What I did today 2012-2014

[Mikey]

This is yesterday rather than today, I spent a lovely cold day over the lottie. Planted 6 rows of carrots, 3 of beetroot, 3 potatoes, 3 of peas, and 200 onion sets, then covered the lot with mini polytunnels.
This was quickly followed by raking over the remaining autumn dug beds and covering with black plastic to warm the soil. I then fumigated the greenhouse, and potted up, some brocolli, purple sprouting, some more tomatoes, and some chillies.

A pleasing day all round, ably assisted by my DD aged 7 3/4.

[traceys plot]

sowed runner beans, pumpkins, sweet peas, spring onions, noticed the early peas are poking through the soil, probably to see the sun

[Florence Fennel]

Finally managed an hour outside after work potting up some Black Russian tomatoes. Now the lighter nights are on the way I'm hoping to do a little each day. Sungold tomorrow.

[Two_Sheds]

Sunshine!
- all afternoon up lotty, digging out couch grass. It is less than in previous years, and the neighbour is getting on top of it (it comes in from next door)

- sowing a load of buckwheat green manure
- planted up yet more chitted peas. I'm doing LOADS this year: direct sowing is a disaster, due to pea weevils eating the seed
- turned over all 5 lotty daleks: superb stuff at the bottom. Spread it about loosely on the beds
- re-sited the daleks on the beds that need compost the most
- sowed lettuce & hardy flowers in the gh
- fed everything in gh with seaweed/comfrey/slug feed
- started chitting crimson broad beans
- dug out the north strawberry bed, full of couch. Won't bother replanting until sure couch is beat
- cut down raspberry canes, left the chopped bits on soil as a mulch

[GardenNinja]

Sowed mangetout, spinach, salad leaves, land cress, some flower seeds.

[sally fran]

Dismantled and started rebuilding one of my raised beds which was bulging badly on the downhill side. Oh the joys of gardening on a slope.

To be fair it has lasted a couple of years even though I did build it rather shabbily but I've learned a lot since then. Hope to have time to finish it tomorrow.

[VirginVegGrower]

Started to dig over the other half of the garden - only done a third, but that has taken me all day, non stop pretty much. Gave a box of strawberries away to a good home. After I turned the soil and weeded, I lost 360 litres of compost on that bit alone. Reckon I need twice that much again. Off for a bath now to get the rose thorns and bits of ceanothus out of my hair. Absolutely shattered! Dibbed in a few new plants, pinks, iris and such like.

[PyreneesPlot]

Weeded herb bed - full of creeping buttercup - cut back woody herbs.

[Thelma Sanders]

Cleared out the greenhouse and washed it down with Jay's fluid

[Bren In Pots]

Sown Kale, mixed lettuce leaves plus some wild flower seeds in modules.

[lottieheaven]

spring tidy up of the shed, blitzed with the screwdriver and put up hooks and wood battens for storage. Tidied up after the mice !!
put some raised beds together with some 2nd hand wood.
spread out some free soil improver from my local recycling centre

[Likac66]

Popped to the plot this evening after work as someone had given me a compost bin for free! Took it straight there.

[Doive]

Planted up the remainder of the first and second early spuds, that's eight lots in now. Can't remember how many more are left...! Set some carrot and parsnip seeds out to chit, then spent hours preparing the growing mix for them. Potted up 120 bio pots with the mix and set them aside in preparation.

[Zenithtb]

A little late as this was a couple of days ago, but

• planted six asparagus roots (to see if I like them, how they grow etc).
• Also planted another set of onions (1-200).
• Finally, five more tomatoes as I'm not sure how my others are are going to do as we had a sudden unexpected cold-snap followed by massive rain-fall. As this is Spain I'd planted them straight outside, which may have worked against me with the near zero temperatures
• Edit: and OH planted some spinach seeds

[Ananke]

I potted on my Cayenne peppers and basil.
Sowed 50 broad beans
Sowed several seeds of 6 varieties of tomato to back up the early sown ones as they are so leggy i'm not sure they will be any good, I'm thinking of just using the armpits from them when they appear.
Sowed some pointy red peppers, i've been saving the seed for a couple of years now, the original ones were from some organic pointy peppers I bought at the supermarket and they do really well compared to the pepper seeds i've bought.