What I did today 2012-2014

[susieq100]

I went to the plot intending to plant some carrots, parsnips, beetroot etc. When I arrived I found that the bark chips I had ordered had been delivered ... hurrah .... unfortunately they had been tipped onto the track leading to the far third of the site, completely blocking the path. So instead I spent 2 hours barrowing wood chips. No planting got done! But there is some pine or cedar or leylandii in there somewhere - they smell wonderful.

[SarrissUK]

Got all my beds weeded without damaging any onions or other plants - hooray! Put down some weed suppressant material, dug over a new bed and did some watering. Got home from the allotment and potted on some tomatoes, kale, cabbages and butter nut squash. Sowed some more tomatoes, kale and sweetcorn. Been a busy day!

[Two_Sheds]

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

Yep, just like that, except I'll be putting some in a squirty bottle to use as a spray tonic

[GardenFaery]

Get what? Which post are you referring to?

Just called the council to see what's happening with my application several months old.
They say I'm second on the list and they'll have a review next month.
Exciting!<<<<<<< that one! lol

I re dug beds again, planted a box shape of red onion sets around roses for companion planting, planted King Edward Seed potatoes, weeded, noticed LOTS of bumblebees, dug a bit deeper into my compost and found some nicely rotted/crumbly texture stuff which I added to beds, checked pond

[Snadger]

Just a quick visit to lottie this evening after spending all day wiring in 10 downlights in my project house kitchen ( Really chuffed that everything worked when I switched them on!)

Put all my ternder seedlings and chitted tatties together on a table in the greenhouse and covered them with thin polystyrene sheeting (the kind used for laminate underlay) just to give them some protection against plummeting temperatures!

[jdlondon]

Thanks, 2S.

Made my smaller bed, filled it with ericaceous compost and transplanted the blueberries and the raspberry (cordoned off and mixed with some mpc - read it liked slightly acidic so fingers crossed) and put the blackberry in its own flower bucket since apparently they don't like sharing.

Again, good thing I tended to them today since I seem to be an over-watering maniac.

[Tripmeup]

Moved all of my manure to bottom.of garden to continue rotting..
Prepared my new bed which will be for onions this year..
Put up support canes for my raspberry canes..
Potted on my Tumbling Red and Pearl tomatoes...
Sowed some sweet pea seeds...

[keenbean]

Today I started digging over the veg patch which hasn't been in use for about 4 years. Hard work!!

[binley100]

Up the lottie first thing to take delivery of two big gazebos bought by the social committee for events , dig a spell of digging in the centenary garden to clear ready for bored beans to go in , went and had a nosey at a new plot holders plot , went to work .......

[StephenH]

Yesterday, I went to the Lotty and put plastic dome cloches over my pumpkins and some of my toms, and put soft vegetation over the remaining toms, to protect them from the predicted night frost. They're inside the polytunnel, but it doesn't have doors, so I thought I'd better provide extra protection. Also put dome cloches over the courgettes in the garden, and inverted jamjars over the garden toms. I know it's silly having tender plants already planted out, but I started them all rather early this year, because last year I was too late with my toms, and decided to risk it, keeping track of the weather forecasts so that I could provide protection when necessary. If the pumps or cours cop it, it's not too late to start again. I've got runner and French beans in pots on the windowsill, but they haven't germinated yet, and by the time they're big enough to plant out, the danger of frost should be well past.
Also watered everything inside the PT, because the council have finally turned the site tap on again. Some weeks ago, I improvised two rainwater-collection systems, one on either side of the pt, but they only work if there is actually some rain, and there hasn't been for ages. Latterly, I've been reduced to hauling seven gasllons of tap water over there on my bike trailer, in a large winemaker's fermenter. Thankfully, that'll no longer be necessary, though with the incipient hosepipe ban, I suppose I'll have to do a lot of tiresome trailing back and forth with the watering can.
Also on the lottie, my spuds, planted outside in front of the pt, have finally put in an appearance, as have the cabbages and sprouts alongside them in a seed bed. No sign yet of the carrots and parsnips, planted outside, by the side of the pt.
Off out in a minute, to spend the day with the local conservation volunteers, working on the group's 'Rough Patch', a small wildlife sanctuary.

[Two_Sheds]

- sowed more stuff: mostly flowers & chillies for school in the props
- planted up chitted French beans
- started the pumpkins off in heated props, 3" pots
- potted on tomatoes
- gathered more seaweed
- took even more cuttings from windowsill fuchsias which have gone mad this winter

[GardenFaery]

Added further compost to third bed, and re dug and raked over. Should have really moved that silver birch tree to a different spot now as some roots getting caught when I dig - could move to back of garden later on in Winter? One onion popped out onto top of drill - the birds, presumably, so tucked it in again up to its neck. Weeded and used recycled, Tesco pastries plastic container as a seed tray/come cloche to plant out Hollyhock seeds on first bed. I love the shape of Hollyhock seeds - like a seashell almost or a mermaid fan.
Debating what to plant on third bed, I have Potatoes and Onions around the roses, so would be good to plant flowers, perhaps interspersed with radishes - looking at companion planting now
Digging over the narrow ashy border by the concrete BBQ bit, I also just de-headed the hips and any woody bits, pruning the pink roses there slightly.
Raked over most of the moss and grass cuttings after mowing the front lawn. After fixing and topping up new compost to the raised bed, I planted and watered more Nasturtiums, Antirrhinums, more red onions (around the outside of the three bell cloches and leeks under the cloches.

[Bren In Pots]

Moved a flagstone out of the greenhouse so I can put another cucumber in the soil and have it growing through the seed tray racking for support.

Potted on chillis and aubergines, then put the canes in for my runner bean row.

[horticultural_hobbit]

Found keeled over baby marketmore cucumbers and okra in Wendy house and resown some more. Resown a hooligan pumpkin as I don't fancy the chances of the one that is in the Wendy house. Spotted a baby courgette with limp baby leaves, made note to check on it tomorow. Sown some more bonel, cylindra and boltardy beetroot as well as some more marigolds.

Not sure what I'm doing to the babies, get an inch high and keel over. Have covered baby aubs and curcubits as it got cold overnight yesterday.

[Snadger]

Made a start on my pantile raised bed. Got some news half way through it that I have to get rid of my cockerels and itknocked my end in and I didn't have the wherewithall to finish it.