What I did today 2012-2014

[Florence Fennel]

Potted on some tomato plants from the polystyrene cups I'd put them in. Don't know why, but the ones in the cups are definitely not doing as well as the ones in regular three inch pots.- Had not made much growth at all. Will be interesting to see if they improve now.

Now there's a coincidence (or not, as the case may be), the ones I've got in polystyrene cups aren't doing very well either. Time to get them out methinks!

[binley100]

At the lottie........redid the fleece over my onion sets , some are sprouting Used my Lidls cloche hoops with debris netting to cover a brassica bed ......sowed some kohl rabi .... sowed more peas and surrounded them with prickly stuff , then fixed up string supports and netting (dwarf peas block sown) ..collected up more pebbles for the pond beach .....spotted a tadpole .....rescued yet another ladybird from the water butt......
At home ......potted on a selection of squashes into their own pots ...watered where needed ....

[BarleySugar]

In the greenhouse - pricked out celeriac and cape gooseberry plants. Excess celeriac (the smaller ones) will be used among brassicas to deter cabbage whites (Gertrud Franck companion planting).

[Pa Snips]

Nothing really worth mentioning on the gardening front.

Turned my drysuit inside out and washed it...ooh, that thing was getting wiffy!

[woody21]

i dug out my first ever tree stump and am not looking forward to the bigger ones, moved a delivery of manure and then it got cold so back indoors and sowed some seeds.
another good day for me.

[Loudbarker1]

A bit over weekend and Monday off from work.

Odds and sods of weeding.

Spead slug pellets on Saturday round recently germinated carrots, beetroot and radish Some parsnips poking up through the radish as well which is good. Even though it's really cold at night soem things have sufferred.

Watering seeds germinated seeds in (mother's) hot house: courgettes, pumpkins, cucumbers, (none of these up yet) sunflowers and peas (came up over weekend - telephone peas slightly behind and not germinating quite so well as champion of england), tomatos (slowly germinating) lettuce, leeks, spring onions all needing regular watering - find the seed compost dries out really quickly. On the otherhand gerination of samll seedas has been bettwre than with multipurpose.) Some of the seeds were planted on the border between multipurpose compost (underneath) and seed compost on top).

Harvested a big bag of perpetual spinage. Only just got there in time - one or two plants going to seed. Should get another cut before they come out to be replaced by courgettes.

Still covering early spuds with black polythene every night. Will cover over completely soon but holes in to keep weeds down. Next year willl use weed surpressing fabric instead.

Tried experiment with currents: received a free black current last week (var Titania) and planted into pot. As you are supposed to do I cut down the stems to a couple of inches above soil level. I have potted up the cuttings into compost (two five each stems into two pots) in hopes they root and provide new plants for free. if they do I will have 5 plants for £2.50 postage which sounds like a bargain.

Also took a few cuttings from my existing rose current (Glorie de Sablon) and red current (Rovado) to treat in the same way: the aim here is to produce stock for cordons for my new garden. Each cordon prodces much less than a bush (obviously ) but with more plants you get more currents for a given area.

The books say you should do this in the autumn, but since I was cutting out the blackcurrents anyway I see no reason not to do it now.

Watered soft fruit generally - tayberries, blueberries, blackberry and the currents.

[Snadger]

Sowed a packet of sweetcorn into modules. Sowed a packet of broad beans into a tray. Sowed an old packet of 12 courgettes from 2008................if I get a couple to germinate I'll be pleased! I lit woodburner and burned a bit more of my old wooden greenhouse framework.

[SeleneMourie]

Got the plot 2 weeks ago and it is just full of quarry stones and coveres in dandelions.
Raked the 1m x 2m bed over and over... OH double digged the next bed along which is the same size to pull out rocks and dig out the weeds
Lopped off dandelion heads that are all over the plot, thinking of covering them in card board?

Checked on all the seedlings at hole and the things in the blowaway which are all doing nicely

[GardenFaery]

Nothing much, as went into Nottingham re work, which promptly reminded me of ALL the reasons why I live in the country and not in the city - CONCRETE JUNGLE :O

Bought 3 lemon balms plants to plant underneath plum tree

[Loudbarker1]

Didn't do anything but looked and gloated at pumpkins (Jack O'Lantern) and courgette (defender) which have come up overnight. (or some of them have anyway.) Courgette soleil and cucumbers all planted at the same time haven't shown yet though. Tomotos coming nicely and I need to think about hardening off brassica, lettuce, leeks and spring onions. What do people think about just putting the brassica and lettuce straight outside but under a jam jar (from cold house)? After a week I would start takign the jar off during the day. (There are about 200 leeks and onions so not really the right way for them)

[Snadger]

Potted on a tray full of leeks that I started from 'grass' last october. I was starting to harden them off in the tray to plant out a bit later. they looked w wee bit pale in colour so i thought i would pot them on individually and put them back in the greenhouse.
I fund out why they were looking pale though, the tray they were standing in had no drainage holes and they were basically waterlogged.
Hopefully now they are potted into fresh compost and bigger pots they should romp away. They are about 3/8" in diameter and are a bit bulbous at the bottom but hopefully once they get there roots into the new compost they will lose this bulbishness.
Originally from show stock, these should make canny leeks to eat before my spring sown ones are ready.

[binley100]

Corrected the growing habit of a courgette seed that had lost its sense of direction .......watered as and where ....not a lot really due to inclement weather and work

[jdlondon]

Planted out land cress and wong bok below the peas. Everything transplanted to the bed is doing well, despite some being teeny when moved, so fingers crossed they'll be fine when I leave them all alone next week. Even the small cucumber is fine, but it looks definitely happier with a plastic bottle cloche than without.

Painted wood for the next bed, got paint on some clothes, used sub white spirit to get it off, plonked into washing machine - now everything stinks! Hung outside despite showers in hope stink evaporates.

[Bren In Pots]

Sown my courgettes and cucs in the heated propagator.

[kentishgal]

Finally got some compost to fill some of my raised beds. So have sown carrots, spinach, red onions, spring cabbage and beetroot leaving one spare row that I might chuck some lettuce, spring onion and radish in for now.
Also discovered that my raspberry canes are definatley dead thanks to one of the dogs pulling one out and eating it! Nothing to do now til the rain stops...