What I did today 2012-2014

[Tripmeup]

Planted 7 trees in front garden that we received as a gift... Good strong ones and quite tall.. I must add the names here..

Sowed some more chillis including Habanero and also some sweet peppers, California Wonder....
Sowed some more tomatoes including Latah, Gardener's Delight, Roma, Tamina, Jubilee, Rio Grande and Black Russian

[Doive]

A quick summary of the last four days... I hope a summary is allowed

Wednesday - planted sixty raspberry canes, eight tonnes of topsoil delivered so shifted two tonnes of that.

Thursday - shifted four more tonnes of topsoil. Moved baby peas out to start hardening them off.

Friday - shifted final two tonnes of topsoil. Had a sit down and a cuppa. Gazed with quiet satisfaction at the now filled raised beds. Quickly changed when I remembered all the planting I now need to do!

Today - wired the shed for a new outside light to make evening work on the veggie beds easier. Checked some of the indoor seedlings for signs of growth. Ordered up some Japanese wineberry plants from Blackmoor, and five fruit trees as part of a Groupon deal. So lots more to do next week...

[Feral007]

Looked at the price of shadecloth in the local hardware store hoping to save a trip to Canberra Early trip to Canberra in the morning! Don't know why they don't have better pricing, if it was just a bit more expensive I'd get it, but it's just not economical. Need to put so much up to shade these new trees or they won't last 5 mins out there!

[Bren In Pots]

I've sown my sweetpeas in loo rolls and left them in the airing cupboard, then popped some Stuttgarter onion sets into modules.

[Feral007]

Pickaxed around the planting holes to loosen up the hard dirt. Put some seaweed and soil wetter onto the spots. Put hay above them to slow down any water running downhill.....always supposing it rains anytime soon. Only thing missing? The plants!

Put up electric fencing and turned it on after 'the boys' saw the hay! And measured up for the shade cloth.

Mulched around the tomato and grapes, and some of the potatoes. Pity there was no rain with the wind today.

A good start but a lot more to do.

[sammy_roser]

Was going to prepare the ground for some new plants I ordered this weekend, but as it is pouring (thankfully not raining spiders) It will have to wait. Instead I am going to finish decorating my new mini chest of drawers for my seeds

[Two_Sheds]

- sowed some onion & leek seeds in the heated prop
- chitted some more peas (Early Onward)

"And we're off !"

[bramble]

Sowed some spring onions and some more tomato seeds.
Have 8 varieties germinated so far. Inca, Tamina, Kimberley, Stupice, Sungold, Gardeners Delight, Alicante and Black Cherry.
I am watching to see if the next lot germinate as they were given to me in 2007 and I had forgotten about them.
We will wait and see.

[Tripmeup]

Sowed some onion seed:
Rouge de Florence
Red Baron
Bedfordshire Champion

Sowed some Leek seed:
Lyon 2

[SeleneMourie]

To day... the man and the boy completed the boys homework of a Roman shield after a re-con mission day out to Roman Chester yesterday where we went to the museum, the excavated amphitheatre and lunch at an outdoor cafe on the Rows. Made French toast for lunch, planted out the daffodils into the front garden (bluebells go out next weekend), planted more bloody elephant garlic!, sown more onions and leeks, tidied the book shelves, sorted out my a years worth of veg magazines so now i have 1 set month by month to refer to (stopped the order now), the man and the boy hung a new huge mirror in the bed room, did all the clothes washing, made lunch for work tomorrow with my indoor salad leaves and then i put together a glazed honey gammon Sunday roast with paprika and rosemary home grown roast potatoes, fresh cauliflower cheese and green beans (frozen from last summer) which is smelling lovely in the oven right now! (..... where's my bloomin wine lol)

[Peppermint]

Mr Peppermint spent most of the weekend starting to build a wriggly tin shed for the large gardening equipment - wheelbarrows, rolls of debris netting and wire etc. This, hopefully, will free up a lot more space in my potting shed/temporary greenhouse. Six posts now solidly concreted in. I was called upon occasionally to tamp down the concrete.

Yesterday put my Stuttgarter and Red Baron onion sets in modules. Sowed Broad Beans (and a few Field Beans) in root trainers. First time I've used these and I'm looking forward to seeing how well the beans do in these.

First thing this morning I ordered two rhubarb crowns - Champagne and Victoria (from Blackmoor). Dug over a bed ready for them and dug in plenty of rotted cow manure.

Also dug over a bed and transplanted some Autumn Bliss and an unknown raspberry (gifted) into it. Also planted out a gooseberry bush that was rooted from one of last year's cuttings.

Potted on the onion seedlings and sowed some more leek seeds.

It feels good to be getting going in the garden again

[Likac66]

Evening! Well, nothing got done in the greenhouse or allotment today. However, the indoor tomato seedlings are definitely on the way. Golden Sunrise, Garden Pearl, Tigerella and Red Cherry have all come up. One Marmande seedling has come up in the greenhouse but loads haven't yet.

[Feral007]

Slow start to the day here. Got the boy to put 11 tree lucerne plants in with some water crystals, and I watered them in with some soil wetter/seaweed/feed. Gave most of the Food Forest plants the same, and a good watering, and a big mulching with the grassy hay. Bluddy Wallaby grass! More burrs than you can poke a stick at, been picking them out of me bits and pieces for a while!
Put some more soil around the tomato plant, watered and fed it. Mulched the zuchinni and got 3 MASSIVE zuch's off it! When did they get so big?

Got the boy to mulch up some of the taters. Will do the rest in a day or two. '
Looked at the corn.....some of them have two ears of corn coming thru, and then there's some without the husks and a couple with ears on top? I know this summer has been weird but really!

[Loudbarker1]

Finally did something - rain and extra-curricular business (mosty children's parties) has kept me out of the garden.

But yesterday (depite rain)and assisted by Master Loudbarker:

planted out three pixie spring cabbage sown last November and kept in cold house. They are under a cloches are about 4 inches high with six or eitht leaves. Added a few slug pellets;

Potted a bareroot Gooseberry 'Hinnonmaki Yellow'* free from one of the mags (thank you Suttons) into a 8 inch pot. Forgot to trim back branches so will have to do that next week.

Felt very silly as I watered the over wintering lettuces that are under cloches (and therefore dry) in pouring rain. Used a touch of seaweed solution.

*"Superb, hardy bushes produce a heavy crop of medium sized, greenish yellow fruits. Unlike other varieties the unique Gooseberry ‘Hinnonmaki Yellow’ has a delicious aromatic flavour with a hint of apricot. The juicy berries are ready to harvest from June to mid July and by the second season each bush could produce over 3kg (over 6lb) of fruit" is what the T&M catelogue says.

[horticultural_hobbit]

Sown a number of different tomato varieties. Cauliflowers re-sown. Checked on baby chillies. Willed the ones in the heated prop to get a move on. Walked in to and then out of wilkos, they have fruit trees! window shopped penny less quid shop and another shop for yellow dwarf french beans.

Am now thinkin' of what to raid the VSP for.