What I did today 2012-2014

[CimaDirapa]

In the germinator today:

Tom Tigrela
Tom Vilma
Tom Lucato
Onion Walla Walla
Sweet Red Pepper (Dwarf)

Took a tour of the lottie, I actually have ready to pick PSB!, not a lot but some.
The 9 star broccoli look miserable, took the rest of the collards to the hens as it is simply too tough even after cooking. 2012 can't say I missed that year.

[Likac66]

Been back to the lottie this afternoon. Managed to dig out a lot of dandelions and other weeds over the best beds ready to be rotavated next week. Also managed to bag up some of the rubbish - including plastic bottles, a freezer tray(!) and a decomposing woolly jumper. Took the weeds and the rubbish to the tip. Lottie definitely looking a bit happier.

Met another neighbour at the allotments - he has the one opposite. Very friendly guy, happy to chat and talk to my daughter as well. He said the ground in our part of the site is really good. I took some metal posts and things I found on the plot down to the scrap metal pile we have on the site. I was told I could help myself to anything on there I wanted, just to give a donation to the charity jar. On the top was a wheelbarrow. I took it off to look at it and apart from some rust at the seams it looks in pretty good nick. I guess it would possibly fall through if you put something heavy in it but it looks fine for light work so my daughter and I liberated it.

[Doive]

Took early dwarf peas out of the incubator and onto a cool windowsill, to prevent them getting too leggy.
Planted up half a dozen tree cabbage and sutherland kale in fibre pots.
Checked onion sets and garlic, starting to produce green shoots.
Checked potatoes, most setting shoots.
Some millet seedlings harvested and fed to hungry gerbils!

[Rhona]

Yesterday... dug up a few celeriac and leeks
Fiddled around allotment for a bit, not achieving much but let children tear around getting muddy
Sowed chillies, early aubergines, celeriac
Planned a few beds, got excited about seeing the wild garlic pushing through

[Paulieb]

Chucked some chillis/sweet peppers in to go on in the propagator on the window sill. Not sure that'll be warm enough (though I have already germinated aubs and toms there), so will break out the electric prop on Weds, give it a clean, and load it up.

Also sowed first major batch of toms, a groundcherry, tomatillo, and a watermelon (getting a v. early start).

Most of this can go in my 'now' heated GH. Fired up the heater and with the thermostat it should be relatively hassle free to run, and relatively efficient too. On Saturday night the outside temp was -2c and inside only went down to 7c.

Also bought 2 min/max thermometers from Lidl on Saturday - so far so good.

[Feral007]

Couldn't help myself, bought some seedlings. Broccoli, red cabbage and some lawn chamomile. All planted. They and the tomato and grape vines are all seaweed watered in.

Picked some chard and a zuchinni to put in with dinner.

Oh and pulled two weeds out.

[kathycam]

Last week I've been working a lot on the new plot. Dug and cleared soil in old greenhouse base and turned into blueberry bed. Added lots of coffee grings and pine needles to make it acidic. Planted blueberries, pinkberries, honeyberries, red currants and Chilian guava in it.

Laid more cardboard down. Cleared dead oxeye daisies (its everywhere). Cleared dead brassicas, sunflowers and other dead plants. Picked up glass and other junk. Had a massive bonfire with everything cleared.

This week the plan is to make a nursey bed in the other old greenhouse base, add canes given to me by friend. Collect up the bonfire ash. Finish laying cardboard. Clear land and build polytunnel. Lay the paving slab path. Buy cheap fruit trees from Aldi and plant them. Oh and if we get chance the pond still needs to go in!

[Feral007]

Right, well you've made me feel lazy Kathycam!

Seedlings planted here. And 46 plants ordered..............wonder if son wants to help dig the holes for them.....

[kathycam]

I'm just on a mission to get my plot ready for the growing season. Seems so much to do still, but cleared a lot now.

[Feral007]

There's always a mission or two when there's plants and dirt involved

[marcofez]

Found a source of horse manure for the lottie which I will collect tomorrow.
Collected some bags and had a scout round lottie to see what jobs need doing. The list is long!!!!!!........ gulp!!!!

[bramble]

Sowed some more tomato and chilli seeds today. Spent a gppd while sieving compost to make sure there were no lumps in it.
Found a box of tomato seed packets that I forgot I had. They were sent to me on a seed swop site in 2007. I have sowed 5 of each of these and will wait and see.
Not overly hopeful however.

[alex-adam]

Putting a coat of wood preservative on my home-made growbag frames, and knocked up a couple of potting trays from scrap wood for use in our community garden polytunnel.

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[hawthorns]

cut down the autumn raspberries. turned half of the compost bin into the next 1. planted over wintered onions from cold frame into gaps in onion bed.

[Doive]

Continued building the veggie frames today despite the snow! Bit more to do to make them structurally sound, hopefully the netting will arrive later in the week. Had a huge slug and caterpillar problem last year, so this perhaps will prevent it...

Potato progress checked as well, doing ok but not as well as I'd hoped. Onions setting nicely.