What I did today 2012-2014

[Pa Snips]

Built an L-shaped raised bed, turned over the soil that the bed is built on, added dried leaves and compost. I now need lots more compost/soil.

Put some seed potatoes into potato bags.

Went to see a guy from Freecycle about some topsoil, got there to find two big bags of what was basically dirty rubble. Ho hum.

I just proof-read what I just typed and it doesn't look like I did much but it took most of the day!!!

[mrbadexample]

Got a fair bit done this weekend:

Sowed in modules 4 types of beetroot, purple-topped turnips, kohl rabi. Planted out spuds - Pentland Javelin & Picasso. Sowed carrots, radishes, more turnips. Sowed marigolds and alyssum. Lots of tidying & barrowing of manure for spuds. Cleaned out chimenea, put ash round gooseberries. Watched England beat France. Watched Bradley Wiggins win Paris-Nice. Bloody nice day all-round, I'd say.

[Peppermint]

(Yesterday) Put chitted Meteor peas into toilet roll tubes and pots (I've run out of tubes now). Popped some more peas in to chit. We have voles so I'm hoping that the chitting process will put them off eating the young plants.

Sowed some marigolds, salad leaf seeds, and pack choi (for cut and come again pots),

Continued to dig the new vegetable bed. Still a way to go there.

[Newton]

Built a munty frame over a path.....
Mixed a compost soil vermiculite mix for earthing up tattles in a new raised bed. The tattles placed at existing soil level.
Potted on greenhouse strawberries. Some now in flower.
Watered the rhubarb"....it's been really dry here the last few weeks.
Watered seedlings.....

[Loudbarker1]

Over the week end I:

Spread the alst of the rotted home made compost on to whwre the spuds will be planted this year;

washed down cloches (removing a layer of grime) with ***** fluid) before placing them onto beds to warm up soil for parsnips, raddishes, lettuce, carrots, spring onions, etc, etc

scrubbed out flower pots with ***** fluid in (probably vain) attempt to keep damping off at bay;

planted peas in loo rolls: clutivars Champion of England and Telephone;

Wondered why my delivery of Sharpes Express hasn't arrived

[keepitgreen]

Went through and organised my seeds. Realising that I had Hundreds of packets that i did not even know I had. Many are out of date too!

Sowed some unknown cabbage seeds that were floating around in the bottom of the box which (if germinate) will make good spring greens.
Also sowed some spring onions too.

Did some reading and learnt about Tree Onion / Egyption onions and perenial herbs.

[Matt94]

planted they first lot of peas out, also planted all (90) white onion sets out. sowed some basil, peas, aubs and spring onions.

[di]

Oh Dear, proved to myself that I really need to work on my DIY skills when I made my first ever compost heap cage, sticks in the ground surrounded with chicken wire...not sure it looks quite as you'd expect it to Zaz...will hopefully hold.
Got a boot full of various garden trimmings from a neighbours garden and started the said compost off with twigs and small branches. Made a little path with cardboard topped with leylandii shreddings...thanks Zaz...kept it in place with some posts laid flat.
A little more digging,
Thought I'd done for the day but my poo mum saw I had the car so ended up filling it with several bags of horse poo so had to go back to the lottie to drop them off.

Oh, and gathered three black sacks of leaves.

[Florence Fennel]

Pricked out and potted on 24 tomatoes. Little and often, little and often.

[Snadger]

Found four of my allotment neighbours hens on my veg plot when I arrived at the allotments. Shoo'd them off and built a makeshift fence along the botom with corrugated tin sheeting. He lets them feree range on his plot but there's only a 2 foot 6 inch high fence between plots.
Shifted the broken up timber frame of my old greenhouse to another place in preparation for erecting another aluminium greenhouse in its place.
It makes wonderful woodburner stove fodder, so much so that I set one of my greenhouse benches on fire with the excess heat.

[Acanthus]

Planted pack of red Styron onions, another of shallots in a spare rather shady corner. Planted up some more containers of potatoes. Pruned autumn rasps and moved some suckers to orchard. Planted spinach,radishes,turnips,spicy greens,mesclun,rocket in polytunnel. Sowed more chillies and Amish paste,pink banana and chocolate Cherokee toms. Weeded,dug some compost from bottom of Dalek.Picked big bunch of daffy for neighbour whose dog is very poorly. OH gave lawn it's first cut then we had a cuppa on the bench. A good day.

[Pa Snips]

Put 300 litres of compost in the new raised bed.
Got all excited as more little green shoots start to reach up to the sunlight in the greenhouse.

[Two_Sheds]

- pegged out the new spud bed at school, and dug holes ready for next week
- planted out loads of chitted peas with garden club
- constructed a pea support out of plastic trellis & canes, leaned & tied against fence
- hung fat balls in the bird feeders ready for breeding season
- watered the new plantings (no rain due this week either)
- painted big pebbles with black acrylic paint, wrote plant names with white pencil, sealed with yacht varnish
- cut down the rampant bamboo at school, got loads of 2ft canes off it
- dug out the bamboo root for the caretaker to have at home, removed pebbles & gravel
- forked over the old bamboo bed & added topsoil and leafmould for the new veg bed
- shook & turned my sacks of leaves, some split (shoddy quality sacks) so I mulched spud beds
- put Flum's Magnum Bonum peas out of the gh daytimes to harden off before planting out
- looked at my garden photos from 3 years ago and quite pleased with what I've done

[greendoc]

Spent the last three days sowing and digging - peppers, chillis, beetroot, lettuces, carrots and leeks sown; got the tomato seedlings coming up nicely ready to pot on, broad beans thinking about it but not being very enthusiastic & there's no sign of life from my new strawberry sowings, but at least the existing bed looks healthy.... sweet peas galore and haven't decided where to put them yet! About 80 onion sets planted. Asparagus bed dug over and trenches ready, need a few more crowns (bought some from B&Q, so I hope they will be ok!). Have to raise my game to dig over the remaining beds ready for parsnip seeds, brassicas and all the peas and beans....

[lottie dolly]

planted shallots,pricked out more toms,sown herbs seeds,and as an experiment this year ,1 each of 4 types of summer squash,if still iffy weather will put into flower buckets for now,and keep inside the double glazed grow barn,
Nice to see the start of cue's showing their heads,and a few melon plants doing ok so far,