What I did today 2012-2014

[Marcher]

Bought some propagators from Aldi (£4 for 3 - they're quite decent too) and sowed the runner beans, sunflowers, nasturtiums and two types of melons in them.

[PyreneesPlot]

Weeded a couple of flower borders - tulip flowers are starting to show - and dug out the mole runs.
Weeded the fruit cage. After three years the raspberry trench is looking really good and have fruited well. Unlike the strawberries; average amount of fruit, average flavour but no runners. Stick to rampant alpines.

[Nicos]

Cut our front lawns. First cut of the year. It was finally dry enough to do!

The back lawns are up to 9" high- at this rate I'll need to strim them first

[hawthorns]

sown jermor shallots, sutton broad beans and a 2 rows of radishes (cloched).

into the cold frame
hispi cabbage
marathon calabrese
parsley
dill
spring onions
maravilla lettuce
medina spinach
marshall lettuce

[sammy_roser]

Sowed Courgette All Green Bush and Soleil, Radish Rats Tails, De Carentan 2 Leeks and Sunburst Summer Squash. Oh and some sweet peas from seeds I saved last year

[Likac66]

Went to the allotment to chip the apple tree branches we cut last week, but we managed to break the chipper. Oops. So we at least cleared the branches to the back of the allotment by the fence. Phoned the allotment secretary and confessed to breaking the chipper.

Came home and planted the following in the greenhouse:
mixed salad leaves
French lavender
Sweet Peas (Cupani, Sweet Heart and Royal mixed)
Duncan Cabbage
Brussels Sprouts (Purple flower variety)
Parsley
Coriander
Basil

[Verinda]

Today the plan was to fill my new raised boarder. But instead I dug out yet more rushes. Its the best time to dig out rushes when the soil is soggy. A nightmare when it's hard and dry!

[Aberdeenplotter]

. Phoned the allotment secretary and confessed to breaking the chipper.

Sounds as if you didn't break anything. The recoil start cord, which sounds as though it was in very poor condition, snapped. It wasn't something you did.

[VirginVegGrower]

Mr VVG built his deck and half assembled a summer house. I was undercover...

[Peppermint]

OH busy putting roof joists up on new shed.

I sowed some more leeks and bunching onions in pots. Put some shallots and onion sets into modules.

Moved one set of strawberries into the new bed I dug last weekend.

Dug over another bed, added chicken manure. Hopefully I'll be able to move over another bed of strawberries tomorrow.

Ended up working until it was dark. We are really looking forward to the light evenings

[VirginVegGrower]

Weeded a couple of flower borders - tulip flowers are starting to show - and dug out the mole runs.
Weeded the fruit cage. After three years the raspberry trench is looking really good and have fruited well. Unlike the strawberries; average amount of fruit, average flavour but no runners. Stick to rampant alpines.

Want some? Please come and dig mine out - still at it!

[rabbit]

My dad came over and manically weeded, turned over and mulched totally of his own volition! What a trooper.
Fed him well as he worked very hard ! Also gave him a couple strawbs in pots for his trouble!
I took care of some grass that's trying to take over the rhubarb patch, I hope it's not the dreaded couch grass! Sprinkled on some blood, fish and bone. Mulched the raspberry canes.
I potted some chitted peas.

[Aberdeenplotter]

whatever you do, do not spray the grass with a glyphosate based weedkiller. Rhubarb seems to absorb it by the root and it will die even if there is no leaf contact/absorbtion

[scorpius]

Went to a sale today, OH was supposed to fill up pots etc with soil/compost ready for me to put where want them ie out of naughty chickens reach did he heck

[Acanthus]

Tidied the greenhouses up and found lettuce,cabbage,Psb and kale were sprouting from the stubs left by whatever had nipped them off at soil level last autumn. Don't suppose they'll come to much, but gave them a good watering. Also furtled around in the pots of dead-looking cuttings of fushia,penstemon, antirrhinum, and found white shoots! Isn't nature wonderful?