What I did today 2012-2014

[rustylady]

Managed an hour at the allotment this afternoon after the grandchildren were picked up. It's now pouring with rain, so I hope the forecast is right and it's a better day tomorrow.

[vikkib]

Put the final coat of paint on my fleabay purhased baby changing unit (now potting table!)

Sowed some free French marigold seeds that came with new heated prop.

Made a shed! OH and I put together a little pent roof shed we bougjt last autumn and have been waiting for a weekend with some decent weather! Just got it built and 2 coats of paints on the back before the rain set in! Carried on tidying up in the garden in the rain then decided that a glass of white wine and the sofa was the better part of valour! ; )

[Tripmeup]

Planted out some Lolla Rossa lettuce plants
Sowed some more Lolla Rossa seeds...
Split some chives and planted them in the herb bed
Planted out some potato onions sets..
Sowed my Mizen, Tibet & Bolivia Yellowhesh potatoes....
Sowed some Sungold tomato seeds...

[out in the cold]

Got busy with the spade and tore up my lawn, dug drainage ditches and got some sand and gravel in them

[bario1]

Bought a bale of straw and mixed some of it with the freshish manure i picked up last weekend.
Picked up some free well-rotted manure from a local stables.
Picked up a couple of builder's bags off Freegle.
Screwed some handles onto the lights of my cold frame.
Sowed beetroot and carrots in modules in the cold frame.
Sowed Duke of York, Maris Piper and Exsqisa potatoes in my lasagne bed.
Sowed expensive aubergine seeds in expensive seed compost in cheap modules.
Tipped said modules and their contents all over the pavement on the way out of the allotment.
Scrabbled around swearing and trying to gather up the expensive mess on the pavement.
Went through the expensive mess with a chopstick and a high powered torch on the kitchen table, picking out the seeds.
Sowed expensive aubergine seeds in expensive seed compost in cheap modules.

[out in the cold]

Nice to know it is not just me that does this kinda thing...

Bought a bale of straw and mixed some of it with the freshish manure i picked up last weekend.
Picked up some free well-rotted manure from a local stables.
Picked up a couple of builder's bags off Freegle.
Screwed some handles onto the lights of my cold frame.
Sowed beetroot and carrots in modules in the cold frame.
Sowed Duke of York, Maris Piper and Exsqisa potatoes in my lasagne bed.
Sowed expensive aubergine seeds in expensive seed compost in cheap modules.
Tipped said modules and their contents all over the pavement on the way out of the allotment.
Scrabbled around swearing and trying to gather up the expensive mess on the pavement.
Went through the expensive mess with a chopstick and a high powered torch on the kitchen table, picking out the seeds.
Sowed expensive aubergine seeds in expensive seed compost in cheap modules.

[Feral007]

Watering the green manure seed done last week. Not up yet

Son said he will do some more today. Running out of hay to mulch it with.............can I spare time to get some more tomorrow?

Planning to put up some wire and can then put in broad bean seedlings.

Need to do some fencing in the paddocks first tho.

[bario1]

Sat hunched in my shed/wendy house with my legs sticking out of the door in the wind and rain, sewing peas (Kelvedon and Ann) and Nero di Toscana in cardboard pots for the cold frame.
Sowed a row of mixed radishes in a long window box also for the cold frame.
Cold frame filling up nicely!

[Snadger]

Finally got around to shifting my tomato and pepper plants from the bedroom window sill to the greenhouse.
The weather forcast for the next few days isn't too bad so I potted a few toms on into individual pots.
Took a chance and left the bubble wrap off the peach tree too, after atacking the flowers with a feather to pollinate them.

[treepixie]

Went to the allotment and planted the seed potatoes, the rest of the strawberry plants, 1 rhubarb and 5 raspberry canes

[Likac66]

Yesterday I made some crafty cute plant labels. I know they're not terribly practical but I thought they were cute.



Today my parents and I went up to the allotment and put up the polytunnel frame. It was too windy to put on the cover and after much discussion it was decided that I do need the heavy duty anchor kit after all. Came home and ordered it! took the cloche off the broad beans.

Sowed 24 Shiraz Mange Tout and 21 Oregon Mange Tout in the greenhouse.

[rustylady]

Grandson sowed the Meteor pea seeds that came free with GYO. Only had 12 of them so we put them in a pot

Allotment this afternoon, more weeding and digging.

[hamamelis]

Decided it wasn't really going to rain, so went down the lottie. Planted out a feijoa, and a few more spuds, admired the beans that are finally coming up, decided to pull out some of the weeds that were growing up around them. Pulled up a bean while not paying attention.

Did a spot of birdwatching, saw my first swallow of the year. Drank tea. Came home just before it started raining. Now having a game of windowsill tetris, in an attempt to make more space where no space exists.

[Martin H]

Finished digging bed 3 at the allotment. Sowed some peas (Onward) under poly cloches and some carrots (amsterdam forcing) under fleece, just to see how they get on. Mrs H took another bootload of junk down the tip.

[bramble]

Took a chance and put all my geranium and fuschias back out as i need the space in the greenhouse.