What I did today 2012-2014

[Snadger]

Managed to barrow three heaped barrowloads of very strawy poo from when my neighbour cleans his chooks out.
I honestly don't know why he doesn't use it on the plot, preferring to expose his dead clay soil to the elements without any organic matter in it.

His loss is my gaina as after taking out any perennial weeds i just cover the bed with this straw and plant whatever I like through it. Eventually the worms take it down and it makes lovely humus.

Moved the wooden fence back about five foot on the end of one of my plots. Hammered a couple of stakes in to keep it up. Now when the local gypsy comes with his car and a load of hoss muck he has somewhere else to dump it, thereby doing him good in getting rid and me good in getting free manure.
When I come to use it it just means wheelbarrowing it back in and through the gate I have to my plots.

Put some rocksalt on some troubling nettles and docks which are on my paths. They had started to curl up there leaves even before I left the plot.

[daviddevantnhisspiritwife]

As it has been alternating between incessant drizzle and pouring rain I did not get anything that I really wanted to do done today. I did manage to split some cells of Spinach and plant into a few big pots and a window tray. These will be my back up as then slugs are already making inroads into the ones in the ground.

I did happen upon an exciting discovery: The brassicas that I had planted last year hoping for sprouts at Christmas - that did not yeild any sprouts, well, I've just been harvesting the odd few leaves for greens every now and then. Turns out they are Purple Sprouting and they're looking great. Tomorrow's dinner will be a treat!

I retired indoors and have been potting things on (peppers/toms/chillis/tomatillos). Also sown a few Sunflowers, though can't find the Mongolian Giants for the lil' un.

[shellyanne1987]

Between today and yesterday, did my first seed swap met a lovely fellow Gardner who has a beautiful allotment I was in absolute awe of it! He not only gave us some nigella and poppy seeds but a mustard plant, rocket plant and kale and larkspur which I've been sorting out today


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[horticultural_hobbit]

Collected more Shakespeare today


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[Ninetrees]

Dug another 12 square metres of top and subsoil out for the patio. The earth mound at the back of the garden is now 15 metres long and a metre high in places! Bought bamboo canes and fan trained my Peregrine peach. Planted out a pinkberry bush and a Versailles whitecurrant, which completes the fruit plot (for the time being )

[Martin H]

With rain forecast for later I got down the allotment early and put in a full morning clearing last year's brassica beds. The promised rain never arrived so I spent the afternoon in the garden, weeding and tidying. Pizza and beer for tea, so a good day all round!

[Plot28 A&B]

Went to the lotty around lunchtime, spent 3 hours messing around. Planted my first earlys and cleaned out the pond. My wife moved a load of garlic that had come up from last year, washed all the pots ready for the potting on marathon that will need to take place based on the trays of seeds we have in the g house. Mowed the grass on our two plots and next doors.

I was glad to see the grass seed I sowed about two weeks ago has started to sprout.

[shellyanne1987]

Taking cuttings from a few different plants to propagate, will be re potting my aloe this afternoon it seems to have got massive over the last few weeks


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[AllInContainers]

Abandoned plans of doing anything outdoors today. The rain is coming, so the strawbs can wait till another day

[Maddiesaur]

Repotted my Yucca plants, they have had a sudden growth spurt. Checked on the seeds, lot's rearing their heads now. Sowed some more seeds this morning, flowers, for a bit of pretty

[bretty666]

Fully planted out the rest of my herb bed, and i have sown my 3rd set of radish...its looking great.oh.i started prepping my pumpkin patch again..to hard, the neighbours gonna do it with his tractor and cover in horse poo and mushroom compost?

[Snadger]

Dug over and sowed a couple of long rows of parsnips.Planted my pot reared broad beans. Put rock salt on weeds on paths.Took some cucumbers,pumpkin and tomatoes to allotment greenhouse. Piled up couch grass roots and marestail ready for when we get a skip.Soewd some Cayenne peppers from fresh seed stripped from last years pods. Used a red pepper stuck into the compost as a label.

[vegboi]

I went down the plot today and someone had left an old fence so I carried them on to my plot as the wooden pallets are falling dine and plus it will give me more privacy. I planted my early and main crop seed potatoes and my broad beans and dwarf peas in a pot. Weather arwful here in Wirral rain rain rain .


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[Dorothy rouse]

Just back from plot, first Earlies coming up well,also some spares I threw in a bag are also coming through.

Removed black fabric,and dug bed ready for runner beans, chopped down some nettles and added to top, is very sticky, needs more compost/ manure adding,have a few weeks yet, so hoping there will be some homemade compost.

Potted some cosmos seedlings into larger pots.

Gave my blackcurrant and redcurrant some food.

[rustylady]

Managed a couple of hours at the allotment this afternoon with 2 little helpers.

Dug up most of the carrots, biggest little helper is now scrubbing them

Planted a few chitted broad beans, weeded out the strawberry patch and brought a few plants home to make youngest grandson his own strawberry pot at home.

Took out most of the Cavolo Nero which is now flowering, chopped and added to the new compost Dalek together with a couple of the flowering curly kale plants.