What I did today 2012-2014

[Pa Snips]

Put my name down on an allotment waiting list.

Oookay, this has officially become a very addictive pastime.

[horticultural_hobbit]

Sunk my spuds! Maris piper and king eds.

Danced up and down on the cabbage patch. What a lovely workout.

Sunk but didn't fill slug traps.

Potted on half the cabbages.

[Jelliebabe]

I finished digging up the weeds at the front of the lottie (the beanery) the bindweed has started up already but much less of it than last year! So well worth the three digs we did last year! Also put more broad bean seeds in... Hope they come up.

Started off some rhubarb wine and vodka. I've used up what was in the freezer and a kind friend at the lottie had some ready.. I say ready, the stalks were as thick as a todlers arm! Okay for wine tho! I do have to give her some of it though! A fair exchange

[Feral007]

Off work for a week with a shocking back and bored to tears. So have wandered out to the deck and watched the cabbage moths fluttering about the cabbages and caulli's. Dashed things! And drooled over seeds for spring online.

[Bren In Pots]

I planted out my parsnip loo rolls I like to get them in as soon I see a bit of green showing.

[susieq100]

Proper April day yesterday - sunshine followed by a downpour and then sun again, then rain and so on. Forked over the raised beds in the garden - my overwintering caulis have curds (Yippee!), half emptied the one dalek and spread the contents on the flower beds. Planted out some bargain aubretia from the local garden centre's "reduced table", potted on some tomatoes and cucumbers.

[Loudbarker1]

free currents from one of the mags arrived yesterday so got up early to pot them. They are a red current (jonkheer van tets) and a black current (tatiana). couldn't tell which was the red and which the black without the labels. Tehy loked pretty dried out so dumped in a watering can overnight when I got home at 10pm.

Forgot to put the black plastic over the new potatos, and of course there was a frost last night. Bother.

[Snadger]

Potted on my long red firenze onions into modules and tray. Weeded my central path.

[stuart65]

First post on the forum so hello to all.

Spent a pleasant morning in the sunshine sowing beetroot, sweetcorn, fennel, leeks, courgettes etc.

Then decided to go down to the new allotment to finish clearing plot and raking over, put up bean supports before a sky you would associate with the plagues of Egypt darkened the previously sunny Midlands.

Decided to stay and finish supports until hail stones began to fall on my head, headed back home and did some weeding around the roses once rain/hail had passed over.

[Gearoid]

Sowed some more tumbling tomatoes (red and yellow ones), hope it's not too late!

Potted up a nice big lemon scented thyme that I got from the B&Q clearance section for £1.

[ladylottie]

Hi Stuart65 and welcome to the vine! Sounds as if you've had a good day at the lottie.
Pop where you live on your profile (so it shows under location on the top right) then we all know how best to help.

Today I hoed round everywhere on both plots - amazing how quickly the weed seedlings show up. Then I watered all the plants in the glass shed.
Removed all the old strawberry runners and dug over a patch of ground. Planted the best seven of the plants next to the new strawberry bed I set up the other day.
Had just finished that when we had an amazing downpour of lashing rain and hail. I had to run for the shed and had to stay there for ages until it went past.
I was going to sow another row of beetroot but the rain stopped me from doing that. Maybe tomorrow.

[hamesy]

Welcome to the forum Stuart.

I went down after work for an hour to earth up the taters and do some weeding.

[supasick]

15ft x 15ft plot is ready to be rotavated, 6ft x 15ft plot also ready to rotavate. Small plot was waist high in brambles, weeds, rubbish ect ect so major achievemant! Semi built one compost bay ie post concreted in and has one concrete panel in on either side. Only 4 more to put in and its finished! then two more bays to build!! Dug out the onions/leeks that we discovered growing in the big plot. Ended up with 11 of them! Burnt off the brambles we found. Exhausted.com!

[binley100]

Spent the morning reorganising and sorting out my brassicas ........found the slimy little culprit that's been enjoying them . Spent a few houras at work ....This evening put up a support to drape fleece over in the gh to protect stuff while I'm in foreign parts ......Was going to weed the garden but somebody turned off the light ........

[stuart65]

Thanks for the welcome ladylottie and hamesy.

Have added location, thanks for the tip. Hopefully be able to get out tomorrow in the morning, weather for the afternoon looks terrible.