What I did today 2012-2014

[Noosner]

Champion of England, yay! My very fave of all peas.

[Noosner]

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.

Oops, forgot to specify who I was replying to. So I'll say it again (it bears repeating) - Champion of England peas - yay! The best pea ever.

[Noosner]

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 *.

Good idea re the fabric. Have replanted my strawberry plants slightly in the shade this year. I'll do anything to put a spoke in their wheel.

[rabbit]

whatever you do, do not spray the grass with a glyphosate based weedkiller. Rhubarb seems to absorb it by the root and it will die even if there is no leaf contact/absorbtion

I have no idea if it really is couch grass AP. I'm just trying to get the little tufts out as they come. I'm sure I won't spray there. I don't really know how to identify couc grass. I have a plot that I was going to turf which seems to have turned into grass anyway. That might be couch grass I'm not sure.

[Aberdeenplotter]

dig a bit out. Couch grass has long white brittle roots. Couch grass / Royal Horticultural Society . The picture seen following that link must be of quite a young specimen because the roots can travel for yards.

[Bren In Pots]

Sown my toms along with some parsley, marigolds, and another pinch of spring onions.

[Linzy]

Move my broadbeans from the bedroom window sill to the greenhouse (erected mice deterants), dug over greenhouse beds, went to the lottie put up a shed we made from scaffolding and blackboards and dug over 1/3 of the plot. Sown some cabbages, spring onions and night scented stocks

[out in the cold]

Pressed on with building my cold frame from old pallets until rain stopped play

[PyreneesPlot]

Sown sweet peas, broad beans, beetroot, campsis. Potted on some scotch bonnets. Started new compost heap. Weeded pots and planters.
Made first batch of nettle tea.
Warm, lovely day!

[WPG]

Turned the compost (how do egg shells always manage to make their way, intact, to the bottom?). Dug in some overwintered green manure (red clover) and cut the last of the Rudolf purple sprouting broccoli.

Been dry for about a week here, but still very chilly.

[Feral007]

Pony club day today, so only admired the garden today when I got home. Walked around the fruit part with the boy who lives in town now. He was quite impressed with our Chia plants!

[w33blegurl]

Edged some beds at the lottie using old pallets then stopped as the drill ran out of charge! Then stared at the tray housing my lettuce seeds willing them to grow!

[sammy_roser]

Cleaned and rearranged half my patio. Still need some helpful rain to wash away all the mud that made it on there.

Filled two dustbins 2/3 with mpc and popped the lids on to help warm the soil for my potatoes at the end of the month, managed to crack one of them so now need to find something to patch the hole.

Checked on the apple mint I ordered a while ago which turned up in a state, all seem to have new growth and after a quick squeeze they smell like apples, where as before they just smelled minty.

Dug up a bit of the border to see if it was dry enough to start planting flowers, very soft but not visible water, so long as we don't have any monsoon type weather things are looking good.

[Nicos]

Cut small lawn to rear. Flipping heck it was long!

Looking nice now though

[horticultural_hobbit]

Made lots and lots of paper pots. Mainly for module sown leggy stuff. But also as prep for more beans and perhaps some peas.