What I did today 2012-2014

[cardiffsteve]

Well I've now started.

Beetroot, Bright Lights chard, 2 different dwarf beans, radishes, coriander, chervil, mizuna, Patty Pan Squash, Spaghetti squash and curled parsley all sowed and in nice warm blow away.

Potted on some mini plum tomato.

[hawthorns]

planted out bellana, pink fir, mayan gold and charlotte potatoes. 100 sturon onion sets. planted out beetroot, salad onion, dazzle, red cos and great lakes lettuce. potted on dill and parsley. had a visit from a song thrush

[Snadger]

Lovely sunny day today...............for a change!

Dug over a bed of PFA potatoes and gathered about 3 stone of good useable spuds.
Borrowed a wheelbarrow from someones plot who hadn't been seen for ages. Guess what, he turns up after 6 months of inactivity and I'm standing there with his wheelbarow full of manure!
Added the manure (home made compost)to the bed I'd just dug over and took his barrow back. Borrow it whenever you need it sez he.........phew sez I!
Anyway, tickled the compost into the surface and planted four long rows of onion sets into bed.
Potted my blueberry bush into ericaceous compost in a large pot and sited it within greenhouse.Took the bubblewrap off my peach tree and pollinated the pink flowers with a feather.
Planted out about a dozen overwintered broad bean plants into a pocket that originally had cabbage in it.........chooks got a welcome feed from the few that were left.
Smashed up a load of timber with an axe that I had been going to burn, but the last burning date for bonfires was the 1st April so will need to burn it in my woodburning stove.
Pruned the majority of my gooseberry bushes to a single stem half standard which makes the fruit easier to pick!
Collected three plotholders rents as our treasurer has a broken foot, then delivered the money to the treasures house in case I spent it by mistake!
Just sitting tucking into boiled PFA tatties with salt,butter and mint sauce on. No difference to Jersey Royals.............and FOC!
I've grown Jerusalem artichokes for a number of years now but never actually eaten any. There's some in the pan now, so that will be a culinary first for me also!

[Aberdeenplotter]

Took KCN out shopping...

To a garden centre around 45 miles away!

which one? Glad you didn't succumb to the wiles of a mere woman and had the courage to buy your onion sets.. i no longer use sets for red onions. Last time all bar 4 bolted . Hope you have mor success than me.

[Snadger]

planted out bellana, pink fir, mayan gold and charlotte potatoes. 100 sturon onion sets. planted out beetroot, salad onion, dazzle, red cos and great lakes lettuce. potted on dill and parsley. had a visit from a song thrush

Funny that, you're just planting them and I'm just digging mine up!

[Noosner]

And chooks excited by dried apricots and bread soaked in milk.

That would excite me too

[out in the cold]

which one? Glad you didn't succumb to the wiles of a mere woman and had the courage to buy your onion sets.. i no longer use sets for red onions. Last time all bar 4 bolted . Hope you have mor success than me.

The power of radio advertising saw us venture up to Mintlaw to the Happy Plant GC.

Had some nice stuff on offer and bought a few bits and bobs AP, but was not really that impressed. I actually think Raemoir at Banchory has a better offering.

[out in the cold]

Seeds apart, they had not a single herb...

SWMBC is looking for a small Bay. Where is good locally AP?

[Aberdeenplotter]

Locally to me there is Parkhill Garden Centre at Dyce and also Swailend Nursery at Newmachar. Give them a phone before travelling though to confirm they have what you are looking for as it's a fair way to travel without knowing they have what you are looking for. Parkhill sponsors our local branch of the NVS annual show so I have no shame in giving them a plug. Nice folks and they like to give a bit back to the folks who shop with them.

[eirish]

Put together a shelving unit and bought some watering trays with capillary matting, so I can organise my indoor seedlings and hopefully not underwater them as usual. Now I need to sow some more seeds - my few teeny chillies look lonely.

[Peppermint]

Split some rhubarb off the old plant in the corner of the garden (old Orkney variety) and replanted it into my new rhubarb triangle with the Champagne and Victoria.

Planted some box hedging.

Dug over two 30'x4' beds. Last year I was actually creating them, it was good to be able to just turn them over this year. Two more to do tomorrow, if the weather holds.

It was a beautiful day, sunshine most of the day except for the 10 minutes it decided to snow on me I wasn't giving up, I was half way down the second bed.

I might even plant something tomorrow

[out in the cold]

Bloody hell...

It is snowing again!

[Aberdeenplotter]

here as well but very wet stuff

[Wendie]

Enjoyed the first of many days in the sun.

Planted out the chitted Charlotte and Pentland Javelin potatoes in tubs, next to the house, hopefully there wont be frost there!

Potted on Cayenne, Habanero and Cheyenne chillies.

Sowed beetroot, coriander and rocket in greenhouse.

Look forward to many more days in the sun!!

[Piggle]

Started work on the other plot - my husband decided to tell me how to make compost........ The cheek!