What I did today 2012-2014

[traceys plot]

Dug veg plot, planted some hardy seeds like cabbage, radish etc... had a tidy up noted chard coming in greenhouse all doing well more chillies up indoors too.

[Matt94]

just washed the last of my trays and started on some of the pots!

[hollychap]

sown some celriac in greenhouse , started to dig out some excess soil in the lottie greenhouse bought 4 scotch bonnet type chillis from the asian supermaket for the seeds

[snuffer]

Only a little bit of rain here today, so managed to get some more digging and hoeing done. I am really enjoying being able to get some work done outside for a change.

[Vince G]

Started building my brassica cages. Gonna have 2 8' x 8' cages. Mrs Vince and I love our brassicas!! Chcuked it down from about 2:30 here, so got to go back and finish tomorrow, can't come soon enough as birds are enjoying my broccoli a bit too much at present!

[Tripmeup]

Harvested some brussels sprouts, some PSB and for the first time everrr...sowed some tomato and chilli seeds in a propagator...lookin forward to seeing how they get on...then as light faded had quick look at my upto now healthy beans, only to see that the slugs had begun to attack have covered them with half bottles now

[BarleySugar]

I emptied the compost bin in the garden, bagging it all up and took it to the allotment, together with a plank for standing on when sowing and planting. I also sowed some beetroot and kohl rabi in modules in the cold greenhouse. The celeriac went into the heated propagator.
I also dug up some self sown foxgloves to pot into modules for planting on the perimeter of the allotment site and found some aqualegia seedlings in a tray that I'd forgotten about. Then a general tidy round, it's amazing how much rubbish get blown into the back garden.

[adamhartree]

Sowed some primo cabbage along with a tray of marigolds. Had a general potter around the garden then desided to have a couple of hours at the allotment only to find when I got there,my lock for my gate to my plot had frozen so I couldn't get in, and silly me I had put the wd40 inside the shed on the plot. I sometimes wonder if I had a brain I would be dangerous.

[Kaiya]

We went on a tour of garden centers yesterday looking for screening tree ideas, plus I used it to check out compost prices before ending up in B&Q and buying 180l MCP there. I did buy some things from the garden centres - seed compost (first time ever) and I also bought precisely four Valour tubers since it said they were very disease resistant all-rounders. Checked on the chitting taters at home; Anya doing well if slow, Charlotte supermarket ones tubers not chitting and in fact going soggy in places (previous suspected cold damage) so abandoned them.

Today I bagged up four bags of oak leaves from the lawn and borders finally. I sowed some onions and leeks in modules in the blowaway (first seeds of the year!). Then visted the allotment for the first time since the snow - the japanese onions are a bit battered but otherwise fine, the garlic and shallots are romping away, very happy chappies, but the overwintered broadies are pretty much decimated There are a few little green heads re-emerging from the base of some of the plants but all 24 plants have taken a severe beating. I also measured the allotment with an actual rule - turns out my strides are pretty much 1m long.

[Matt94]

ive just dug over a 2m by 2m square in my neighbours garden, not the easiest thing to do when its been left untouched for about 30 years and not covered in brambles.

[snuffer]

Finished digging the veggie. garden at home. Will make a start on the lottie during the week.

[T8Ter]

Went down the lottie, dug another 20ft X 9ft, soil weighs a ton at the moment, hope we have a couple more hard frosts. Bought 10 bags of seed potatoes at lottie shop (Scottish seed, 3kg £2 ) got Maris Piper and Desiree, that'll sort out some of the plot
Planted three fruit trees from Aldi at home, anyone know where to get a new back from ?

[Snadger]

Productive day today!
Lit the woodburner and had a reet auld tidy up of greenhouses.
My son had thrown out an indoor rabbit hutch which looks like a giant propagator. Put it on my greenhouse bench, filled the bottom four inches or so with compost and after shaking all the soil off my chrysanthemum stools, potted them up for cuttings.
As they were all in the buckets that they had flowered in in the greenhouse this released a lot more space.
Moved the garlic in large pots to a sunnier space where they didn't cast shade on my other seedlings.
Planted up four trays of shallots
A good finish to the day was being told by another plotholder who was packing in this year that I was welcome to anything left on their plot. I'll have a good rummage tomorrow evening.

[binley100]

A lotta digging ...........can't wait till tomorrow

[VirginVegGrower]

Turned the compost heaps, separated them out and riddled twelve feed sacks (horse), half filled (very heavy to carry) with scrummy (?!) compost. Used some as top dressing on pots and borders, plus knot garden at home. The rest will complete my two beds at the allotment, currently without mulch. I have tidied up my herbaceous at home, six borders to go at - added it all to the number 1 compost bin, which has filled it. Swept out the greenhouse. Raked up half a cage of oak leaves off the garden AGAIN...grr! At least I can use it in two years. Finished building my brick honeypot planter, filled that with compost and rotted down leaf mold...now what to put in it!
Planted three containers up with nerines and agapanthus. Repotted some gnarled tulips in a pot that I had forgotten about. Then sat and watched the sun go down from my greenhouse (I put an iron seat in there). The thermometer read 23 degrees inside. Its not now though