What I did today 2012-2014

[Deano's "Diggin It"]

Guy! A "Little Tip"..............

Place a layer of well rotted manure about 6" underground, cover with a layer of compost "Home made is best" but run of the mill if not! 3" to 4" over that!
Set ya sets!

Sorted!

A tip someone gave me last year! Worked a treat!

[veggiechicken]

Still love it though never no what tomorrow will bring,
P.s Cabbages doing great though leaves like elephant ears, does anybody cut the leaves and eat before the hearts are dug up and eaten?

I treat them like cut and come again cabbages - take a leaf or 2 from the bottom of each plant and let the centre heart up. Extends the picking season

[Feral007]

Worked for the first 8 hours (they got a bonus 30 mins from me today) 2 hours driving with maniacs. And presently watching the very cold, very slanty rain. Bed will be next on the agenda.
Garden won't feature until tomorrow

[cariann88]

I know this is a bit early for me to post but my today is still yesterday. I work nights.

Apart from trying to sleep most of the day, I just sat in the garden and watered my veg! Not much exciting my life lol.


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[DWSmith]

Even though I'm new here I hope it's okay to post in this thread.

Spent an hour and 15 minutes working at catching up on my weeding. I should have begun earlier in the morning. It's warm, sunny, and very humid. Supposed to be nearly 90*F this afternoon with thunderstorms rolling in. I might get some more weeding done before the storms. Tomorrow (Sunday) won't be as warm. Monday on for several days the high is supposed to be in the 70*'s. Good weeding weather.

update - I got some more time in for a total of 3 hours of hand weeding today before my wife chased me out of the garden. She said it's too hot. She's right.

[Bex]

Even though I'm new here I hope it's okay to post in this thread.

Absolutely it is we're a nosey lot.

I spent the morning at work and afternoon at lottie, mooching about and topping up my tan. Oh and I also watered everything 😉


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[DWSmith]

... we're a nosey lot.

That's the second time I've been told that so it must be true.

[Deano's "Diggin It"]

Played about with project 2, project 1 my own yard never Seems to get ya further! Wonder why!



Up to press "Happy" bit's of in filling to do!

Ya can't beat good old "Yorkshire" stone!

but the kids seem happy!

[Martin H]

I had a nice day today. This morning I tidied up the back garden. We've had a lot of rain lately so the ground was finally soft enough to get canes in to tie back herbaceous plants. I've been meaning to tie in my chrysanths for about 6 weeks now so it was good to finally get them sorted out and disbudded.

I can now get down all my paths and sit at my table again!

This afternoon I took my spare tomato plants down the allotment and got them planted. If I get a crop I'll have too many tomatoes but I can't bring myself to throw them away. They are next to some potatoes however so will probably get blighted before they ripen. Finally I got digging my last vegetable bed that had been heavily compacted under fitted carpet until a couple of months ago. Just turning over the top spit with a fork will let the rain in. It was hard going but at least it was possible to make a start after all the wet weather. Maybe tomorrow I'll finish the job...

[Snadger]

As it was chucking it down with rain I had a session inside the greenhouses, weeding,sideshooting and tying up tomatoes.
Took home a ginormous gherkin which I've just chopped up and pickled to see what it turns out like?
Off work for a week now so hopefully I can knock the plot into shape. Just bought some seeds. Two lots of turnips(orange and purple top) ,mooli,spring cabbage and mixed perennial flowers so might have a seed sowing session to break the boredom of weeding all the time.

[Bren In Pots]

Planted out mixed lettuce that I'd grown in modules Ive put them in between other crops hoping the slugs wont spot them that easy.

[Deano's "Diggin It"]

At last!............Got some planting out done!







I am truly miles behind this year with work commitments etc, I was actually beginning to doubt myself!

But catching up! Slowly!

[Snadger]

Harvested my shallots grown from shallots I kept from last year. Planted 15 shallots and would guess i've got a crop exceeding 40lb of good sized bulbs.
Dug over the area vacated by the shallots and sowed Mooli.
Did loads of hand weeding.
Made myself sick scoffing gooseberries, raspberries,strawberries,whitecurrants and redcurrants!
When I bought some half price seeds yesterday I got a free packet of perennial mixed flower seeds. It wasn't until I read the packet details later that I realised there were about 30 different types of seed in it!Planted some of these in a moduled tray with a mini greenhouse over it and we'll just have to see what comes up?

Dibbled in about 30 leeks.

Procured a roll of black plastic membrane to cover the Community plot with until we can get some grants to do something with it. £37.00 for 100m/sq of plastic didn't seem too bad.
Had to hang around until the Treasurer arrived on site later to get reimbursed for planned expenditure!

[Two_Sheds]

- pulled 100s of onions & shallots, best harvest ever. Hung in string bags to dry out
- pulled up the dead pea and BB plants, chopped them roughly & left on soil as a mulch*
- planted lettuce, cuke, squash, leeks in the empty bits
- gave all the green manures another trim with shears, left the bits on beds as a mulch
- planted 3 clematis that were reduced to £1 each
- tied up bunches of poppy & nigella to dry in the shed, for seed
- trimmed hedges at home with my little electric shears
- tied in the long new stems on the climbing rose
- harvested dry seeds of poppy, caliente mustard & foxglove
- pinched out more tops of climbing beans, and picked a bowl full for dinner


* when I need the space for a crop, the mulch gets pushed aside . the mulch keeps the beds moist & less weedy

[DWSmith]

Yesterday I finished the last marathon session of hand weeding to catch up so tonight I went out to the garden with the draw hoe in hand and spent less than an hour working before I had the whole garden completed. That's the way it's supposed to be.