What I did today 2012-2014

[Loudbarker1]

Watered modules and pots in hot house - french beans, courgettes, cucumbers, squash, lettuce, beetroot, celeriac, tomatos....

Have french people coming to stay over weekend - just want to get out to the garden to spread compst, sow pasnips, carrots, plant out beets and get up to new garden area to start work on that. On the other hand Mrs Loudbarker has planned a menu to die for.

(Saturday: smoked mackerel pâté,
Rocket and gruyere tart with (home grown) salad; lemon posset and (home grown) raspberries with almond biscuit.
Sunday: roast lemon chicken, herb lentils with dressing, (home grown) spinage pesto, stuffed peppers; meringue with fruit compote and (home grown) raspberry cream
Monday: ragu with (home grown) ps broccoli and (home grown) salad

Since you ask

[rustylady]

Had to water the peas and onions at the lottie

Hate watering and try to manage without, but it's soooooooooooooo dry now.

Planted out some lettuce seedlings and some comfrey offshoots. Yet more weeding and a bit of digging, but it was so hot over there.

[KittyColdNose]

Went to work, had a job interview and now sitting looking at the rain

[Florence Fennel]

Potted on 4 very handsome Big Max pumpkins and 4 black beefsteak toms.

[VirginVegGrower]

Planted my greenhouse tomatoes. I have spares should disaster strike but needs must. Needs for space. Cleaned out greenhouse. Sown more carrots at the lotty. Pricked out more PSB to find I had already got PSB. So now I have more spares, godamnit!
Fed with seaweed in the polytunnel

[Irish-Veg]

Yesterday I raked in 2 year old rotted chicken manure, dug 3 new ridges, and sewed Kale/Calbrese/Cauliflower and covered the top of the ridges with black plastic as scutch grass is going crazy, might plant a quick crop like lettuce on them in a month or so).
Watered seedliings I had transplanted the previous day (ground is so dry!)
weeded my "bath" of strawberries (I love recycling "junk"!)
weeded around my carrrots/parsnips.
Transplanted a blackcurrant bush.
Prepared the ground for my young leaks to go into in a week or two.
sewed more carrots with wildflowers, at 60:40 blight resistant but i read this idea online.
harvested a few leaves from my young spinach plants

[veggiechicken]

It's bad luck to cut down a holly - hope nothing goes wrong

Good job I'm not superstitious - especially as I have several more to get rid of

Today I planted Chinese Artichokes in the Bizarre Roots bed and some Angelica plants grown from seeds collected last year.
Came to GH No 3 where all the seedlings had shrivelled up after 2 weeks without water and the salad leaves and rocket had flowered in an attempt to survive.
The tatties in bags are flourishing though and the kiwiberries that were on a windowsill look very healthy - and there are lots more of them

[hellybore]

Finally finished clearing my beds of the dreaded couch grass today, so got to do a nice easy job for a change... sowed seeds of perpetual spinach, Good King Henry, lettuce and rocket. All in nice warm soil.
Also finished my turf settee! It looks a bit moth-eaten but hopefully will green up soon. Hope there will be lots of sunny days this year to sit on it!

[binley100]

Worked on our social events garden at the lottie, sorted out some plants and seeds for tomorrow, tried to identify toms where the labels have faded watered stuff and generally faffed about ......

[sammy_roser]

Planted on my cherokee purple tomato, sowed chard, kale, sprouts, cauliflower and purple sprouting broccoli, started planting hanging basket.

[gardenpassion]

Watered everything in the greenhouse.. sugarsnap peas, show perfection peas, toms, lettuce, psb, load of cauliflower, courgettes, leeks, seed onions, broad beans, more peas, runner and french beans, and lots of chilli (35!!!). The first lot of chilli didnt germinate so I stripped the dried up one that was in the porch and planted all the seeds. GReat result, they all are through in 3 days. will be an interesting experiment. Decided that the vege growing is replacing my need to nuture, especially as the kids are growing up and becoming more independant!! Cant describe the 'happy feeling' felt when the first small shoots appear from the compost, great isnt it?
Lets all hope for something of a summer,..... or is it too late now?

[wizzbang]

I've sown radish, spinach and spring onions out in the beds then both Runner and Serbian beans into loo rolls they're on the window sill indoors.

Bren, when you plant out your spring onion seedlings how do you make sure they don't get damaged or do you mean that you sow directly onto the ground.
I transplanted some from a seed tray to the ground yesterday and made a right mess of it. I don't think its the right thing to do or if it is I don't know how to do it without causing damage.
What do you do?
Lynne x

[Likac66]

Re-sowed some cucumber, squash and courgette seeds as I have had a very poor germination rate so far.

Went to the lottie and watered peas and broad beans.

Made my first attempt at nettle tea.

[Currysniffa]

Planted a row of beetroot grown in modules and a row of turnips grown in modules too.
I'm still a little behind where I want to be. But should catch up after the bank holiday. Peas lettuce, brassicas going in as well as dwarf beans in the greenhouse.

[chefgage]

Finally got round to planting out a load of beetroot (golden and alto) in the raised beds. lots of seeds also sown in the raised beds. I have had the raised beds for four years now, when i first made them i was going to put some weed suppresion matting with bark chips on top to make the beds look a bit nicer.

Well after four years i finally managed to get round to it

Forgot to add, also gave away a load of plants because as usual i sowed alot more than i have got room for!