What I did today 2012-2014

[Bren In Pots]

Potted on my toms and put them back on the window sill.

[Yorkshire.Dave]

Sowed some iceberg lettuce in a square plastic tup and stuck it on the kitchen windowsill..
Also took the plastic bag off the ghost chillies as the leaves are now showing.

Planted a few sunflower seeds in a pot inside to start them off because my wife wanted a few outside for the birds.

[Bren In Pots]

The sun came out so I went back in the nice warm Gh and potted on some mixed lettuce, marigolds, sunflowers and wild flowers.

[Florence Fennel]

Sowed kale, leeks, cabbage, cauli, chillies, tomatoes (FloI'mNotGrowingAsManyTomsThisYear), beetroot and lettuce. Sowed a pea bed outside and filled it with loads of twiggy sticks from the tree that my son "trimmed" last Autumn.

[rustylady]

Tidied part of the back border - cut back the jasmine that was trying to take over the world, cut out old raspberry canes, and cut the red dogwood back really hard.

Attacked the greenhouse, looking a lot more presentable now.

[eirish]

Finished the cold frame!!! (pics here)

And started filling it up: sowed three kinds of peas, lettuce, rocket, spinach, and sweet peas. Would have done more but am being attacked by a cold.

Also admired the chilli sprouts coming through and ordered some more seeds.

(smiley abuse, anyone?!)

[adamjohn]

Planted the first potatoes on the year; 'Home Guard'. Now I need to get on with making a list of seed to order (I should have done this already).

[Linzy]

ok so on saturday me, the other half and a friend put scaffold boards around the beds in front garden, covered in mushroom compost, planted a rose. Yesterday i mushroom composted the allotment and weeded the onions, and today i planted some geraniums, day lilies and Black sambucus. And planted lots of seeds, calendula, french marigolds, night-stocks, hollyhocks, and lots of other goodies.

[Martin H]

Finished creating a second bed on the allotment, see pic. The soil was much better in places, the twitch roots gave way to bindweed roots.



Helped Mrs H load the car for four trips to the municipal recycling place to get rid of rotten wood, broken tools, superfluous plastic drink bottles, broken glass and who knows what else.

It was really cold down there today - the wind turning more northerly sweeps down the Ravensbourne valley straight over my plot. So I decided against planting anything today.

Won't get down there now for two weeks - work days are long and I'm away next weekend - but will be getting some potatoes and onions in at that point. In the meantime I feel that we have at least made a start!

[Likac66]

Moved stuff around in the greenhouse. Moved the peas and broad beans to the coolest part in the hopes of beginning to harden them off soon. Moved the tomatoes and peppers into an area that gets the most light.

Made a decision about potatoes: tomorrow I'm going to lay fleece down on the tattie bed to warm it slightly and the potatoes are going in at the weekend. No more waiting, they're going in! I'll fleece it back over.

[Jelliebabe]

Finally Got to the Lottie!!! I have strimmed, dug, weeded and pruned the gooseberries. Gooseberries area evil creatures, I look like I've been mauled by tigers!

[Tripmeup]

Not much today... But did pot on some chillies and toms..

[GrimChili]

Loads of patio laying (somewhere to put all my containers), lots of earth moving and sieving too.
Things are finally coming together on the garden. Really need to get planting though!!
I will have a 3 and a half wide bed running almost the length of the left side of my garden!
Also culled one Jalapeno that just wasn't even trying.

[NZ Sandi]

last couple of days (in NZ) pulled out finished pumpkin plants, weeded beans, zucchini, pulled last of carrots, cooked last peaches, burnt first batch of fig jam (helping hubby with his construction assignment...) got son to mow over the big pile of weeds to make mulch, decided to leave last of tomatoes for another few days, thought about weeding finished lettuce patch, decided much more poo and compost needed for next summer. I need to read the posts written 6 months earlier so I can follow what to do next!

[Loudbarker1]

Didn't dare do anything rweally over easter: cold, cold and far too cold.

But I did dig last few parsnips for easter Sunday lunch with roast beef, a little weeding of the few hardy seeds that have come up and make a small start in dismanteling the second hand greenhouse. It is covered with ingrowing ivy and I don't know whether it will be possible to bring it back into use, but master loudbarker and I will give it a go!

LB