What I did today 2012-2014

[Paulieb]

My latest seed order arrived (which I didn't really need), so can we just skip work tomo and go straight to Saturday when I can get more sowing done.

Also need to build the new greenhouse at somepoint.

Anybody know how to make 8 days in a week?!?

[Peppermint]

(Yesterday) Spent my lunch break buying more seed potatoes (I'm sorry but it's rather addictive ) and some used jute potato sacks. Then pottered on down to Lidl and bought a tray of box hedging plants. Spent the evening reading the internet on how to grow on the said plants and when to take cuttings.

[Pa Snips]

Sowed broccoli, cabbage, jalapeño & cayenne chillies, mixed salad leaves and cress.

[Snadger]

After work I dug over an area about 5 foot by 4 foot and cleared raspberry canes from a similar area and planted 'long canes' straight away.
Stuck a few supports around the edge but will make a better job of it another time (ran out of daylight)

[Matt94]

came home to find that my dad had been and bought me some wood for my raised beds - im a happy bunny!

[Creemteez]

Up at five for work.
Work 6-9 am
Home. Made Sour dough Loaf, Lemon Drizzle Cupcakes and Coconut Shortbread Biscuits.
Cut grass.
Visited elderly friend in village mowed her lawns (back and front). Pruned some shrubs.
Home. Picked up vanload of rubbish and took to the dump.
Bought Van road tax.
Took Dog to the beach.
Went to lottie where step son was strimming hedges and bank and helped rake up trimmings.
Home. Blow dried the dog (don't look like that, he badgers me until I do it!!)
Fed the dog.
Fed the Husband. Poured large glass of Alcafrolic Ginger Beer......

[binley100]

Eldest's front garden........planted shrubs, roses and some perennials. also summer flowering bulbs . Edged the lawn and aerated it in the hopes that one day it will look like a lawn again ....

[VirginVegGrower]

Sowed 75 tomatoes...

[susieq100]

Yesterday, home from work early as OH had scan at hospital. When we got back, finished cleaning out the greenhouse; planted some tomatoes and cucumbers, sweet peas, campanulas (in modules) and leeks. Repotted begonia corms from last year ... will they grow? They've got two chances. It feels really good to make a proper start!

[Thelma Sanders]

Yesterday I sowed Long Red Florence ..never sure whether they are banana shallots or onions ......doesn't matter cos they're lovely anyway

[Florence Fennel]

I'm not long and red Thelma, but I hope part of that description applies to me!

Sowed Calabrese, Sprouts, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Kale, Beetroot, Spring Onions, African Marigolds and trying some Coriander, although I know it's early. They're all in the stayput which is minus one pane until tomorrow, but I've shut the door and it's not cold so hopefully there'll be enough warmth for germination.

WooooooHoooooo!!!!

[Creemteez]

Potted on surviving autumn sown Dwarf Lupin seedlings. Everything sown last week is starting to show (Yay! We're Off!!!). Divided some perennials dug up from my mums garden and potted them on. - Now have twelve pots of a rather nice green/white Sedum and eight pots containing some thing whose name escapes me Clumping, four feet tall, masses of lilac blue bell-like flowers in June/July. - any ideas? It's not Campanula - think it begins with "E"....or possibly.."V"??....
Weeded another bed.

[Matt94]

we have just built a 7 by 4 raised bed, then we built a planter, then i sorted out the shed!

[BarleySugar]

At the plot I put up a plastic cold frame to warm up a patch of soil. It was pretty windy, so I put broken bits of paving over the bottom edges, hopefully to stop it blowing away. I also sowed some more spinach (as per Gertrud Franck) and some carrots between the garlic which is looking great. The surface soil is very dusty already . I've worked out how I'm going to plant (most ) of my seed potatoes. I want the space in the GH, so I might plant them next weekend depending on the weather.
In the greenhouse I pricked out some plug plants of lobelia and petunia I bought during the week and generally watered and had a bit of a tidy again. The spring onions, long red florence onions, kohl rabi and beetroot, all in modules, spent the day outside hardening off, but I'm putting them back in the GH tonight.
I just got back indors for a cuppa, but I'm contemplating going back into the GH before dinner.

[perkin]

- weeded beneath the pear tree and cornus bushes
- edged the area we used to call the lawn before we had chickens
- repotted a new blueberry bush
- sowed sweet peppers, brussels sprouts and shallots
- planted nasturtiums out into the broad bean bed
- harvested the last two parsnips
- fed all the fruit trees and bushes