What I did today 2012-2014

[Florence Fennel]

Watered everything. Can't wait for the delivery of my hosepipe on Friday. Potted on more tomatoes into their final buckets. Sowed mixed salad and coriander in containers (not the same one I hasten to add). Cleared the debris from the flower planters ready for some cheerful annuals. Tidied up the stayput and my potting bench. Had a really good, productive day.

[ladylottie]

Went to lottie this morning at 9am and hoed round both plots (how can so many weeds grow through in just two days?). Then I planted out 50 leek plants and chatted to one of the blokes who is going to do some work on my glass shed. Had just done that and it started to rain heavily and it's rained heavily ever since. Hopefully tomorrow it will be drier.

[SarrissUK]

Weeded my onions, shallots and garlic today, and planted a good 15 plants of turk's turban, pattypans, green, yellow courgettes, as well as Zephyr courgettes. Weeded my beetroot that are doing appallingly bad, tied in broad beans and got too tired before I could get the peas, runner beans and french beans in the ground. Will have to go back tomorrow. Got six strawbs to go in too. Fantastic day though - lovely sun most of the day! Wish I could have my tea cooked for me tonight lol

[Bren In Pots]

Potted on my spare aubergines that are going to live in the kitchen window.

[BarleySugar]

I woke up at 5am, so as the weather was dry with rain forecast later, I was up the plot by 6. I finally got the rest of my squash planted, and then trimmed the grass paths. Back home by 7.30 to wake up the rest of the family, then went to see Men In Black 3 (really enjoyed it ).

[eirish]

This!



Constructed a wigwam and planted out runner beans and sweet peas. They're the first of my indoor-started seedlings to get planted out - I'm so proud.

[Currysniffa]

Yesterday potted up the chilli/sweet peppers, aubergines and cucumbers in greenhouse number 2 on the allotment. Also planted 6 Roma tomatoes and 4 rows of Dwarf French Beans.



Today planted another 2 rows of leggy Dwarf French Beans and a couple more tomatoes outside. Also took two water butts to the lottie for the new greenhouse.

[donnakebab]

Went to lottie for about 3 hours this morning. Planted out some little gem lettuce. Constructed a chicken wire frame ready for my gherkins. Started digging over one of the beds that were planted with green manure. Earthed up potatoes. Transplanted some pot marigolds around the plot to encourage hover flies and thus their aphid eating larvae. Lots of weeding. Cut some rhubarb and some mint for my mom and went to see her before going home.

Then, potted on some chillies, planted some little gem lettuce in a trough in the garden and potted my Golden Grape toms into their flower buckets.

[binley100]

Sorted out the inside of the fruit cage , by strimming and raking the weeds. Covering the empty weed infested bit with cardboard. Weeded round the fruit bushes then mulched with newspaper topped off with semi rotted leaves . Helped OH lift our IBC into the right place after he cleared the ground . We sortd out some temporary downpipe from the shed guttering (waiting shed renovations) to make the most of the forecasted rain ....oh and pulled my bolted japanese onions , peeled , sliced and froze them ......net weight 1.5kilo with some unbolted ones still in the ground .

[Loudbarker1]

Rain on and off over whole 4 day weekend, but still managed a bit.

Harvested first lettuce and broad beans from my garden this year: summer delights!
Watered soft fruit, potatos (in conatiners) pumpkin (in container) etc etc with help from miss and master loudbarker.

Thinned parnips

Weeded generally: this is really working: and beds look mostly clean having had layers of compost dumped on them in the spring (mostly home made but a bit purchased.) Added layer of compost around the spuds with a bit of pelleted chicken dung.

Put labels on soft fruit layers planted out a couple of months ago - there are black, red and rose currents so the labels are mostly guess work, but since they were all planted at the same time I will be able to swap them round if they survive and fruit.

Sowed 2nd lot of french beans (allegria) , 2nd lot of early sprouting and late sprouting PSB and 2nd lot of swedes (marian and joan to compare) in mother's hot house. Discovered she has mice or slugs: the first lot of the brassicas has been nibbled, so down go traps and slug pellets. (Do mice eat brassicas?) Also put in for fun a few seeds of white lady and scarlet empire runner beans (see below).

Erected wigwam for sweet peas to climb up and planted out a mix of sweet peas at the bottom. Will put in aforementioned runner beans as well: the theory is that the smell of the sweet peas will attract the pollinators to the beans.

Mowed lawn. Turned compost as an excuse for miss loudbarkers's homework: she has ben asekd to study slugs, snails, spiders etc. We have plenty of those!

Next week really need to plant next round of seeds: carrots, turnips, raddishes, lettuce, beetroot. I'll need to mow lawn again and weed pathways and generally clear and tidy garden; and I want to weed generally those bits that need it, especially under the brassica cage. I expect I will need to clear the overwintered broad beans as well. Do I dare try the new potatos (Sharpe's express)? Do need to thin carrots.

[kentishgal]

Ive been out for yet more compost (trying very hard not to think about how much Ive spent on dirt this year!). Put some canes on the broad beans and tied them in, gave up on the leeks ever getting any bigger and decided to just plant about 16 in a big tub to see if they grow. Also potted on some herbs (mint, fennel, oregano, cumin and hyssop).
aaaaaand now its raining...big surprise!
edited for this afternoon- tied in the sweet peas, did some weeding, put up a trellis for the poor passionflower which was trying to wind its way around a tree stump!
(why is it you can never go into the garden without having a tinker with something!!LOL).

[Bren In Pots]

Weeded around in my parsnip bed and relocated some that were far too close together they probably wont do anything but I felt mean composting them.

[Rhoda]

Today I have weeded, cleared dead leaves, evicted caterpillars and snails and admired my beautiful runnerbeans

[binley100]

Planted out some yellow climbing frenchies, gherkins, a kiwano and some marvel of four seasons lettuce. Planted an amber nectar and minnesota midget melon also a watermelon under a cloche. Popped yet another aub into the gh and we set up our leaky hose (if it works ) took out some pathetic garlic (wilkos finest ) and one which was bought on the market (much better) weeded the asparagus bed and mulched with compost. Oh started making a willow woven fence round the pond area to prevent Jake causing a landslide of the pebble beach .........

[Gearoid]

Planted out my outdoor tomatoes (Gardeners Delight) and sowed some bush beans (Purple Teepee). Also planted out some old fashioned sweet peas which I'd forgotten about and sowed seeds of nasturium and calendula.