What I did today 2012-2014

[Feral007]

Spent all morning and most of the afternoon playing annoy-the-mole. My veg beds are little more than backfilled coffins dug out of the blue clay which after three seasons now has something in it that resembles soil. With worms. And now a mole.
Barsteward has uprooted beans, aubergines, melons and two rows of radiccio. It has tunnelled through seven beds without leaving a single hill, just loads of cavities...
What is the point of befriending feral cats if they just sit around all day?
And relax....

Sounds like something smaller but equally as destructive as my wombats.

I'm going out to whippersnip some of the overgrowth if it doesn't start raining soon - sun lasts a bout 5-10 mins here atm. Cabbages look like they are hearting up at last - the ones that don't resemble swiss cheese that is.
The leek is still there but not doing much.........can't help thinking if there was just an hour or two of sun that it would shoot up and I could chop it up and chuck it in the pot for soup!

[Snadger]

Planted the last seven of my potted leeks in a small pocket i had dug for them. Noted that my second batch of carrots had not germinated either.Harvested some qyute presentable garlic!Did a bit more weeding.

[redser]

I did nothing (in the garden) over the weekend since it rained and rained and rained.....

It doesn't look like a tomato year, but the tayberries are coming on.

Funny you should say that about tayberries, I planted a bare root plant last autumn and wasn't expecting to get anything until 2013. But it's growing like mad and has flower buds forming.

[Currysniffa]

Today I cut the grass on all the main paths at the allotment I to this every 2 weeks. Than because I suffer from hayfever I cut the lawns at home front and back too. This way I'll only have streaming eyes tomorrow. Also watered the tomatoes in allotment greenhouse and feed a few the have first trusses on.

Edit: Weeded potato patch. Think there's more weeds then potatoes this year. My spuds have been a disaster tbh.

[kentishgal]

No actual gardening today...but I did come back from the garden centre with 2 blueberries, a blackcurrant, some bedding plants (petunias and snapdragons) and a little Hebe Ive been wanting for ages!!

[binley100]

In the Centenary Garden I weeded the root bed and planted out di choggia, white and yellow beetroot . Also chuked in a load of onion sets that were donated .
Helped some friends put up a ridiculously tall blowaway gh (big circular affair)
My plot, took out last of the overwintering, bolting japanese onions , weeded then planted in some toms. Grieved over the disappeared courgettes (3 plants gone no glut for me this year then ) and squashes (another 3 plants) .....gave the outside under cloche melons a severe talking too as they look like they can't be @rsed......likewise the cucs......received a gift of some radish from my neighbour which prompted me to think 'how the hell can I expect to grow melons when I can't even grow radish ' .........sowed some radish seed just in case
At home, played musical plants with some toms and stuck a load of armpits in water......

[PyreneesPlot]

Cleared weeds from bed that had the compost bins on it last year and cursed my laziness for trying to compost bindweed. I know... Planted out celery, fennel, beetroot in the cleared bed.
Shouted at the kittens who climbed onto the anti-slug seedling table and pulled a load of trays off. And then played with them in the debris as they are 7 weeks old and heaps of fun.
Planted ot tomato armpits that were only 'pitted' 10 days ago but already had roots coming out the bottom of the pot.
Tried to find a bit of ground for turnips that didn't have a mole tunnel underneath. Put off planting out 200 leeks for another day.

[Niall]

I did a 12 hour shift so not much time for the garden... I came home though and took some pictures and updated my blog with some progress:

Niall's Garden

I put a picture of my first aubergine to grow on there, my tomatoes and rhubarb

[VirginVegGrower]

Today I cut the grass on all the main paths at the allotment I to this every 2 weeks. Than because I suffer from hayfever I cut the lawns at home front and back too. This way I'll only have streaming eyes tomorrow. Also watered the tomatoes in allotment greenhouse and feed a few the have first trusses on.

Edit: Weeded potato patch. Think there's more weeds then potatoes this year. My spuds have been a disaster tbh.

Mine too CS - take heart!
I did nothing today as I looked out and it was grey, cold and started raining AGAIN! But I thought about it for a minute or so

[Feral007]

Well I didn't get the whippersnipping done as I had to go collect my daughters laptop from the repair shop. Made a lovely quiche with asparagus (from the shop) and now we all want to grow huge amounts of asparagus!
Watered my native seedling plants and told them to hold on a bit longer till I can get the new electric fence sorted to keep the horses from making lunch of them. Won't make a difference to the wombat but there's not much you can do to deter them.
Grey and cold again today. Can't believe this weather. Need to uncover the new fruit trees before I go into town. Just trying to let them settle in before they get frosted big time.

[Snadger]

Made a start on weeding herb wheel and paths.............

Wish my veg would grow as well as the weeds...................

Harvested a nice clean spring cabbage.

[kentishgal]

Planted out my new blackcurrant. Potted up 2 blueberries, 2 tomatoes, some swiss chard, kale and artichoke. Replaced the sprout seedling that wasnt growing with a spare one I had (also wondered why nothing seems to want to grow in a little ft square section of the bed...is it haunted??).
Put together my greenhouse shelves which fit nicely along a wall and gives me somewhere for my fuschia, buddleia and veggie seedlings to go. Used some fencing pins to make string supports on my fence panels in case the autmun raspberries and blackberry need extra support.
Oh, and not veggie related....potted up a Hebe, also the only 2 marigolds I managed to grow from seed and made a drainpipe trellis out of plastic mesh for the ipomoea I bought (I just loved the almost black leaves!).

[Snadger]

Another exciting evening weeding................. Lifted some more garlic and planted a few onion plants in spaces where others had died off.

[VirginVegGrower]

Watered in the poly and greenhouse, armpitted and tied up the tomatoes. Chopped all bolted onions and packed into freezer. Now watching yet more rain.

[binley100]

took out finished with forget-me-nots, weeded the back garden. weeded the front garden. Took a hooge bag of lawn clippings up the lottie .......mulched various beds (just in case this drought carries on ) .started weeding the rhubarb patch ........rain stopped play again........