What I did today 2012-2014

[sequoia]

Cut my spare draw hoe down to make a onion hoe,with my small angle grinder,then went out in the sun to try (this was yesterday) Wow this has made the job a lot easier.

[Feral007]

Mowed, watered, fed, but didn't mulch.
Kids pumped water.
Tomorrow I'll be putting some more plants in. And mulching.

[Noosner]

Haha, you sound like me. I told myself that I'd buy next to nothing this year, my new year's resolution is now just a distant memory. Oh well, I still spend less on gardening than my dad does on pigeons.

Oh, me too! Have gadzillions of seeds left over from last year and had resolved to use only those this year, but found myself buying 150 runner beans (when I only have room for about 30 on my plot) and lots of red onion sets yesterday when confronted with those marvellous sacks of loose beans, sets and tubers at the local nursery. Not to mention a greengage tree and more raspberry canes.

Am going to a Potato Day today...

[BeBe48]

Off to the lottie in a mo to sow broadies, peas an spring onions. Tis the season to get sowing tra la la la!

[roitelet]

Sowed Cayenne Peppers 'cos the moon said so and they only arrived yestrday!

[lottie dolly]

Had a lovely little time at lottie,sowed a few letuce seeds,put more of last years part grow onions into a seed tray,dug up 2 dead rhubarbs,planted 2 new ones from my spares,general tidy up and move around in the grow barn plus soil disturbance,more to do when the lettuce is out,plus have decided to leave it with the 1 central path,but plant it up as if it had separate beds,

[Hootie McBoob]

Today I sowed jalapeno & cayenne chillis, moneymaker & pomodoro tomatoes, Bunyards exhibition broad beans and a variety of herbs for indoors.

My husband is just finishing off making my 2nd raised bed for the garden, so hopefully I can get those filled & planted very soon.

[sally fran]

Finished making eighth raised bed in the garden. The shallots and onions will be going in it soon.
Sowed second batch of broad beans indoors.

[Peppermint]

Went and picked up more timber for the shed Mr Peppermint is building. He got on with that whilst I focussed on the garden.

Japanese Wineberry planted
2 Rhubarb planted - Champagne and Victoria.
Started to dig a new bed. Got halfway and hope the weather holds so that I can finish tomorrow.
Ordered 6 Raspberry Canes - Octavia.

[Bigmallly]

Lifted remaining strawb runners & planted them in this years bed through newspaper & mulched with rotted chippings. Planted 150 onion sets...........Forgot to take the pigging Wineberry.........

[veggiechicken]

Went in search of a wineberry in an overgrown fruit patch
Hacked my way through this
and turned it into this.
Still a lot to do - but I did find the wineberry

[rabbit]

I've taken some scion wood from the pear tree and it's in the fridge ready for grafting when the sap rises in Spring. The pear tree will be chopped down fairly soon so this is just a last ditch attempt to rescue it in some small form. I need a good sharp pocket knife as I didn't want to use any of my good kitchen knives and there is a garden knife in shed-2 but it's a sharpened butter knife. It wasn't really sharp enough for a good clean cut.

Telephone peas, sweet peppers, chilli peppers, sweet pea and calendula seeds are germinating!

I've planted some new marmande tomatoes and peppers which are in the airing cupboard, those are for my Dad. When the heated propator is free (when the chillies are out) I'll plant some more toms as I got some free gardener's delight seeds.

I've planted some greyhound cabbage, french marigolds and nasturtiums in modules in the lean to this weekend.

Outside I've put coffee grounds and chicken manure on the active bed, tilled the soil and marked out the square foot with nails. I might sow a square foot of early nantes carrots this weekend (also free seeds). I've also put coffee and eggshells on the rhubarb patch, which isn't progressing very much at all (but we've been very cold a frosty until recently). I spotted some really gross slug larvae squirming while I was weeding that rhubarb patch, I guess I had better get used to those. Last but not least we also planted 5 asparagus crowns in 2 half barrels with new compost and some chicken manure, and blood fish and bone mixed in.

Tomorrow I'll fertilise and till the other beds, and hubby and I are going to try and snatch some horse manure that's always up for grabs at the local stable and turn it into the big compost heap/mulch pile. I might take some mulch before the poo goes in to put on the veg beds before I recover them. We never seem to get the manure in time, there are too many keen gardeners in the area! I don't really know where I can plant the 3 raspberry canes I've bought, there is no ideal place ready so I think they'll go in the overflow plot.

Bought a cheapy cheap 2 tier plastic greenhouse in morrisons (£8) and I need to beg borrow or steal some glass for the roofless cold frame, i think I've spotted some in a neighbours alleyway over the road, time to get friendly?

There is a remote possibility of a free greenhouse for me which is exciting. My Grandpa had one and we he died my Grandma moved into an appartment and rented the house they shared out. If the tennants don;t use it and dont mind, I might be able to have it, althought I assume the dismantling will be difficult and very delicate. Still, it would be somewhere to put the toms chillies and cucumbers!

Wow this was long. I've rambled a lot sorry!

[hollychap]

in the greenhouse at the lottie sown 3 tight rows of beetroot 2 rows of carrots 1 row of radish and covered them with 2 poly clotches i bought for a quid each in the b&m autumn sale also removed all the dead leaves off my strawberry planter and finally made a start on digging the bed for this years brassicas

[Snadger]

Been working a lot of overtime recently so it was nice to do an hour or two's tidying up of allotlment after work. Pruned the old raspberry canes out. Cut down the overgrown chrysanths, chopped down the 8 foot high sunflower canes, cut down last years broad beans and tidied up a load of herbacious perennials i have at the plot. Sowed a few leeks in a tray in the greenhouse and watered the garlic plants with armillatox.

[VirginVegGrower]

Cut back in the garden. Got all the leaves of the second border. Only four more to go. Spread leaf mold and compost mulch on top. Dry leaves into cage to rot down. Cleaned out hens, turned compost after adding bedding/paper/poop. Finished one side of Tansy's garden with snowdrops, cyclamen and tete a tete daffs. Mulched it and finished off with logroll edging. Put in a woodchip path. Cleaned a load of pots, trugs and trays. Sown tomatoes, broad beans and peas in guttering. Water the polytunnel and planted chard seedlings in there.
Pricked out and potted on peppers.
Feeling good that drier days are ahead - still coolish.