What I did today 2012-2014

[rustylady]

Me and the dawg went to the allotment. I weeded the asparagus bed and she sat on the asparagus Brought home a dustbin lid to make a pond for the frogspawn (now froglets) that TS gave me. Did more weeding, picked more flower buds off the overwintering onions. Then went cold and dark so we came home.

[VirginVegGrower]

Sowed all dwarf French bean varieties. Did some more clearing of the Somme, then came in to hide under the duvet. Lit a fire - it's freezing.

[Andromeda]

Potted on beans
Potted on toms
Pricked out winter cabbage
Weeded out beds
Prepared brassica beds for planting out
Repaired 2 wigwams (again)
Fed and watered as necessary

Now I'm home and about to go out to the gh to do some more potting.

[Two_Sheds]

- spent 6 hrs mulching my front garden with newspapers & semi-rotted leafmould
- planted out a load of Canadian Wonder frenchies, direct
- collected lots more seaweed for feed
- was tipped off about the committee: grumbling about my "weeds" (green manures, you numpties)
- so I gave the "weeds" another trim, chopping them directly onto the beds as a mulch
- deadheaded the PSB because new sprouts are forming below the flowering ones
- chopped the flowering branches onto the soil as a mulch
- sowed more sweetcorn: the earlier ones have rotted in the cold
- ditto French beans, I've only had 20%-25% germination, and that's after successful chitting
- sowed purple carrots in the gh, as it's STILL too cold outside for them
- sorted out & updated my Flickr photos

[BarleySugar]

Planted out 4 courgettes (Tuscany) and 7 sweet potatoes.
Weeded brassica beds and covered with environmesh. Cabbage whites have been fluttering around this week but I couldn't see any eggs yet.

[gardenpassion]

Prepared the brassica beds. Tried to construct the fruit cages... need a hand . My constructions seem to fall down with the slightest breeze! Potted on cucumber/courgette/toms/chilli/and watered all of the lovely seedlings sprouting to life with the temp managing to climb above 10 degrees here at last!(minipop, dwarf beans, runner bean, brassicas,peas,more peas) Happy

[binley100]

Did loadsa weeding in the Centenary Garden, then sowed purple, yellow and red carrots . borlotti beans,
callaloo, fenugreek and chick peas.......ran out of day .......

[Peas'n'Kews]

Spent the day on VC's "I bought a wood!" thread!!!!

[Currysniffa]

Spent this morning helping out on the allotment. We've resurfaced the track to the car park with 3 ton of stone then cleared a space for a new metal shipping container that's going to be used as a store room. I've just had my Sunday dinner using some early potatoes that I grew in the greenhouse, they tasted fantastic! Now I'm going to move some seedlings out of the heated prop into a unheated prop to grow on before potting on.

[VirginVegGrower]

Spent this morning helping out on the allotment. We've resurfaced the track to the car park with 3 ton of stone then cleared a space for a new metal shipping container that's going to be used as a store room. I've just had my Sunday dinner using some early potatoes that I grew in the greenhouse, they tasted fantastic! Now I'm going to move some seedlings out of the heated prop into a unheated prop to grow on before potting on.

The allotment pics are looking great CS. Could do with your help here shifted half tonne of gravel today, having five before tackling last two tonnes of hardcore rubbish...yeay! Just watching daughter fill up her own planter with top soil and strawberries are going in...good, that gets rid of my last lot that have been hanging around for a home

[hamesy]

I went up the allotment for hour around lunch time to see how things are getting on. My radish are growing away nicely and I've got more taters coming up. I planted some herbs and put down a layer of mulch around them to try and keep weeds at bay, and I also made a start on making my paths a little neater using bark chippings.

[rustylady]

With the help of daughter and four grandchildren managed to clear loads of weeds, strimmed the paths and more weeds, rehomed the froglets, picked some rhubarb.

[VirginVegGrower]

With the help of daughter and four grandchildren managed to clear loads of weeds, strimmed the paths and more weeds, rehomed the froglets, picked some rhubarb.

That sounds like a nice day

I came in and had to wash the fox poo off the dog, before I could sit down. Dirty stinker! Managed to salvage some celeriac seedlings and potted them on. Planted greenhouse cukes.

[Snadger]

Planted out some sweetheart type cabbages and built a wired cage around them. Planted out some calabrese and had to build another cage around them. Planted out some red torpedo onions in clumps. Accepted some pot grown red cabbage and sprouts from an allotment friend.Harvested some leeks and brought home 10 fresh eggs from my chooks who appear to be starting to lay again. Done lots of weeding and tidying of beds

[Jelliebabe]

potted up the chitted peas - 99 plants... think I must have received a blow to the head when I emptied the pack - theres still loads in the chitting box! also started of some french beans, borlotti beans and runners! YAY I heart beans!