What I did today 2012-2014

[Snadger]

The only gardening related thing i did today was to give my lawn at home the first chop of the season.

[Pa Snips]

Sowed broccoli, beetroot, carrot, cauliflower, cabbage, lettuce and onion sets direct to the raised bed.

[Two_Sheds]

- moved the germinated stuff out of the heated props (3) and to gh or windowsills
- potted on month-old tomatoes
- fed the windowsill fuchsias, ipomoea & pelargoniums with my 'special recipe'
- pegged out the new spud bed at school, and dug 8 holes for them to go into
- pruned another buddleja & the oaks that keep poking me in the head
- got spuds planted with school garden club
- they also single-handedly, without my "help", constructed 2 raised beds
- collected more ladybirds for the aphid infestation in my gh
- sowed carrot & radish in the school's new salad bed

[bethduckie]

Dug some of the potato patch. Dug trenches. Got a short row of new potatoes in the ground and an even shorter row of parsnips- not destoned the ground for the rest yet. Came home and ordered several cheap tarps after realising my weed control fabric has simply ripped through the pegs in the wind and blown away- grr! Tarp held down by bricks it is then!

[VirginVegGrower]

Lawns mowed and added to compost bin. Two fruit trees planted, a Plum Opal in homage to Zazen and a Cambridgeshire greengage, also in homage to my foraging friend! Fed all the fruit trees and mulched. Moved germinated stuff into greenhouse.

[horticultural_hobbit]

Dug part of the miscellaneous bed up to then sown dad's rocket, some bright lights chard, garlic chives and coriander. Filled the water butt, now that we have water again. Fed and watered the allieums. Took home some of the winter valdor lettuce. Came home, and have sown all nine different curcurbits. A lot, I know, but I am pleading naivete. Have officially given up the ghost when it comes to bell peppers and chillies.

[VirginVegGrower]

Daughter sowed her sunflower seeds and labelled her GO lettuce and rocket with our names

[Bigmallly]

What a beautiful day!...went down to lottie, built my 3rd and final brassica cage. Potted on some Cauli & Cabbage seedlings. Weeded & mulched the strawberry bed. Had a natter to HM & listened to her frogs singing........

[hamamelis]

Made it down to the 'lotment, but mainly gossiped with the neighbours... Planted out a rosemary and my new little rhubarb, only to notice that the one I thought was dead, that came with the plot and did nothing at all last year, is putting out new leaves! Together with the big plant I moved from home over winter, I'd better start looking up rhubarb recipes soon!

Planted a few spuds, but only a couple- realised I really can't dig the beds with a trowel, and I'm not allowed to dig properly for 3 more weeks, so organised a friend to help, and also take over a bed or so. She's coming over next nice day- which is great, but means I have to work out some kid entertainment, as her little un's coming too, with her 5 second attention span...

Going to plant up some stuff at home tonight- I think some brussels, nasturtians, peas, and anything else I can squeeze on to the windowsill- maybe a few summer squash.

[binley100]

Inbetween bouts of sploshy managed to plant out my first earlies .......moved a few toms into the gh .....

[Gurberly]

Most of teh early veg sowing is already completed so concentrated on the "pretty" stuff today and sowed a few seeds into modules
Lupins
Purple cone flower
Hosta

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[ladylottie]

Spent two and a half hours in the sunshine this afternoon weeding underneath my 16 foot row of raspberries then mulched it with manure.

[Kaiya]

Ta VVG, at least that shows on Google . No disrespect Kaiya, I haven't heard of Bocking either

I think in that post I'd decided to go with varieties (mispelt or otherwise) and abandon all plant names! Very helpful of me.

Today I mulched the overwintering onions, garlics, shallots and fruit bushes with the first grass clippings of the year and filled up the dalek. Then I bemoaned my very raggedy broad beans - first severe frost damage, now something's munching on them.

I also planted my first potatoes in sacks in the cold blowaway - 2 King Edward (I realise now it's probably a bit early for maincrops, but hey-ho) in one, and 3 Anya and a spare Charlotte in the other.

And I attempted to make a composting heater thing - black box, layered grass clippings and cardboard, and stuck it in the bottom of the warmer blowaway in the hope it will generate heat.

[Loudbarker1]

Good weekend's work! Lots done, but not as much as I wanted to.

Turned compost heat - missed opportnity to get out the well rotted bits though.
Shopped for multiuse compost (for potato bags - 3 x50l for £10 at B&Q; seed compost and grow bags. Also got seaweed solution which I think is really useful.

Planted in warm greenhouse:
1) red cabbage (3 pots of Red Jewel and Red Drumhead)
2) savoy cabbage (6 pots of Tarvoy)
3) calebrase 3 pots of Ramesco - I don't like calebrase but it's the only brassica the children eat and I got free seeds from one of the mags.
4) cauliflower - 3 pots just for fun. of All the Year Round just t see if I can grow it - another freebee.
5) 200 leek plants - mixture of Musselbrough and Musselbrough Improved which if they grow wll get us through from December 2011 until March 2012 pretty well. We eat loads of leeks in soup and braised.


Also planted potatos: one (3m) row each of Sharpe's Express, Arran Pilot and Red Duke of York with a trowel into a hole a couple of inches deep and then a couple more inches of (home made) compost on top followed by a double layer of black plastic. Glad I added this because there was a frost last night that would have burned off the sprouts for sure if it had got to them. Plan is that overwintering brassicas (PSB especially, but may have some kale) will go in after the earlies have been lifted. Other half of the bed will have four or five courgette plants (2x defender, 3x soleil) a bit later on and then overwintering broad beans will go in after them. Need to get the nemaslug on spuds soon!

Had about 5mm of rain over weekend as well which was really helpful.

Also mowed the lawn for the first time this year.

Worried that the frost will have got to the peas planted outside last week and the borad beans lanted about 3 or four weeks ago.

[Thelma Sanders]

sowed my leeks this morning