaway greenhouse. I planted tomato and chilli seeds in there 4 weeks ago and nothing has appeared. Checked again late this afternoon and I have finally got one seedling appearing. So the 4 week headstart has made no difference at all!

I also bought a 3 way compost bag holder thingy for just £6.99 at Home Bargains. Seemed a great deal and I have been struggling to fit all my compost at home in just one bin.

[kathycam]

This week, had a bad cough and have been power sneezing, so got less done than hoped. Cleared a lot more couch grass, bought 4 fuit trees from Aldis and a half price cranberry from B and Q and some mashua tubers off ebay. (my purse hurts)

Today I dug a trench to help drainage and also to try and stop the couch grass a bit. Might plant up with chamomille seeds. Cleared lots of dead plants and had a bonfire. I made friends with some plot neighbours kids and got a tour of their shed. Which had gas, water and electric as well as a log stove which they made me a coffee on!

Still need to put up polytunnel, lay paving slabs, plants the trees, clear more. Dig the pond and prepare the ground and clear loads of grass. Oh and apparently the existing fruit trees need pruning in the next month.

[Bigmallly]

Got an early start down at lottie today. Transplanted strawbs into their permanent bed. Weeded & fertilised the potato bed. After raking it level, I covered it in newspaper & gave it a good 2-3" of chippings on top............need my bed now, I'm wrecked.