What I did today 2012-2014

[horticultural_hobbit]

Discovered a bucket full of HT roses and a freebie minnow bulbs in the hall way having come home post gallivanting. Got ticked off by Ma for buying them....

[Marcher]

Planted 14 bare root roses, gave two to a neighbour and kept two until I figure out where they'll go. Trimmed ivy in the hedge too.

[Loudbarker1]

Checked broad beans - they're germinating! And watered them too. They will probably be planted out next weekend (or the one after......)

Ordered free (apart from £5 postage) Pink Blue Berry and sucumbed to 3 for 2 offer on Blackcurrent Ebony from the mag (and they were a pretty reasonable £8 each for 2 as well compared with the same merchant's price of £21 for 3.)

LB

[Snadger]

Sorted out which shallots hadn't rotted and burned the ones that had in the woodburner. Toying with the idea of planting them in trays now rather than february next year? I've been busy elsewhere lately but can devote a full day to the allotment on Sunday so will hopefully get a bit of tidying up done.

[horticultural_hobbit]

Planted out roses

Harry wheatcroft, silver jubilee, blue moon, pascalli, peace, double delight, Christian Dior, ruby wedding, lovers delight and Dutch gold.

As well as plugged in some baby leeks.

[Paulieb]

Harvested a load of chillis and sweet peppers. Sowed some Meteor peas which are currently in the greenhouse. Got a few tubs of them outside so may compare the difference.

Thinking about ordering some more seed spuds but can't decide on types. Order a collection from T&M last week which were really cheap but might get some from JBA for a few of a few different types. But constantly thinking I don't need more than the 160 seed pots I've already ordered, nor have I room for them!!!!

[Tripmeup]

Moved some raspberries
Transplanted some spring onions into greenhouse and outside
Moved coriander pots inside
Sowed some flower bulbs

[Feral007]

Made many raised beds today. One between the peach/nectarine trees and one of the apple trees and put in 7 strawberries.

Then made another and put in 8 leeks.

Another with a lavendar and a rosemary plant.

Same again on the other side, and a lavendar at the end of the broadbeans.

Dug up the Youngberry, the one summer fruiting raspberry that lives, and the one that looks dead. Put them into a bed. Then discovered that 2 of the blackberries that looked dead had some low leaves, so put them in as well.

Made another berry bed, to put in the 2 autumn fruiting raspberries bought this week, and found that I could actually get 8 plants out of the two containers! Woohoo!

Then put in wormwood and flowering quince.

Didn't plant the passionfruit as I'm not sure of the right spot just yet.
Nor the 3 tomato plants, as I don't have their bubblewrap pyjamas ready.

Son finished putting the shadecloth along the back of the herb and vege garden and it's looking good!

[Florence Fennel]

Thought about taking the bean wigwam down, harvesting the rest of the carrots and planting out more garlic. You know what thought did don't you? Followed a rag cart, thought it was a funeral. It was just too cold, so I stayed inside.

[Currysniffa]

Today I dug a 1x1' deep trench the full length of my new plot. I'm going to be edging the plot down one side (grass path side) with 3x2 slabs. Heavy work but I think it will be worth it as I can bring the level of the plot up a bit. Also moved a round 20 3x2's from old plot. I think I've earned this can of larger

[binley100]

Went out for lunch so only managed a quick shufti round the lottie..inspected OH's handiwork in the shed .....picked some chillies.......took off some runners to dry .......fetched a barrowload of bark chippings .......

[Tripmeup]

Took down all my cane wigwams and cleared away bean and pea plants..
Sowed my Broad Beans - Bunyards Exhibition ( free with mag)
Added very well rotted manure to some empty beds
Cleared away some finished tom plants
Brought one chilli plant inside but left rest in greenhouse..

[Loudbarker1]

Away for most of the weekend, but got back at Sunday lunchtime, leaving time for:

1) a rush to the garden centre to buy compost, erincacious compost, pea seeds and sweetpea seeds.

2) Triming of blackcurrent plant potted last week and planting of clippings into smaller post in hopes that I will have two more baby Ben Saraks next year;

3) sowing of peas indoors: meteor (from mag - 14 seeds) Telephone, Champion of England and (purchased from the garden centre) Twinkle. Once germinated all of these will be transplanted to a cold house for overwintering and (I hope) a nice harvest of peas in May and June. I plantedabout 160 seeds (14 meteor, 119 twinkle, 35 Champion of England and 35 Telephone. I don't thik that's enough so will get some more meteor seeds, and pssibly some Feltham first as well.

4) everyone else seemed to be doing it this weekend - I too took down the runnerbean wigwam - plants on compost heap, hazel rods under cover.

[WillyNelson]

I finally got the last piece of glass in my greenhouse yesterday - the little triangular piece above the door that was left off the order. Though my attempts to cut it from a full size piece left a lot to be desired.

Turned over the new raspberry bed that I de-turfed 2 weeks ago and gave it a bit of manure on top. The rasps will have to go in next weekend.

Spread about 8 barrow loads of manure on to what will be next year's potato bed. There was the remains of the communal muck pile when I got to the site yesterday, rare as it's usually all gone very quickly, no I took the chance and got what I could. It didn't look like much was left but I got maybe a 4" coveing on the whole bed, which should keep the weeds down and give the spuds a good feed.

I also cut down my 2 surviving chillis and potted them up for overwintering. Shall see how they do with a little head start.

Not a bad hour and a half's work.

[Feral007]

I came home from work and it was still light and warm so I watered the back garden, and then the side garden, and planted some seeds in that one and watered them in, then I watered the front garden and son found the first snowpeas!

Can't wait till work is over and I can get the next garden started! Woohoo!