What I did today 2012-2014

[Likac66]

Bought a small bag of compost, some more seed trays, propagator lids and smallish square plots ready to pot on and sow more at the weekend.

[Doive]

Planted out the Hatif early pea seedlings, and sowed a further 3 sqft of Hatif seeds to go with them. Also planted out the Tom Thumb dwarf pea seedlings. So that's 8sqft of dwarf early peas in. Still have frosts here, but the Hatif don't seem to mind.

[arronb]

Yesterday I went to the local garden centre and bought 3 bags of multi purpose compost to start sowing some more seeds!

I sowed some more Tomatoes (gardeners delight) to go with the moneymakers and san marzano's sowed last month.

I sowed some autumn mammoth leeks in a pot, 30x caulis, cabbages and calabrese, 25 broad beans and 50 peas both in peat pots to give them a kick start, and placed them in the greenhouse.

Went to the lottie and cleared a patch where I then planted the garlic and will gradually continue moving down to the bottom. The 1st plot I have is all ready and has been dug over since early Jan, just the larger one of the two now

[Two_Sheds]

- the tomatoes are up, so moved them out of heated prop & onto sunny windowsills
- sowed HH annuals in heated prop (salvia)
- peas have chitted, so they got planted into 3" pots, in unheated gh
- gave the gh a good clean with the Polti
- chitted more peas (I never do enough)
- gathered another bag of seaweed off the beach (and one of human plastic litter)
- added a layer of coffee grinds to the nearly-full dog poo dalek
- pulled grass weeds out of the front garden for the guinea pigs
- cut some wallflowers for the staffroom

[Verinda]

Today I was digging up rushes and...Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!! I don't like'em!!! There's far too many rushes, I wish they were good for something, perhaps I should get a donkey to eat them all...do donkey's eat rushes I wonder, I'm sure they do!

[marcofez]

Sowed my leeks today!!!
Had 4 varieties, so sowed a bit of all
They were: Musselburgh
Oarsman F1 Hybrid
Pandora
Bleu de Solaise
All sown in a cat litter tray!
Also sown some "rocket leaves" and spinach in the polytunnel border!

[Noosner]

Got Mr Noosner to come down to lottie to help me plant and stake my new greengage tree (Denniston's Superb) and even do a bit of digging over. Miracles will never cease!

We drank coffee on the bench and passers-by on the river path congratulated us on how good lottie is starting to look.

Put my peas in (Champion of England, Telephone and Senator) and planted a load of bergamot root from the garden round the back of the shed.

Put some compost and bark round my clematis (another garden transplant from last year). It has quite a few green shoots and hopefully will cover the shed in extravagant flowers this summer. Well, a gal can dream.

Back at home, finished transferring strawberry plants. 20 went into a different bed, 20 I've potted for a charity jumble sale next weekend.

Sowed Nantes Early carrots under another £4.99 polytunnel from Boyes. Mulched my little ornamental acer with compost and bark.

Then wallowed in a hot bath for half an hour - bliss!

[Acanthus]

You have a dalek full of dog poo?

[binley100]

planted out some red shallots under fleece, fleeced my garlic and overwintering onions (leaf miner time is nigh) covered a bed with cardboard, ......found the label for last years squash survivors, came home and transplanted some seedlings, sowed some sweet peas.......

[Feral007]

Going to look at garden shops today......and try not to buy anything It's autumn planting time and I want to get some seeds going, but I really wouldn't mind just a couple of seedlings as well, just love seeing some of them take off when they get to free range in the garden.

[Doive]

Took a chance with my Champion of England pea seedlings, they are a good six inches tall and really needed planting out before they all grew into each other. So planted them either side of the pea netting, and double fleeced all around both sides of the frame, in a perhaps vain attempt of keeping the frost off them. Still, it's early enough to start again if the frost really does get at them.

Spent a good three hours sieving sphagnum peat moss down in stages until it was super fine like talcum powder, then made up the growing mix for the carrots and parsnips - calcified seaweed, superphosphate, sulphate of potash and silver sand all mixed to the sieved peat. The soil in the raised beds is quite heavy and coarse, so perfect for making dibs for the root vegetables. Drill with a wood corer bit, thick bamboo cane to make the cone shape, fill it with mix, tamp down, plant seed, top off, water. Repeat x 49.

[kathyd]

Made war on the strawberry bed, which looks more like an alien invasion. Was impossible to sort the wretched things out in situ, so decided to dig up the whole bed and replant a small number through landscaping fabric, hoping this will act as a contraceptive for the coming year... Only got half the bed done and I was kn&^%$ered, so went in for a long bath with a glass of wine and a batch of old Feb-Apr gardening mags . And now for Day 2 of the campaign *sigh *.

[Feral007]

Well I didn't get a freezer to put what we've managed to grow into, will sort that soon tho!
Did end up at bunnings, got two assorted lettuce seedlings, one for a friend who's bought her first house. Planning to give her a bag of compost planted up with lettuce, and a few herbs if I can get them going in time.
Also got an evergreen blueberry plant. Red onions again, Bok Choi. 2 globe artichokes. and probably a couple of other things. Still in the car tonight. I didn't get the two kiwi fruit plants..........but only because I know son would harrass me about getting things before we are ready for them..........I'm going to dig two holes this week and buy them on thursday instead I just feel the need for a couple of thuggish plants in the back yard!

[KittyColdNose]

Noticed yesterday that we are the proud owners of a mushroom.

Not bad going from a £1 kit, and the fact that I had a poorly hand through work and dropped the blimmin thing! Messed up all the compost that came with it so decided to top it up with the used coffee grounds I brought home. Looks like it worked

[Likac66]

^^^^^ Great looking mushroom!

I've already put the potatoes out to chit this morning, sown some more chilli and pepper seeds in the propagator (given up waiting for those I sowed weeks ago), and sown petunia seeds. Oh and replaced the cauliflower seeds as I had put them in the propagator and they were very, very leggy so this time they've just gone into the greenhouse.

Hoping to do more later this afternoon.