What I did today 2012-2014

[Martin H]

Busy day!
Up early to pick up a new shed, take it down the allotment and put it up, dodging the showers.

Planted out my chitted dwarf french beans under cloches.

Also the previous plotholder had left a green metal obelisk thingy, so I covered it in plastic netting and planted my chitted climbing french beans at the foot of it. It's a bit risky in case we get a late frost, so I'll chit a few more this week just to be safe.

Dug the rest of Bed 5 on the lottie ready for sweetcorn and maincrop potatoes. Bed 6 tomorrow!

Potted on my free Heinz tomatoes which are doing nicely on the kitchen windowsill.

[binley100]

Fed next doors menagerie (chooks, jinnies and a wabbit), full english, seed and plant swap, guided tour, lovely people, lots of chat, potted on, sowed seeds.......ran out of compost.....

[Yorkshire.Dave]

Had a nice day sat in the sun in the garden...filled 30 of the 30cm wilkinsons pots with MPC ready for the chillies a bit later this Month and lined them all up in the polytunnel ready...
Put 6 tomato plants into large planters for my Dad so had to fill all those pots too before adding the plants...
Checked the heated prop and my 2 Dragons egg cucumbers and black tomatoes have sprouted in under a week :-)

Potted on a few moruga scorpions as the roots were showing in their current pots...

Just waiting to clear everything out of the house now and into the tunnel..

[Tripmeup]

Sowed Beetroot
Sowed turnips purple top
Sowed coriander
Sowed rocket
Sowed some leaf salad mixes
Transplanted Red baron onions( grown from seed) to ground from modules
Earthed up potatoes growing in bags

[Irish-Veg]

Yeah the whole ridges thing was my dads idea, he kept saying if I didnt do ridges nothing would grow which i know isnt true but anyway :l I have a 1/4 acre plot which I own and i only did a few ridges, ive direct sewn others and im also using old tyres to make large planters for other plants that will be planted out later on in the year

Oh and the carrott/wildflower thing... I broadcast sowed carrotts which were blight resistant and i mixed in a wildflower mix with it, partly so they'd space out a tiny bit but also I saw this feature in a magazine where this girl sewed wildflower mix with carrotts as a fly-detterant, im only experimenting really and the flowers are pretty anyways

[marcofez]

Saturday-Planted out "Ailsa Craig" seed sown onions, "Banana" shallots, "little Gem" lettuce, "Lakeland" lettuce, cos lettuce. Some foxglove flowers.
Had a general tidy up. Lots more to do!

[SarzWix]

Last night I sowed beans into 5 sets of root-trainers, including:

Cobra
Cosse Violette
Purple Giant
Kentucky Wonder
Trail of Tears
Major Cook's
B&B
Sijlinde
Mogex
Cocagne
Tarbais
Blue & White
Bird's Egg
Bridgewater
Black Croation
Soldier
Aquilon

Also sowed 12 pots of Minipop sweetcorn and 9 of Lark sweetcorn, 2 trays of various sunflowers, a tray of gypsophila and a tray of poppies.

[Noosner]

My peas are up About 4" high. They are Champion of England and last year they were impressive. I grew them at lottie and also in my garden, a real snail squat. But C of E grew faster than the snails could eat them!

Also potted on my legions of tommies, a 20 minute job that took 3 hours.

Am trying cucs for the first time, on our 3 large west facing windowsills (Cucino and Telegraph Improved). Enjoying the daily tendril action as they orientate themselves within the Heath Robinson structures I've built for them to climb, though one of them has fallen in love with the cord of the blind instead...

[mrgrower]

Heres what i've done today

Repaired the shed door.
Did a little video blog that I will put on my youtube channel.
Planted out my runner beans.
Weeded the potato patch and back filled a drainage trench I dug.

[sammy_roser]

Had a little go at building a path to run down my garden, it will by no means be completly straight and level but it will be my first path so I will love it Besides I will always be able to level it off again in future years.

Now I've decided to weed the patio, although it feels more like I am mowing the patio why did I let it get this bad?

[Lisamcflisa]

went to a car boot...

then..

re planted tomato seeds, with the hope these actually grow.
wood stained a wooden crate that i got from my grandad, its got deposit 5 shillings on the side, lined it, and its now planted with chard
put a new pain of glass in my cold frame, because, gawd knows how but my son managed to throw his xbox controller out his window and smash it, he said he was trying to steer a car in a race..tut..
planted some salad leaves.
ermmm, thats bout it i think, oh and gave my friend loads of seeds

[Likac66]

Just potted on 8 black cherry, 1 money maker and 1 gardener's delight tomato plants, a couple of bog-standard courgettes, a melon plant, and a couple of "taxi" courgettes.

Also potted on 8 calabrese seedlings.

[out in the cold]

Slug hunted.

Made breakfast and sat in garden for first time this year having a cuppa and an egg sandwich whilst basking in full sunlight, feet up perched on side of raised bed. It was lovely.

Shifted soil from the pile I dug out my lawn, broke up the sods and crumbled it into fine dust. Doesn't look that much, but it took most of the middle part of the day and i am now fairly close to resowing the lawn

[hawthorns]

sowed 4 rows nantes carrots, edged grass paths, watered coldframe, watered carrot seedlings and parsnips beds very dry. transferred toms to greenhouse.

[toby6668]

Loaded trailer with horse muck and dumped it at the new allotment. Stared at nettles, thistles and docks for a while before eventually starting bastard trenching. Quick pint and a butty at the pub then a sneaky kip. Back of to do more digging in the evening sunshine.