What I did today 2012-2014

[Guykp57]

My little piece of heaven

Enjoying my little piece of heaven in my garden, as you can see all off the floor or in pots because I can't grow a thing in my soil

[PyreneesPlot]

Sowed peas, parsnips, radishes and planted potatoes and Chinese artichokes. Slowly catching up

[horticultural_hobbit]

Jiggled around the 4TB to transfer things to the Wendy house.

Sown sunfloo'ers, runner and climbing beans.


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[AllInContainers]

Took receipt of and am currently potting up my "Happy Returns" Daylillies.
That's another three pots taken care of (I do hate looking at empty pots)

[MrsCordial]

What I did today - apart from squashing the tip of my left index finger in a window lock?

Dug the ground ready for parsnips (not a big digger but this had got dandeliony), put in a few seedlings that I had in my newbie ignorance started in a cell tray and felt it was better to plant than chuck and put a cloche over the bed to warm the ground for a couple of weeks before I do my planting proper.

Planted out some dwarf beans seedlings (Speedy and Safari) that DS (5) sowed quite recently in cell trays. This meant clearing a load of nettles and sticky weed first.

Planted out some nasturtium seedlings.

Inspected my onions and garlic sowed from sets, which on the whole are coming on quite well.

Made a list of what to plant over the next few weeks.

[MrsCordial]

Oh AllInContainers you'd have the twitches at my house just now - yesterday I collected over 100 pots from a freecycler! I'm in pot heaven (that sounds all wrong!).

[AllInContainers]

Fill 'em ..... quick!!! Good score though Mrs C. I've had to trade valuable beer vouchers for the vast majority of mine, and seem to be moving more and more towards the larger pots too ...

[Snadger]

Planted out 40 swede plants I had grown in modules in the greenhouse.The bed was already prepared but I added a bit of magnesium limestone and some high potassium fertiliser. The bed is surrounded with pantiles so stretched some mesh over them and pegged it down.
Gave the whole lot a good watering to consolidate the roots. The other half of the bed I will probably direct sow with swedes.

[Penellype]

Spend a good deal of yesterday in my friend's garden. The bottom end of the veg patch is completely saturated and impossible to dig, so I had to abandon my plan of finishing off putting in retaining boards for now. I'm waiting for most of the rest of it to start showing me where I have missed bits of perennial weed root, so there is not a great deal I can do there. However, there is another patch of rough ground which she said I could use, so having contemplated it for a while I went and bought some wood and constructed a 2ft by 4ft hotbed frame along the lines of this video NO-DIG HOTBED --HOW TO MAKE AND PLANT A HOTBED - YouTube, using some wooden gravel boards which were going cheap from B&Q. Today's job will be to fill the bed - there is a good supply of horse muck from the stables on site

I might also make a potato bed next to the hotbed, but I only thought of that last night so I need to check there is room before I get too carried away. Really enjoying this - I simply don't have the space to experiment with this sort of thing at home.

Oh, and my friend said she had ordered a 3x4m polytunnel yesterday

[Noosner]

Planted out 40 swede plants I had grown in modules in the greenhouse.The bed was already prepared but I added a bit of magnesium limestone and some high potassium fertiliser. The bed is surrounded with pantiles so stretched some mesh over them and pegged it down.
Gave the whole lot a good watering to consolidate the roots. The other half of the bed I will probably direct sow with swedes.

Do I get the impression you like swedes, Snadger?

[Jakejakeyjakejake]

Made a Winecap mushroom bed out of cardboard and wood chip, contained by logs, in the shade of an old apple tree.
Wish I'd taken a photo as I know you're all curious

Yes planing on mushrooming this yr


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[catgirl]

Despaired over my fungus gnat infestation. It wasn't too bad when they were just flying around and getting caught on the sticky traps, but now their babies are killing some of my young plants. One of the cucumbers has gone down and the sweet peppers aren't looking happy either. It's not even like the top inch of soil in the pots is moist so I have no idea how they're still breeding!

Anyway, I ordered some Gnat Off today so hopefully that'll get rid of the root-eating you know whats...

[RaptorUK]

Did some more weeding today, finished off the Broad Beans and the bed they are in, there was some Horsetail but not too much. Sowed a few pre-chitted Parsnip seeds to fill the gaps in my row, I've never grown parsnips before so this is another first for me

Sowed a few more feet of Spring onions, one more sowing and the two rows (Lisbon and Purple Lillia) will be complete.

[Noosner]

What a wonderful day! For the first time in ages, my allotted lottie day was sunny. Spent several happy hours sowing sunflowers in my Jerusalem artichoke patch (I think they will get on, being similar chaps) parsnips (not tried these before), adding netting to a wigwam and planting out my sweet peas (hope it's not too early but they have been hardening off for ages now), weeding and sorting out a gadzillion canes from under the shed. Mr Noosner even came down to cut the grass, bringing a flask of coffee and some cheese with him. My cup runneth over.

[Jakejakeyjakejake]

Went in the greenhouse and everything is dead … it was all fine last night guess the sun was that hot today it wiped everything out !!?


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