What I did today 2012-2014

[GSQ281061]

Today I planned out courgettes, peas and beetroot! Dismantled my 6x4 greenhouse at home and transported it up to the allotment, still got all the glass to take up during the week. Started at 10am just finished at 8.30pm. A good days work, fantastic what's little sunshine does!!

[supasick]

finished digging over the plot, remarked out my beds and started planting! First to go in was little gem seedlings (lots of!), my courgette plant, a cucumber plant, radish seedlings and sowed parsnip inbetween them. I then created some bird scarers by tying strips of plastic onto canes. I also slug pelleted round my beds cos there are millions of snails round here!

[Pa Snips]

Bought another sixteen Morrisons' flower buckets (2" taller and 1" wider than the last lot - bargain).
Bought two more strawberry planters from B&Q (30kg quality compost for £4.00 - bargain).
Potted on three sweet pepper plants and cast them out to them greenhouse.

[Florence Fennel]

Yesterday afternoon put a couple of dozen tomatoes into final buckets and (fingers crossed for no frost) put them outside. There is just no more room to keep them in the stayput.

[Peas'n'Kews]

Spent the day reading VC's "I bought a wood!" thread for the 2nd day, but also did a little hoe-ing.

The OH says I am a champian hoe-er.......

[Loudbarker1]

Cold weekend.

Cut nettles (with lawnmower) from parsonage field behind house and used them to mulch/earth up new potatos (Arran Pilot, Sharpes' Express adn Red Duke of York).

Weeded under fleece on lettuce and beetroot (both looking better since fleeced: looks as if it was birds that were chompng them) and between leeks, brassicas, carrots and parsnips.

Bamboos laid across leeks did not prevent neighbour's cats digging and sh*tt*ng, so laid a few more. A good thing about the rain is that it kept the cats off.

Maris Piper spuds in bags have poked above the surface.

Cleared other nettles from place fr flowers and finally trasnplanted cornflowers, nasteriums and pot marigolds, abouy 2 weeks behind time.

Watered soft fruit: tayberry plant looks as if there will be a bumper harvest, and red and pink currents will produce some too.

I have my tomato in mother's hot house : discovered aphids infesting them so sprayed with Bug away (which explains very odd growth) also moved them to cooler house to start hardening off. Cucumbers will need to move out too.

French beans planted two weeks ago germinating nicely: these are in plugs (not ideal: I usually use loo rolls for longer root run) so moved them to cool house, again to start hardening off and aim to plant out next weekend. These will be the first lot of three planted about 4 weeks apart.

Courgettes planted out 2 weeks ago look happy under their cloche. When the french beans go out the cloches will go to the beans.

Sowed a few seeds of white sprouting brocoli and early purple sprouting brocoli and also a few seeds of swedes joan and marian (there last to compare and contrast), all to be interplanted after the first lot of broad beans have been removed. I may be a bit early here with the brassicas: first lot of broad beans are just setting pods now so I hope to harvest in 2 weeks and remove the plants 2 or three weeks after that. Am less worried about the brocs, but will the swedes wait that long in loo rolls? Second lot of broad beans flowering nicely now. They are all outdoors so they don't start growingtoo fast. Plan is to sow more early PSB and late PSB and more swede (jn to go in as soon as they are removed in (say) 1st week of July.

Picked and podded mother's indoor broad beans for her and helped eat them with roast beef lunch and all family. First of the year - delicious despite what master loudbarker (2) and miss loudbarker (4) said. Also burgled lettuce as a fee.

Yellow courgettes planted (?) 3 weeks ago germinated: 100% successs with gold rush and 66% success with soleil. Curious. I will plant the best gold rush and compare with the soliel planted out a few weeks ago.

I htoungt I did less than this!

What I didn't do:
plant on sweet peas
sow more lettuce, carrots, radish, beetroot,
enough weeding/clearing
transplant spare toms into bigger pots
get bell cloche(s) to cover pumpkins
initiate garden for new house
plant out sping onions
cover cabbage/cauliflower, calebrase/redcabbage against cabbage white, but I did inspect for eggs. There are one or two cabbage white butterflies about. It would probabyl be a good idea to barracade the carrots and leeks agianst fly and moth as well.

[Nes]

Wow, LB, that's busy!
I set up more poles for the beans, and planted out more runners and french (trionfo violetto - v. good, stay nice and un-stringy even when left on plant over weeks holiday last year). Netted a brassica bed with not quite enough netting - had to patch the last bit with some chicken wire. Will invest in a bit more netting next year. Picked rhubarb, and had to carry daughter back to car at this point, as she'd got soaked filling her watering can from the trough. The pleasures of being 2!

[Normans Mum]

Yesterday I put out my courgettes which were threatening to overtake the cold frame, I fed all my fruit bushes and trees. Planted some peas out, sowed some beetroot and spinach. Watered everything in the greenhouse. Got OH to put up cloches and set some stone pavers for bench. Made lovely cup of tea and both sat out on said bench to enjoy sunshine. Ah, bliss....... : )

[Cue the Toms]

Today I had a good tidy up... Turned over some more soil to plant seedlings out once ready
Sowed Spring onion seeds
Sowed leeks
Cut back brambles and weeds from the top of the garden
Topped up slug pellets around beds and pots
Sat back with a nice cup of tea and admired my hard work

Over the weekend I built a small poly tunnel for seedlings and a semi cloche/poly tunnel for the toms, strawberries and young pumpkin plants

Chris

[traceys plot]

Made yet another herb garden (love my herbs), planted radish, carrot, spring onions. took cuttings from a well est chilli see if they grow? dehydrated big parsley bush and saved in large jam jar. Watered the greenhouse, did a bit of weeding just got to make tea now !!!

[Andromeda]

Sowed more cabbage (for harvest around November)
Sowed Fennel
Sowed spring onions
Pricked out and potted on lettuce and more lettuce...and even more lettuce (4 different types, 62 plants in total - I may well be home hunting for them!)
Sowed more carrots
Had a heated discussion about the 2 empty beds on my allotment - just because they're empty now, doesn't mean they're going to stay that way!

[Florence Fennel]

Just been and fed the newly potted on toms with comfrey tea. Hope the weather stays good for the ones I've put outside. Like you tracey, off to make something to eat and then outside again.

[Bren In Pots]

Sat outside in the sunshine sowing the holes up in my brassica netting.

[VirginVegGrower]

Got sunburnt putting up the frame for the tunnel. Mr VVG very red too

[bethduckie]

Not a lot today. Got a text from my lottie neighbours saying they had strimmed my grass as it was too long to get the mower through and I'd asked to borrow their strimmer. How kind! So I went and raked that up, did a bit of edge trimming and sowed some spring onions. Then went to B and Q and bought some likely looking cukes and toms- far better than the disasters they were selling last week!