What I did today 2012-2014

[Florence Fennel]

Gave the remaining bras' some sulphate of ammonia and then mulched with the grass clippings. Deflowered the gone to seed calabrese. Planted 27 leeks, loads more to go in, but waiting for the potatoes to come out. Half cleared the pea bed when rain stopped play.

[Snadger]

Pulled up a load of leeks that had went to seed prematurely nad planted area with a load of leeks that hopefully won't go to seed prematurely.
Weeded the greenhouse beds and sideshooted the toms.

Harvested 5 gherkins. Harvested some Duke of York spuds. Ate loads of strawberries,raspberries and blackcurrants along with a few red and white currants.

Checked that new chooks are settling in ok and gave them some greens to munch on.

[binley100]

Sunday ........burned the blighted tattie tops and hedge clippings, uncovered some no dig tatties . Wow
Went to a bbq ......
Monday .......shot blasted the cooker , popped to lottie and found a courgette (along with some other stuff)
Today .......decluttered and cleaned kitchen cupboards , went to social committee meeting

[Acanthus]

Ate big baked Desiree spuds for lunch with broadies and French beans, which have all done well. Some bean plants killed though, something nipped them off at the bottom of the stem...? Snails? Tied up tomatoes, turfed a couple out which had gone yellow. Tied up cucs and ate first little pic olino- delicious. Made 4 kilos of blackcurrant jam and froze 4 bags of French beans.went on snail hunt with torch but only found a few.

[slug_slayer]

Looked in disbelief as I pulled up the Garlic. Half of the bulbs were smaller than the cloves I planted. A load of garlic bulbis I threw around the garden last year were bigger.
Instead of grower awards, I think I should be nominated for shrinker of the year.

[Jamesy_uk]

Took my Son with me to allotment and got a bit more dug over before he proclaimed 'Tired now' then sat down on the soil muttering 'bedtime' and laying his head on my welly lol.
Second bed is about 1/4 done now but the rain after the sunny weather has started some grass growing so I will have to nip that in the bud.

[Uber-Uncool]

Made 13 jars of red grape and strawberry jam.

[Two_Sheds]

spent the whole day tidying the front garden: chopping everything up & leaving on the soil as a mulch

[Florence Fennel]

Planted some more leeks. Weeded and generally cleared out my perennial flower bed. Lots of bare soil now and it's only August. At least I got all the grass out.

[binley100]

Foraged in my friends fruit cage, took some photos around the site for a competition for our open day, weeded the root bed in the centenary garden , fed my toms and peppers etc, foraged around the lanes on the site, made up ginger beer......

[Florence Fennel]

Leek bed all planted up. Raised beds weeded, desnugged and most of the bras' thrown for compost. I've left 4 cabbages to see if they'll heart up. Played with hosepipe at last.

[StephenH]

Photos from my allotment, Wednesday. These are all inside the polytunnel, which is why the pumpkins are ripening so early. The toms are also starting to ripen. No sign of blight yet, thankfully.

Allotment Aug 12 pictures by StephenHorsfall - Photobucket

[horticultural_hobbit]

Currying black eyed peas with home made onions and garlic.

[Florence Fennel]

As the cunning greasy pole plan didn't work against the Ninja snugs, last night I stood the containers with the young (but a big chewed) bras' on upturned buckets on the patio, sprinkled a few smarties around and this morning, no snug damage, but loads of dead bodies One snail had survived (he probably climbed whilst humming the Mission Impossible theme tune), but then he was propelled into the air and crashed into the side of the shed. Shame

[Florence Fennel]

Sowed more seeds for the snugs. Salad, turnip, kale nero and coriander. Took the mildewed leaves from the courgettes. Sowed more basil inside.