What I did today 2012-2014

[Snadger]

Potted up some tomatoes.
Built a raided bed and cleared half a hundredweight of broken bricks and debri from within.
Weeded and turned over my carrot bed to be.
Weeded and edged my circular herb bed (well, half of it)

[horticultural_hobbit]

Filled the waterbutt, again. Watered the onions on ma's say so. Stirred compost in Dalek with activator. Said hello to wiggly woo's in the wormery. They were very wiggly, I've never seen them
So alive. Noticed more velveteen leaves poking through beds. Attacked them with a fork, thinking it a pernicious weed. Reliabily informed by lotment neighbours that it was comfrey. Handed dug up root with fuzzy leaf to one of neighbours who wants some. Given with pleasure. Gave Aunty indra some lettuce, and also to the lotment neighbours to get rid of it and make room for runners and things. Checked on moody aubergines. Think one is still pouting for England.

[Florence Fennel]

Potted on tomatoes and chillies. Sowed some nasturtium seed, Peach Melba and some turnip. Doesn't sound much, but I was at it for hours.

[Loudbarker1]

Lots of sowing today, but meant to do so much more.

With the help of Master and Miss Loudbarker:
Picked perpetual spinage (had for tea in pesto with roast chicken, pasta and (home grown) lettuce.)

Planted lettuce - little gem, catalogna cerbuiatta (oakleaf from DT Brown) yugoslavian red (beautiful green/pink leafed butterhead from T&M) grandpa admire's butterhead (Real Seed Catalogue and new to me) and australian looseleaf (also Real Seed Catalogue and also new to me).

Also spinach (tucan F1 from DT Brown - never really succeeded with true spinach yet)

Also lots of Spring onion (white lisbon)

All planted in seed compost in cells under a thin layer of vermicite in hothouse.

Bit of weeding outside, but not as much as I should have done.

Outside, under fleece, I planted:

Parsnip tender and true. 3 rows. In each row I also sowed radishes, (french breakfast, cherry belle and candela di fuoco, and italian hierloom variety said (by DT Brown) to be mild)

Also carrots (elary nantes 5)

and beetroot, bolthardy.

For all these the soil was watered first, then drills drawn out and watered again and then seed sown, earth drawn over and firmed down. A few slug pellets scattered. Nemaslug ordered.

Transplanted 10 lettuce little gem donated from mother's cold house: under cloches and watered in. They are quite mature, so I expect a few losses. A few slug pellets scattered.

Watered soft fruit with rain water for blueberries and from tap (via watering can) for the rest.

Most of the brassicas planted last week have germinated well - the savoys are a bit slower, and the red drumhead are not up yet at all.

Broad beans witkien manita in loo rolls will be planted out next week. Tall peas (aos planted in loo rolls) look to be forming roots nicely, but no show of leaf yet. Watered both and threw out a slug.

[SarrissUK]

It's my daughter's birthday so we spent the morning at Cleethorpes sea front and it was bloody cold and foggy!
Came home and it was warm and lovely, but I didn't feel so well, so spent an hour or so sowing papalo and quillquina, tomato and some aubergine. Felt good too cause I recycled some empty plastic milk bottles to sow into, as I'm forever running out of boxes to put my seed trays in!

[taff]

did too muich again but managed to sow tomatoes [ except for the principe borghese, I'll do them on Wednesday]. Sowed some onions, some sweet peas. Planted some comfrey root to the back of one of the beds for extra mulching in place - I'm hoping the comfrey will suppress any other weeds.
Tidied up the garden, filled a black bag with rubbish - bits of plastic, broken trays - recoiled the recalcitrant hosepipe, watered the top of one of the hugelkulturs, finally found a permanent home for two pots of little stones I dug out of the ground a couple of years ago. Haphazardly scattered some sunflower seeds, transplanted some poached egg plants from the beds to the edges of the garden. Put all the weeds that were in two compost sacks into the tumbler [going to give that a go], dug up some dandelions from the paved area to the side of the house.
Turned over two half barrels of weeds so the rotted stuff was on top, I'll experiment with lettuce in them.

