What I did today 2012-2014

[VirginVegGrower]

Hoed off two flower borders and did some planting. Cleaned the chicken hut and dealt with another death.

[Peppo]

Last night I inspected the new water butt just arrived. Looks good.
Move seedlings indoor and watered a few things.

This morning moved seedling outdoor.
Thinking about tomorrow installing the water butt at the fron garden. Got to buy one or two concrete slabs from the local shop.

[Bexy]

Today i have sorted My no dig spud experment to see if it works any better as i got my new potatos mixed up with my First Earlys so they are in the wrong bags 'DoH' so put some more first earlys down on some over turned Grass which i removed for my beds and topped with some Compost and poped the spuds in the compost then but some Grass cuttings onto we shall see.

I am Also Waiting for my water butt kit to come i just hope the Diverter thingy fits our square Down pipe

[Sanjo]

Turned over the bed where I intend to put my sweetcorn, incorporating plain cardboard and the first grass cuttings of the year. A robin kept me company nearly the whole time I was doing it. It's a raised bed and in parts was very dry so the poor little thing didn't get much! Going back outside after lunch to top dress with home made compost.

[jdlondon]

Took all day but finished filling up the bed *doesalittlejig* and rearranged everything else so I no longer have to shuffle sideways to get to the other end of the balcony.

It took all my mpc - 3x70L - as well as my own compost mixed in with used compost, to fill it, so I need to go haul some more over to fill the other container which is a third of its size. Tomorrow. Exhausted now.

[Snadger]

Potted on about 50 Golsen Bear onion seedlings into modules. Dug over small area and planted about 30 onion sets that I'd grown on in a tray.

Started to prep my 'ratproof' bed for my swedes. Bed is about 5m long and 1m wde. Intend surrounding it with Marley pan tiles. I was given about 50 of these for my house extension roof but decided against using them. They are in the way at the allotment so I'll surround a bed with them to get them out of the way and go some way to ratproofing bed.

[horticultural_hobbit]

Filled up the water butt. Dug over what will be the cabbage patch. Checked everything in the wendy house. Resown a butternut squash as the previous one didn't even get to the baby leave stage. Seed case was stuck fast and didn't plan to budge anytime soon.

[GardenFaery]

Bought red onions to plant, new gardening gloves, planted nasturtiums in cloche/propogator, mowed lawns, checked/netted pond, deheaded window box primroses, tiny weeding, pulled out more dead grass shafts from pampass grass and chased frisky lurcher off garden!

[GardenFaery]

Ohh - You have to tell us when you get it!

[rustylady]

Ohh - You have to tell us when you get it!

Get what? Which post are you referring to?

[binley100]

Petrol

today I weeded my pretty beds and then scattered seeds amongst the bulbs (one side) and primroses and herbs ( t'other side) started clearing old strawberry bed , took delivery of some cabbage seedlings from my lottie neighbour (never refuse they can always be passed on ) scattered wild flower seeds in front of hedge and harvested some psb. Came home and had a pretty seed sowing frenzy in the gh .....

[Currysniffa]

This afternoon I got round to glazing the greenhouse on my full plot, just need to give it a clean and its ready to go

[fattyfisher]

Today I gave the front garden a mow, made four raised beds out of decking from B&Q (2.49 a length... Bargain) which I then placed around my four fruit trees. Into these I have planted three Asparagus crowns and 1 rhubarb crown each. Made four strawberry hanging baskets up, but have put these back under cover in preparation for the upcoming weather change!

[Two_Sheds]

- the alfalfa (semi-permanent green manure) is now 12" high so I chopped it into a mulch
- dug yellow daffs out of home garden and transplanted in school garden (I hate yellow)
- dug pink hyacinths out of home garden and transplanted in school garden (I hate pink)
- finally finished moving the builders' dumped topsoil onto the school beds
- finally finished moving the builders' dumped gravel onto RustyLady's driveway
- watered all the new plantings (no rain due at all)
- planted out onion seedlings (Bedfordshire Champ looking much better than Ailsa Craig)
- moved germinated stuff out of props and into gh
- moved hardy annuals out of gh onto patio for hardening off (back in again at teatime)
- sowed more stuff in props
- watered & fed all the windowsill seedlings (chillies, tomatoes, fuchsias & pelargoniums)
- bought and used an awesome new bath pump to water the back garden
- collected a doggy bag of seaweed from the beach to make a plant tonic
- pulled the first strings of bindweed out - let this year's battle commence
- hard pruned school's last & biggest buddleja: is that hard for the plant or hard for the gardener?
- pruned the rose (MrsK will think I've killed it and throw a fit)
- barrowed all the shrub prunings into the wildlife garden, chucked behind trees as a mulch
- bought more pompom dahlias, will force for cuttings to increase my stock

[jdlondon]

- collected a doggy bag of seaweed from the beach to make a plant tonic


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Do you make it the same way as with comfrey, nettles and borage? - squished in a milk container and topped with water?