What I did today 2012-2014

[Gurberly]

........ I'll need to pick-axe out about another 9 inches of chalk at the top end of the slope and fill up at the bottom end. Hope my back holds out!

9 inches with a pick axe?? Do yourself a favour and hire a breaker from your local tool hire shop. They aare not expensive an easy to use, take it from one who has just broken up an old concrete pond.

G

[Barking Postlethwaite]

Today I abandoned plans for an early sowing of peas, carrots and spring onions anytime this week. Now the ground is finally drying up I did have hopes, but with the temperature not forecast to get to 10 degrees all week and a frost every night there doesn't seem much point. Might go and spread a bit of compost around the plot if the wind isn't too biting.

Dedicated, me.

[Feral007]

Planted the rest of the 47 small trees, watered all, mulched up to 40, the rest will have to wait till tomorrow - I is wore out!
Chook house cleaned out and new straw and water put in.
My back is going to be complaining tomorrow - hope I don't have a birth, all that crawling round on the floor with them won't help my back

[redser]

Today I abandoned plans for an early sowing of peas, carrots and spring onions anytime this week. Now the ground is finally drying up I did have hopes, but with the temperature not forecast to get to 10 degrees all week and a frost every night there doesn't seem much point. Might go and spread a bit of compost around the plot if the wind isn't too biting.

Dedicated, me.

Would you not start off the spring onions (in clumps) and peas in modules indoors? You can plant them out later when it warms up. It's not long to go now!

[Barking Postlethwaite]

I do already have some overwintering onions (although they're not doing very well) and some peas just started indoors in paper pots, but I wanted to plant some outside under fleece as well.

[VirginVegGrower]

OK, finished sowing of my main tomatoes. I am going for eight different varieties this year and that's trimmed down. Tops off in the greenhouse - not mine I hasten to add. Sharing a chair in the greenhouse with Roosty and coffee had. Citrus pots fed and topped with new compost. Greenhouse cleaned again - how do I spread compost everywhere? Feeling good and loving this weather. Cycle ride this afternoon I think and al fresco lunch. I feel the need to visit Wilkos!

[sally fran]

9 inches with a pick axe?? Do yourself a favour and hire a breaker from your local tool hire shop. They aare not expensive an easy to use, take it from one who has just broken up an old concrete pond.

G

Thanks for that advice G - I feel a bit stupid for not thinking of it myself! I was really dreading getting down to the chalk - now I'm rather looking forward to it!

[sammy_roser]

Bought and planted garlic chives. Attached willow trellis to the fence for my chocolate vine to grow up.

[Snadger]

Spent an hour at the allotment after work til the sun went down. Built a small raised bed out of pantiles (no NOT panties!) for to grow carrots in this year. Just need to infill it with a sandy mix now and build a frame round it covered with enviromesh.

[veggiechicken]

Cut back the grapevine in the GH as it makes it too shady. Made note to check my cup of coffee for fallen debris before drinking it next time.
Another pane of glass decided to crack and ejected a great chunk of glass which slid down the outside of the roof, wedging itself into the frame. Found steps and fumbled around for it. Thick gloves may protect your hands but they make picking up glass very difficult.
Planted some lettuce seedlings in the GH border and 2 potato onions into pots.

[binley100]

today I have .........walked, swept, sorted(washing), emptied(dishwasher) sown, weeded, fed, barrowed, mulched, harvested, cooked, eaten, showered, sorted (washing) ........and am now on the verge of collapse ..

[sally fran]

Digging and sieving and barrowing soil onto beds. All day. Think I need a bigger sieve.

[out in the cold]

Today I have limped a lot, tried not to swear in front of the kids and been very sore.

(Yes, I realise it is a gardening related thread, but following tge weekend's exertions, these are gardening related aches and pains).

It's been a while.

Oh yeah. I registered an interest in having a lotty with the council, who are trying to get some going in the village

[out in the cold]

As in roofing "slates"?

Never thought about using them for border or bed building

Spent an hour at the allotment after work til the sun went down. Built a small raised bed out of pantiles (no NOT panties!) for to grow carrots in this year. Just need to infill it with a sandy mix now and build a frame round it covered with enviromesh.

[scorpius]

What a lovely sunny day! managed to get out into the garden, cut back some plants, weeded the tubs out the front, swept the path.