What I did today 2012-2014

[bramble]

Took all my tomatoes and chillis from the bedroom windowsill today as well.
Put them in the cold conservatory tonight with a makeshift polytunnel around them made up of fleece and bubble wrap.

[Likac66]

Looking in the greenhouse I have decided to cull some tomato plants that are just not thriving at all. I might re-sow some of the varieties. On the plus side, the black cherry, san Marzano and Marmande are all doing well.

I noticed I have 3 courgette seeds coming up already and there are definite signs of germination from the melons as well. calabrese seeds are just coming up in the cold frame.

Took a quick trip to the lottie just to take a look. The peas I planted at the beginning of the week all look healthy. However, I think the mice are having a field day with the new seeds I planted. Keep finding them on the path!

[binley100]

Heeled in my quince and crab apple hedging.......
Met with another plotholder and guy from Warwickshire Wildlife trust to reconnoitre the pond .......
Took delivery of frog spawn for my lottie pond , still have some tadpoles from last year swimming about....
Helped clear out the shed on the community garden ready for its makeover......
At home......
potted up some peppers and courgettes.....

[out in the cold]

Went to Hom*b*se and bought sand and gravel to help improve drainage on our lawn.

Came home and cut the lawn into 2ft strips with the spade and started lifting turfs off it and stacking these behind the shed.

Hopefully will finish off tomorrow and can lay the sand, gravel and some topsoil back on, prior to buying turf at the GC on Sunday

[vikkib]

Yesterday I sowed some Rudbeckia seeds (Cherry Brandy) and have popped them in a heated prop - never grown these before and very excited as they look gorgeous!

Also stuck some more parsnip seeds on damp kitchen roll, in a plastic tray, in a plastic bag on the windowsill. This is my third attempt - first lot dried out completely as I didn't have a tight fitting lid for the tub and hadn't put them in a plastic bag, second lot I managed to knock off the windowsill and distribute all over the floor! Hopefully third times a charm!

Potted on chillis, peppers and aubergines into 4 1/2" - 5" pots and put them back under the lights.



Sowed some carrot seeds in flower buckets in the GH.

Sowed a few mini pop sweetcorn seeds in loo rolls and stuck them in a heated prop on the window sill - determined to actually sow these in succession this year so I get to enjoy them for longer!

Popped the toms outside, in a cold frame, during the day for the first time this year (now thinking I should have done that a week ago!)

Evicted some spring onions and little gems that I finally managed to get to germinate into a sheltered part of the garden.

[vikkib]

I also faced facts and realised that our front bedroom which I had previously thought of as my office/study is now actually my 'grow room' and re-arranged it to reflect this!

Have finally moved the hi-fi so there is much less danger of getting water/mud all over the speakers and amp!

[Feral007]

Watered the seedlings which have all almost come up. Really pleased with that, and also that they didn't get too dry and die while I was away.

Checked out the snowpeas which are coming up all over the place. Raspberries and strawberries looking sad, no rain

But mostly it's all looking good.

[hawthorns]

been to the plot but not for long cold and breezy with no sign of the sun. sown a few more hispi and leeks

[marcofez]

Sowed 2 types of cabbages, "piccolino" cucumber, spring onions, marigolds, poached egg flowers, potted on some more tomatoes and peppers. All done yesterday (Friday) as at work today
What a difference a day makes, as the song goes! Chucking it down yesterday with hailstones and rain. Today I'm stuck at work, jealous of you lucky lot enjoying the sun and getting on your plots!

[horticultural_hobbit]

Found dead broadies-the ones transplanted last week.

Planted the last of the onions.

Sank loads of bamboo canes so that netting can be strung between them.

Stomped around a bit in my wellingtons.

Blogged about it

[Darwin.]

I moved two trees in the garden, it took about 3 hours and resulted in one very sore wrist for my helper.

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ing_71172.html

[VirginVegGrower]

Sowed tomatoes, cukes and more broad beans. Pricked out salvia seedlings. Went to Lotty and planted tree onions. Weeded brassica bed and allium bed - only odd bits to do. Transplanted my peas in gutters. Sowed some direct. Planted my tree onions and two echinacea plants. Trimmed all the grass edges whilst Mr VVG mainly gossiped. One day he will stop treating it as a holiday venue, I hope.

[Martin H]

Down the allotment in the morning sunshine, planted onion sets in bed 1 and wilja second earlies in bed 2. Started getting couch and bindweed out of Bed 3, but it was heavy going, like trying to dig straw out of Sainsbury's luxury Christmas pudding.

It rained this afternoon, so I stayed home and...
pricked out 2 trays of gazanias (saved seed, yay!), a tray of Virginia Gold tobacco and some brussels sprouts;
sowed some ornamental nicotiania from saved seed;
sowed some lettuce (salad bowl and lollo rossa);
sowed some kohl rabi (green ones and purple ones);
sowed my free tomato seed
carefully divided two dahlia tubers that I'd started off last month, got 10 plants out of one but only 3 out of the other;
potted up some herbaceous perennial seedlings that have been overwintering in the cold frame.

Looking forward to a sunny day down the allotment with Mrs H tomorrow!

[Snadger]

Went to a 'Fur and Feather' auction at Hexham and brought back seven bantams!

On my return to the allotment and while the chooks were settling in I dug over a few pockets and planted some overwintering japanese onion plants that hadn't got planted out, whilst filling the pocket with Centureon onion sets. It will make an interesting experiment to see how much time difference there is in maturing?
Planted up a few more sick looking polyanthus that I had scrounged.

Took the bubblewrap off the top and inner sides of my peach tree in the greenhouse as there is no frost forcast for the next couple of days. It is full of pink bloom whick I duly pollinated with a feather. I've left the bubblewrap on the glass side as a bit of added protection.

[eirish]

Shopping mostly, pottering around garden centres in the lovely weather - first spring-like day we've had and I did.not feel like working! Came home with five (!) houseplants, three packs of violas (half price at Homebase this weekend), and a wooden wine box for pea shoots that the local wine shop let me have for free along with the bottle I bought.

I actually propped the cold frame open this afternoon - 'twas practically tropical!