[Tripmeup]

More potatoes planted...
More strawberries...
Rotavated an area for my soon to arrive onion sets...some stone picking still to be done on it tho...
More progress with assembling my Norfolk lean to - will get there eventually

[Paulieb]

Back at work today, but this weekend was great gardening weather so I;

Sowed carrots, parsnips and then transplanted a row of May Queen lettuces in between.

Mowed the grass for the first time this year, and mulched my overwintered onions and garlic with the grass.

Carried on building my greenhouse foundation which is blinkin' hard work. Three layers of concrete blocks in a 14*8 rectangle!

Dug up the last of the leeks and some PSB to have with chorizo and pasta for tea. Yum!

And most importantly of all spent Saturday afternoon in a beer garden!!

[jdlondon]

Ordered compost and bark mulch for home delivery, since I've realised my slow and steady hauling of a small bag a time is going to take forever and my plants want a home sooner rather than later. Fingers crossed they bring it up to my flat.

Planted up my borage and good thing too, since I found the drainage hadn't worked and they were practically in a pool.

Spending the rest of the day contemplating vermiculite, perlite and water gel crystals.

[rustylady]

Wasted all day waiting for an Ebay buyer to collect her purchase. She now reckons she'll come tomorrow evening

[Pa Snips]

Wasted all day waiting for an Ebay buyer to collect her purchase. She now reckons she'll come tomorrow evening

You have my sympathies, inconsiderate people are so frustrating.

Today, I had a chat with one of our customers about my veg growing venture and told him that if everything goes well enough this year I'd like to get an allotment. He then told me that his son is an allotment manager and that he would have a word with him for me. It's possible that nothing will come of it, and there are obviously waiting lists to consider, but you know what they say...."It's not what you know but who you know that matters".

I also contacted a Freecycler about a compost bin, now have to wait to see if I get it or not.

[Snadger]

Had a small bonfire in a metal dalek.

Sowed some broad beans direct.

Planted out some Setton onion sets that had 9" of foliage.

Added another 7 bags of woodchippings to my paths.

[Florence Fennel]

Pricked out and potted on Cauli, Calabrese and Sprouts. They are only tiddlers, but I'm hoping for success from seed this year. I shall be so disappointed if I have to order brassica plants yet again. Weeded, fed and covered an area of ground with weed suppressor for sowing peas and covered an area for my bean wigwam. Wish I was off work again tomorrow, weather has been fantastic.

[Sanjo]

I too planted out my Settons. Some felt a bit "squidgy" but the foliage was lush so I am assuming they will be fine. Also planted out 3 kinds of lettuce seedlings, yoghurt pots of Lisbon spring onion an inch or so tall, mini pots of beetroots about the same height and sowed radishes, and more spring onions. All now in the fleeced salad bed in front of the greenhouse. Transferred some trays of plants to the small blowaway to make room in the greenhouse.
With my husband's help managed to remove the Dalek from the compost, re-sited the bin and replaced the unrotted stuff and added the lovely friable compost to the tomato bed that I had just dug over. Unfortunately, dimbo here didn't check the positioning of the Dalek BEFORE she added the unrotted compost and then found that it was too close to the lower branch of the apple tree and I couldn't get the lid on. Doh!! Had to empty it out again and move it.
Now shattered and my back and wrist hurts. Never mind, I have physio tomorrow. !!!!

[VirginVegGrower]

Got sunburnt arms and chest today after spending all afternoon at the table, where I potted on seventy tomato plants. Spent all morning in the garden planting hellebores, muscari, honeysuckles, then all afternoon spent in and out of the greenhouse, potting on seventy tomato seedlings. Leeks are dubbed in little clumps up on the allotment courtesy of Mr VVG and lil Miss VVG. Beetroot too. Guess that's my vitamin D for the day