What I did today 2012-2014

[BertieFox]

SOWED, pak choi, mizuna greens, curly kale 'Frostara', spring cabbage, Red Russian kale, all in the polytunnel beds. Also sowed the same in small pots in heated propagator, mainly as a 'back up' in case the others don't germinate successfully or get eaten by the slugs or snails. I will pot up the pot sown ones in modules and plant out in late winter or early spring in the tunnel for an early crop.

HARVESTED last climbing French beans, peppers, small orange tomatoes 'Naranjita', and some aubergines, all from the tunnel. Outside harvested red and green ('spring') cabbages which have done well planted through black plastic.

[Bigmallly]

As I don't need it till next March, the new greenhouse has become a 3 bedded compost bin..........

[Florence Fennel]

Took down the runner beans - my son's coming tomorrow so he'll dismantle the wigwam. Planted up a strawberry bag for my youngest GG. She was going to do it herself, but the plants arrived yesterday and she's gone to the seaside for a week, so she asked me to do it! I've now bought the bag and the plants, provided the compost and planted the bloomin' things.

[veggiechicken]

Bet you won't get to eat them, though, Flo

I've been weeding, raking and hoeing, in between showers. Planted a few odds and ends in the GH too - and I took the squash down from the side of the GH. Another sad day

[Snadger]

Arrived at allotments this morning for 7.00am to take delivery of 20 tonnes of hardcore for the road along inside the allotment gates.
I was hoping the wagon driver would be able to back along the road and gradually tip as he was moving forward!

Not to be, he got as far as the allotment gates and said he couldn't get through them! I then had a choice between sending him away or dumping 20 tonne right in front of the allotments entrance...........I chose the latter!
Because i was the only one on site at that time in the morning I started barrowing the hardcore and tipping and raking it in front of my two plots. This way if no one turned up to assist at least I had done my bit.
As it happens it turned out to be a good team building exercise as more people turned up and we had a convoy of wheelbarrows going backwards and forwards with others loading barrows and others raking level.
All of road now has a good covering and there's even a big pile left to get rid of tomorrow! You still can't drive a car in but at least there's a path through the pile to access the site.
If you're reading this Treasurer and Chairperson..........where was you!

[skeggijon]

Collected a large trailer full of pallets to build my new shed with. Took a pear, victoria plum and apple tree down to lotty, along with my bargain B&Q greenhouses, which until now have been stacked in the back garden and harvested a few more rip peppers and chillis.

[Greenleaves]

Spent 4 hours digging over the plot while Mrs Greenleaves painted the shed. Time to tuck in to dinner..

[Tripmeup]

Planted my garlic and elephant garlic and a row of garlic rounds too...
Planted 4 different varities of winter onions..
Still have to pot on or plant out my seed sown winter onions

[hamamelis]

Picked up a load more freecycle roof tiles to edge beds with, and made a start on the first bed.

I've done about 1/3 of the first bed before it got dark, and I think I have at least 8 more beds I'd like to do. Erk. I am doing the ones with the thinnest and worst soil first though, so hopefully it will get easier.

[Oguzhan16]

What I DID Today in my Garden!

Hi all, today i checked my garden as per usual. I picked 7 beets because i needed room for some radishes i sprouted 4 weeks ago. So there in the beetroots place now.

I will enjoy some beetroot crisps tonight, Have a good week.

[Snadger]

Harvested some apples before the parrots got them! One of them had already been attacked by a flock of wild parrots that seem to have established themselves in the neighborhood (And no, I'm not joking!)
Stripped some corn on the cob that I had hanging up to dry for next years seed. Its now drying off fully in the bedroom, along with tomato and climbing frenchie seed.
Harvested some tomatoes, PSB and a small cabbage for my dinner.

[Bill HH]

Parrots!!! In Newcastle!!! Thats sounds like a real problem, but there is one consolation I suppose in that they might ask you "Who's a pretty boy then" occasionaly.

As for what I did today, I demolished a load of cardboard into little pieces for the compost. i have found if its been out in the rain for a while it breaks up a lot easier then if its dry.

[Bigmallly]

Be careful Deano, a thread was closed recently relating to tampered gas bottles.

[Deano's "Diggin It"]

Cheers BM!
Didn't think I was doing any wrong!

But if so! Guidance would be good!

Really need to call it a day!

"Knackered"

[Hazel at the Hill]

Had a look at what the storms have done the the Hill whilst I've been away (not much ), then cut the last of the courgettes and composted the plants; squash ditto.

Cut down all the rasps - I need to replace the wooden posts which have wire running across as supports in time for next year, as the ones on the path side have perished in the soil. With the canes cut down I can see what I'm doing. Weeded the bed too, and debated whether to mulch with compost (quite fresh) or wood chippings.

Weeded under the netting tunnel, and was glad to see about half of the cabbage and cauli seedlings have survived - I planted them out too small, and suspected that the snails and slugs would have the lot.

Took three garlic bulbs down to plant out, but ran out of time to prep and plant them - it won't take long to do it when I'm next there, though.

Picked the first of the tuscan kale - tried without success not to transport a blizzard of whitely home with me in the car.