What I did today 2012-2014

[Gearoid]

Potted on some pepper plants. Still debating whether or not to risk planting my tomatoes outside yet.

[Gearoid]

Also, sowed some late courgettes: Gold Rush, Nice de Rond and Patty Pan Sunburst.

[Florence Fennel]

Tied in the tomatoes, pleased that they're growing taller. Transplanted the bras again, even more have been chewed by the snugs, calabrese were just stalks. Rigged up supports for the lily pots, they are so healthy I can't wait for them to flower.

[GardenFaery]

Transplanted the bras again * sniggers* LOL

Weeded radishes bed and spaced out radishes again.
Bought two blue campanulas from Terry.
Dug and checked on Early potatoes but obviously TOO early as only two medium sized potatoes so far?!
Radishes not quite ready yet either so maybe another week?
Weeded around these as well.
Transplanted onions from raised bed to rest of onion patch
Bought mature Nasturtium from Garden Centre, even though I have also grown these from seed? lol
What I thought were weeds in first bed, either side of lavender and pinks, might well be mallow or stock that I planted previously (after checking back in Garden Diary) - have to check leaf pictures!
Added at least 4 gallons of conditioned water to the pond, mowed lawn, planted out rest of marigold seedlings, watered and fed pots and hanging baskets, weeded more and more and more…
Harvested Elderflowers for Fritters

[Two_Sheds]

- all day on lotty, weeding, watering & planting out sweetcorn & more French beans
- next day it was cold, wet & windy, so all the hardening off stuff stayed indoors
- dug out Magpie aquilegia & geraneum phaeum seedlings to plant up the lotty
- planted out white dahlias in their place
- lost the chillies that I potted up last week. So, no chillies this year
- pulled lots of flowering charlock at school, chopped it up with secateurs and left it as a surface mulch
- did the same with the weeds & dying wallflowers at home: chopped into small bits & left as mulch
- planted out the very-delayed limnanthes & French marigolds at school
- started off yet more peas. I lost a lot to the cold in April, and snails in May
- replenished the Seaweed & Comfrey Teas (10 bottles so far)
- did a torchlit snail hunt: found & salted 148 of the darn things

[rustylady]

Took little grandson to the lottie. Dug up and composted PSB, wiped snotty nose, weeded, wiped snotty nose, gave up and came home.

[Tripmeup]

Weeded my onion bed
Weeded my shallots and garlic bed
Earthed up spuds
Planted out courgette de nice, marrow bush baby and cucumber plants
Sowed some more radish, kohl rabbi and spinach seeds
Potted on psb seedlings

[eirish]

Grumbled about the weather forecast.

[Neil Spencer]

Well i dug up my first early potatoes (foremost) today A small colander's worth from a single plant - good for a meal for Mrs S and my 2 girls. I put them in early March. Most are flowering now.

Also made up 3 frames wooden with pipe hoops and netting to cover the brassicas. Red cabbage doing well. Planted out some green cabbage and calabrese. Lost 1st 2 calabrese to slugs. Lets see if they can negotiate this reasonably tight net.

Picked some lollow rosso too.

Started planting out tomatoes in the greenhouse and outdoors. Well it helps living in the heart of kent. Weather has been very warm.

[Feral007]

Doing nothing, it's raining, just nice steady easy rain. Woohoo! Haven't had rain for ages since the floods. I'm excited. The cabbages look like they are hearting up at last. The radish will go beserk, and I'm hoping the leeks will grow big enough to use now. Happy dance.

[susieq100]

Saturday morning. Fine misty rain, the sort that doesn't actually wet anything properly. Spent 3 hours at the plot clearing weeds, trimming back grass and nettles from around the 2nd plot. Moulded up potatoes on 2nd plot and weeded the onions on the 1st. I had to pick off a couple of seed heads from 1 or 2 onions. They are a decent size but the dry weather has made them think they are ready! No, not for a week or two yet I hope.

[adamhartree]

Not a lot could be done outside in this weather so desided to take a look round morrisons, brought 10 punnets of strawberrys ruduced from £4 down to 25p, bargain. Took them home and make lots of strawberry jam and also used some of them to add to the rhubarb syrup I had started for wine. Then made the strawberry and rhubarb wine and put it in the garage to ferment. Then desired to make a batch of marmalade before sittin down with a roast turkey dinner. Lovely. What more could you ask for in this weather.

[Snadger]

Just gpt back from allotment. Busy carbooting this morning but devoted this afternoon to allotment. First job was to strip enviromesh of my carrot bed and re-sow carrots again. I had initially sown four different types of carrot. All packets were in date and out of four packets............ four carrots germinated.
I can only put it down to being too cold,or slug annialation as they came up?

Re-raked the bed, hoed off the few weeds that had germinated and re-sowed FIVE packets of fresh seed Watered well and applied a liberal dressing of slug pellets then screwed down the enviromesh top again. Hopefully this time I wil have better luck. Bed is five foot wide byeighteen foot long so if they germinate and grow it should give me enough carrots to see me through until next May.
While I was at the car boot sale earlier i procured two pepper plants and two tomato plants to finish a row I already have in. The tomatoes were duly planted into there final position but ALL my peppers need to stay in there pots until they are big enough to plant in there final position.
Tidied ip the greenhouse bed where they are eventually to go anyway.

[GardenFaery]

Pruned out brambles around pond and clematis. Checked pond.
Planted out rocket, more hollyhocks, deadheaded Lilacs, weeded, pricked out and planted on seedlings, recycled old birthday card with dogs on, using as cute plant tags,
Added stuff to compost bin, scattered rest of stock, cornflower and mallow seedlings in rain over first two beds, watered seedlings in porch/greenhouse, replanted sweet peas into large pot with sticks.

[marchogaeth]

Oh dear - went to perform at a Jubilee Village Fete and bought six hot sweet chillies and six mixed tomatoe plants for £5. Spent an hour moving things round in the tunnel and my head trying to work out where they are all going to go and where the plants I now can't fit in will have to go outside - starting to feel like deck chairs on the Titanic.