What I did today 2012-2014

[Martin H]

Down the allotment:
- weeded some bindweed and couch grass that had re-grown, left the annual weeds alone to get a bit bigger
- planted out a packet of Freesia bulbs and 60 Gladioli corms, for cut flowers; broadcast some winter tares around them to keep them company
- sowed successional peas (Onward) and radishes
- marked out bed 8 and started digging out the perennial weeds before the rain set in.
At home, pricked out some Nicotiana that have been in the seed tray too long. Maybe they will be ok.

[chefgage]

picked the fist veg of the season - some curly kale to go with the sunday tea

[susieq100]

Weeded the over-wintering onions at the plot and fertilised them with some chicken poo pellets. Prepared the bed for the cauliflower plants, planted some more carrots and some parsnips, pottered about tidying up the paths and added some bed edging. The hail and torrential rain yesterday seems to have removed most of the blossom from the damson and greengage trees. B****r!!

[Norfolk drew]

Hi all today I planted out peas , some marfona potatoe seed , , marigolds and two rows of carrots and one of beetroot

[hellybore]

Sowed a few rows of radishes between the rows of perennial greens (which haven't come up yet, so I hope I got the lines straight!). Sowed some marigold seeds around the edges of a few beds. Cleaned out the water butt, which was nearly empty and had a nice collection of leaves and bits n bobs in the bottom. Fastened a piece of netting over the top after reading horror stories of drowned beasties, that will do until Mr H makes me a nice plywood lid for it. Transplanted a white comfrey plant from the back garden to the allotment - soon I will have a whole allotment full of it, no doubt!

[veggiechicken]

Went to an Unusual Plants Fair and bought.........yes...........plants!! An Allium Unifolium to add to my collection of weird and wonderful Alliums, a couple of Cardoons (just the name makes me smile) and 10 herb plants whose names I can't remember......a Myrtle, Mace, couple of mints, hyssop and , and.........

[binley100]

After a week of either cooking or falling asleep at work I managed to get a day at the lottie so I .....
planted out :-
purple podded peas
golden sweet mangetout
fildekraut cabbage
kalibos cabbage
black sunflowers
sweet peas
cape gooseberry (in the gh)
weeded round the peas, carrots and lettuce (in the gh)
emptied a bag of grass cuttings into my hot bed
picked rhubarb and a rather nice cauli .....
came home and potted on aubs and sowed a selection of seeds,
and finally did some cooking ........

[horticultural_hobbit]

sown some of Taffs Trail of Tears French bean, Scarlets Blue Lake and someone elses additional trail of tears.

Had a shout at the one sweetcorn baby that has chitted, but not getting any further. I only need one more!

Growled at the rotten running beans, the second batch.

[Tripmeup]

Sowed Perpetual Spinach
Sowed radish
Sowed Kohl rabbi
Made a wooden frame for a strawberry patch

[Loudbarker1]

Planted out beetroot and lettuce from hot huse with slug pellets scattered round. Putting them under cloche was only nod to hardening off.

Harvested fresh lettuce and PSB

[Currysniffa]

This morning in between showers I moved the blow-away out of greenhouse #1. I've clipped it to my compost bin. I'll use it to harden off plants now. Leaving me more space for tomatoes in the greenhouse \o/

[Bren In Pots]

I've sown Basil, Beetroot, Swede, mixed salad leaves and another pinch of spring onions seeds

[rustylady]

Potted on courgettes. Sowed PSB, savoy cabbage and Romanesco. Also potted up some more chitted French Beans.

[Scarlet]

Loads of weeding -not the veg patch. Getting the borders ready for my new plants that I got at the Malvern show.

Sowed PSB, Savoy cabbage

I'm going to do that later - after the school run.

[Martin H]

Cleared bed 8 on the allotment, ready for the Virginia Gold. Didn't think it was a good idea to plant out in this wind, though.
Got the shears onto the edges of the grass paths, scattered the soft new growth over the beds.
Started clearing bed 9.