What I did today 2012-2014

[VirginVegGrower]

Riddled out all the ready compost bin, as Mr VVG has been chucking stuff in it instead of the far one. Got a load for the lotty, so am pleased all that effort has been rewarded. Just looked at myself in the mirror and I look like I've been in the compost Going to have a sarnie, then strim the woodland edges. Am leaving them as a mulch, ska TwoSheds. Then I am off on cardboard scrounge to Halfords

[Kaiya]

I'm trying to make my new motto 'Do it now!' - unfortunately up until this point it's been 'Do it later...' So finally today I took a barrowload of stinking grass clippings and old potato compost to the lottie for the daleks, and planted overwintering onions, garlic and elephant garlic, and planted yet another rhubarb crown (the previous ones having died). Plus I collected some of my dalek contents to test for aminopyralid, which I like to do occasionally, and have sown some Aquadulce in it. Lastly I liberally sprinkled the whole plot with slug bait as I read now is about the time they start reproducing, plus I have some overwintering brassicas going out next weekend.

I brought a tiny crystal lemon cuke, two small leeks and two giant beetroots back with me - now just to find a recipe for beetroot, leek and cucumber...

[traceys plot]

Had some lovely big parsnips out of the garden, roasted in o oil and mustard, more runner beans. cleaned out the greenhouse of finished cuc vines, just peppers lft in there now. Cleaned out chooks and got pecked

[Feral007]

Mowed a lot. And the mower didn't die this time! Finished fixing the chook house door and put the new girls in. Got horse in and out of the float.

[VirginVegGrower]

Raked for England AGAIN. More leaves, more strimming, more mulching. Six solid hours in the garden and by tomorrow it'll be covered again. Eloise Chuckface degrubbed the newly mulched fruit trees, spreading it everywhere, so I had to pick it all up and put it back. Cleared half of the woodland edge, still have half to go Never did get up to the lotty - my plan Always tomorrow

[veggiechicken]

Moved squashes in pots into the greenhouse. Shooed the robin out. Put green tomatoes to ripen in modular trays. Picked the last of the teeny grapes in the greenhouse. Shooed the robin out again.
Went to Garden Centre and knocked down the price of a new but ever so slightly rusty wheelbarrow. Took more tomatoes out of the other greenhouse. Shooed the robin out again before shutting it up for the night.
He's such a cheeky little fella. Hops into the kitchen and picks up the crumbs under the table too.

[VirginVegGrower]

Moved squashes in pots into the greenhouse. Shooed the robin out. Put green tomatoes to ripen in modular trays. Picked the last of the teeny grapes in the greenhouse. Shooed the robin out again.
Went to Garden Centre and knocked down the price of a new but ever so slightly rusty wheelbarrow. Took more tomatoes out of the other greenhouse. Shooed the robin out again before shutting it up for the night.
He's such a cheeky little fella. Hops into the kitchen and picks up the crumbs under the table too.

I love them. Tiny but feisty. The gardener's friend

[veggiechicken]

I love them. Tiny but feisty. The gardener's friend

Bit like me then
Yesterday, I also connected all the bits of my trampoline raised bed - the only way in is limboing under Wish I could fly!!

[Loudbarker1]

Decided I could do some gardening over the weekend after a 6 week enforced absence.

Cleared courgettes, tomaos, cucumbers and composted. Spread the growbag contents over one of my veg beds as mulch with a few chicken manure pellets to reinvigorate.

Pruned tayberry.

Generally clear up garden including removal of decaying cabbage leaves and the like. Storing bamboos in dry place and placing cloche over ground where overwintering lettuce will go.

Picked lettuce, first savoy cabbage and (probably) last few runner beans (had these for tea), and admired swedes and turnips.

Mowed lawn (last time this year I hope)

[Jelliebabe]

Prepped another billion frenchies and runners for the freezer - pheweeeeee! I dont think we will have to buy ANY this next year (and the frenchies are still flowering!)

[Two_Sheds]

- picked (hopefully) the last kilo of rasps today
- made raspberry wine & raspberry jam
- got lucky in Tesco, and turned £20 of "finest" meat (reduced to £8) into 18 frozen dinners, using lotty veg along the way.
- made a vat of Lotty Stew for the freezer too, with chard in it (don't tell Himself)
- dug couch grass out of a raised bed (again)
- got 2 trays of Tesco garlic planted
- and 2 bags of onion sets

[hamamelis]

Grabbed the chance while it's forecast dry for the day, and painted most of the shed. Still need to do the last side, but I'm waiting for the grape on that side to go properly dormant, so I can prune it first.

[PyreneesPlot]

Mulched the raspberries with leaf mold as we've had rain. Cleared the leaf bin ready for this years onslaught from the wood next door. Don't know why I don't just go and scrape it up from in there!
Forked over the melon patch - long died down - and topped with some compost ready for garlic.
Sowed broad beans and peas (Feltham's First).
Tidied up the lemon grass and fatalii chillies (both in pots) ready for bringing in to the living room for the winter.
Forked most of the veg bed edges again to try and get the mole to s*d off somewhere else.
Sowed aliske clover on next years leek bed - tomatoes are germinating where I spread compost so I guess its still warm enough (21 today, but 6 over night).

[VirginVegGrower]

Planted garlic, shallots and onions on the lotty. Weeded the saffron bed and mulched it. Mr VVG did some path weeding and wood chipping. Mulched the rhubarb bed. Pegged a wineberry branch down in order to try and make another one. Fingers crossed.

[MartinRSharpe]

Got home from work, wished it would stop raining and wondered where on earth the stuff I ordered from T&M for delivery late Sept\early Oct is.

Then found some photos on my PC from Epcot last year (they have big greenhouses with lots of experiments in how to grow stuff etc) and started wondering how many of their ideas I could rip off next year.