What I did today 2012-2014

[marcofez]

Went for a walk around the allotments. Had a chat with fellow allotmenteers, enjoyed the sunshine and was given some "Red cabbage seeds". I promised to swap these for some outdoor bush type tomato seeds I have, Where's that seed box!!!

[Hootie McBoob]

Today I filled up my 1st finished raised bed and constructed a frame around it for netting/fleece as required. I also checked on my seeds in the polytunnel & gave my potato sacks a good water.
It was practically tropical in the polytunnel today so it was a pleasure to bask

[hamamelis]

Finally got round to moving the raspberries from the back garden (rental house, hoping to move out this summer) to the lottie- or at least the autumn ones, the summer ones may have to be left behind, I'm not sure if I have space, and they always seem to get raspberry beetle anyway.

Mulched anything I could think of mulching, properly put up the shelf that's been held up by sheer optimism for the last 6 months and admired the spring bulbs while I basked in the sun. Was proper t-shirt weather, even when I was just sitting there- despite the ice in the water butt.

It looks like Ill be overrun with cuttings again, almost all of them seem to have struck, and I have no idea what to do with them all- I just can't throw a potential plant away!

[Noosner]

A beauooootiful day here! A friend came to help me on lottie - we continued with the job of gravelling over a big central section where the fruit trees and bushes are. It will cut down on weeding, help I need since I've now got what looks like long term tendonitis in my right wrist. Also... dug over one bed and manured it, also weeded another. And planted 4 raspberry canes (2 x Octavia, 2 x Polka). Took peas with me (Senator, Telephone and Champion of England) also my new gage (Denniston's) also some extra Jerusalem Artichoke tubers to add to the existing ones. But ran out of time! So happy to be gardening in the sunshine. What a great time of year this is. I love it.

[sally fran]

OH got some pallets from the building site down the road. Yay! Decided to make a big soil sifter. Didn't get it finished because it took longer to get hold of the mesh and wheels I need than I'd hoped, but should get it finished tomorrow. It was such a beautiful day.

[Two_Sheds]

- paid my lotty rent and did half an hour weeding, by which time my fingers were too painful to continue
- picked the first PSB
- brought home lots of weeds for the guinea pigs to recycle: grass, groundsel, sow thistle, dandies
- sowed more peas in pots on my windowsill

[bramble]

Potted on some tomato seedlings. Sowed more peppers and spring onions. Visited the garden centre and took a very long walk. Sun was shining but the breeze was freezing.

[binley100]

Pricked out seedlings, sowed some pretty things, played musical plants

[marcofez]

Cleared some weeds from around fruit trees.
Sowed today:
Early peas "Twinkle" into cells.
Sweet peas (saved seed from fellow allotmenteer)
Red cabbage "Ivanov" swapped seeds.

[Likac66]

Potted on some tomato plants and planted some Black Cherry tomatoes based on the rave reviews they get on here. Also planted some purple cauliflower seeds. Put the heater in the greenhouse ready to try to warm it to put the tomato plants in there when they're a bit more established. Played musical plants with all the pots on the windowsills to try to fit them into various heated and unheated propagators.

First signs of peas coming through that I planted in the unheated greenhouse weeks and weeks ago.

[VirginVegGrower]

Not a sosidge!

[PyreneesPlot]

This week - turned compost heaps, sowed tomatoes, lettuces and basil.
Quick check around to see what has woken up and will need protecting. Is it has been in the twenties but is going to snow again tonight.

[Loudbarker1]

More accurately, what I did last weekend........

Harvested dome leeks. There was toomuch leek moth for my liking. Curiously some leeks had become slimy just above ground level so that if you pulled to top to hard it came away. Not pleasant.

Also trimed gooseberry plant potted up the weekend before.

[KittyColdNose]

Gave the shed another coating being as we have had two dry days in a row then turned the compost in the dalek.

Almost had a flakey doing this when I saw hunners of teeny white worms in with loads of lovely big fat red worms. A bit of research later and I think they are pot worms. I have a bag of wood ash in the shed and some egg shells waiting to be ground up. Hopefully this will help reduce the Ph and the amount of white wrigglies, but till I get round to this in a couple of days the compost is on a diet.

[Aberdeenplotter]

It is a real pity you have a shortage of birds. It would have been ideal to spread the contents of you dalek and leave them to have a feast.