What I did today 2012-2014

[rustylady]

Just been up to the greenhouse and brought all the tomatoes indoors for the night. Feels chilly out there already

[VirginVegGrower]

Damn it...thanks RL for the reminder!

[veggiechicken]

Potted on 120 bedding plants and some kale to fill up the gaps in the modules - making 192 plants in total!!
Planted out some potato onions and Welsh onions into the bizarre perennial onions bed
Started to clear another part of the garden - for a change of scenery. More brambles and bracken, all undermined by rabbit burrows and vole holes.
Disturbed an enormous frog, about the size of my palm. He blended so well with his surroundings that I lost sight of him. I moved to another patch as I didn't want to harm him.
It was one of those days when I didn't want to stop digging. I've just come inside now - A glorious sunny day

[Bren In Pots]

Planted out more parsnips that I'd chitted on kitchen roll.

[zazen999]

I've just sorted out my seed stash. Less of a stash more a collection.

Put aside seeds to sow tomorrow...including potato onions, cinnamon vine and yacon. It's gonna be a long day!

[Snadger]

Went to the allotment with the full intention of planting my Desiree spuds............fat chance!
Decided to complete my row of supports for my sweet peas. I now have a post, a length of reinforcing mesh about 6 foot wide,another post, a 6 foot high hooped wrought iron gate,another post,another standard wrought iron gate,another post, another small hooped wrought iron gate set at right angles at the end of the bed!
Went to plant the spuds after raking the bed i'd dug the other day and decided the bed edges needed work. Decided to use three 4 inch diameter fence posts about 7 foot long. Cut the pointy ends off with a blunt saw and an axe! then set them in position. Went and got the spuds to plant to be bombarded by hailstones the size of peas!

Retired to greenhouse with spuds.

Spuds still didn't get planted!

[marchogaeth]

Spuds still didn't get planted!

Mine did! Well half of them anyway. Sharpo-something-or-other. I really hope they are blight tolerant and tasty.

Edit Sarpo Mara

[Jamesy_uk]

Went down the lotty to check spuds are still under the soil in case of frost and found to my dismay all my cauliflower are bolting. Whilst there I met a new plot holder who I furnished with a cauliflower, some scallions and a bucket of 25 strawberry runners because it wasn't like he didn't have enough to do already.

[binley100]

Worked on area at lottie which will be for social events, quick inspection of plot then home to weed the garden ......where the chuff has that ground elder come from ?

[Tripmeup]

Planted some Marfona potatoes in bags
Continued moving the large manure heap
Sowed some cucumber and courgette seeds..
Sowed some herbs..
Did a load of potting on of toms and chillies
Rotavated a patch of my lawn that needed levelling after digging a trench for my hedge

[kathyd]

Been soaking dozens of french beans, runner beans and sweetcorn to plant out - then the weather changed!! So spent yesterday planting about 90 into individual small pots until I ran out, and changed water on the others.. fingers crossed the cold spell is shorter than expected...

[traceys plot]

potted on tomatoes into buckets, made progress with raised beds thanks to my better half

[rustylady]

Yet more digging and weeding at the allotment. Planted Charlotte potatoes. Noticed that the Kelvedon Wonder peas and the radishes are up, and two spears of asparagus showing above the ground

[VirginVegGrower]

Day spent dodging rain, hail and inbetween we had sun. Moved the chooks. Meant to have a clean out but being rained on put paid to that. Potted on some toms and weeded a little in the poly. Mr VVG has been working at the raised beds all day and had to take out a ceanothus tree that had cracked and died off but it has given me more room for veg and potentially another fruit tree planting hole
Hoping to get up the Lotty early tomorrow morning.

[Peppermint]

OH built me a 3' x 3' raised bed. Will be filled tomorrow for me to sow parsnips.

I planted 83 potatoes in various parts of the garden (did 63 last week)

Red Duke of York
Premier
Blue Bell
King Edwards
A couple of Charlottes.

Have the rest of the Charlottes and the Kestrels still to plant. Also a black currant and blackberry bush ('cause I went wondering round the garden centre during my lunch break on Friday )

It's starting to feel like spring here, the daffodils are out and the tulips will be flowering this week. One or two of my fruit bushes are starting to sprout leaves and a little row of radishes I planted a couple of weeks ago are through.