What I did today 2012-2014

[GrimChili]

Got some shading for my newish 6x4 greenhouse (Wooooo!! Finally got a greenhouse!!) which I will install tomorrow.

Hammered in a onion foliage supporting frame my Dad made me (nice one Dad!) - NOTE: I don't know if you need to support onions but its my first year growing them and they look sorry for themselves!

Potted up some more chillies - 28 Plants so far!

Ate a chicken salad with homegrown tom thumb lettuces!

[toby6668]

Finished digging another bed and planted 3 rows of swift seed potatoes. I know it's ridiculously late but I thought I'd give it a go anyway. Still light enough to work at 10pm. Watered everything. Watched ace sunset and came home.

[Loudbarker1]

Picked out broad bean tops and steamed them for tea with omlette. Very nice - beany flavoured spinage.

[darcyvuqua]

planted these today and watered that was about as far as I got had to be home for 8 as my wife had to leave for work

[Tripmeup]

Over the weekend, I:

Planted out my Salsa Verde plants.
Planted out some tomatoes
Planted out the last of the beans.
Planted out some lettuce seedlings
Planted out my Parsnips
Planted out my Celeriac

[StephenH]

Turned and watered my most recently-built compost heap, which was stubbornly refusing to heat up. Probably impatient of me - it was only completed a few days ago - but it need watering anyway, being a bit dry, and the turning will have done it some good as well, as most of the grass was previously in one layer. It's now more evenly distributed amongst the tougher stuff.

[Florence Fennel]

Potted on another 3 weakly looking toms and hoped for the best. Pricked out 30 turnips into modules.

[VirginVegGrower]

Watered! Did manage to pitch a visit to a nursery and found me a muscat grapevine, wahoo. Must plant tomorrow.

[Hayley]

Transfered tomato & pepper plants into flower buckets and returned to my plastic 4 tier greenhouse (took shelves out so they have the full height).

Planted a very sorry looking asparagus 'root' not got much hope for it growing but it was only 25p

Gave everything the usual watering.

[Bren In Pots]

Decided its time to leave my 6 spare toms outside instead of lugging them back into the GH for the night.

[maisiem]

- potted up some more tomato plants
- potted on courgette
- planted out another calabrese as the one I planted last week didn't do well which is odd cause the two I planted the two previous weeks when it was colder are doing great.
- planted out another brussel sprout - same reason as above.
- planted out the last of the parsnips in beds 1 and 2.
- planted out the last of the beetroot into a 12" pot as I don't have any squares left in my beds.

Got to replant peas as something has got to them. Not sure if it's ants as I had a nest fairly close which we think we have got rid off now. Not slugs as not trails. Need to grow some more and this time I will cover them like the other three beds.

[JustPotteringAbout]

Saturday
Nothing of course, sat in garden and enjoyed my cholent in the sun with a home grown salad (well it was mostly weeds but b vulgaris leaves I cultivated)

Sunday
Went to an international market. Very pricey
Watered my neighbour's garden and vines as he is away on his yacht. His soil looks sandier than mine, looks to be lacking humic material and isn't draining well
Tackled chickweed but found later I'd no gram flour to make pakoras
Cleaned out greenhouse
Potted on pots of tomatoes into growbags

Yesterday
Harvested some rhubarb, chopped leaves up, steamed them and filtered into spraygun for arthropod control.
Tackled most of rest of chickweed (still no gram flour)
Swept back garden bit behind the house (calling it a patio would be a stretch)
Cleaned out chemicals box
Shifted bags of soil amendments into food bunker
Coated shed, bench and sticks
Turned compost heap
Wrote out bill of materials for garden repairs (ouch, that is going to hurt my bank balance! ...maybe next year)
Looking on the web for cheap sustainable soil amendments that I can;pt make myself.
Lots of web browsing for RHS L2 and L3 exams. Wrote out lots of notes and filled in my spreadsheet of plants, pests pathogens from examiners' reports. Some of the questions look relatively easy, particularly the science ones but then others which should be easy for an experienced gardener are exceptionally difficult for someone like me who doesn't know names of flowers. I'm not that into flowers.

Today
second coat on bench
Picked up used coffee grounds
Make a salad from garden weeds and b. vulgaris leaves
Still no gram flour so still a lot of chickweed in the refrigerator, I took my rucksack specially for it (though needed it for the coffee grounds)
Away to Tesco for gram flour, even though it's 20p more expensive per kg (well i'm totally set on having chicweed pakoras even if it is a 5km round trip walk).

[binley100]

Yesterday I planted out peppers , sowed beans of every description, munchen bier radishes , split my primrose clump, shared some with my mate and replanted the rest, received from my mate and planted some polyanthus (which were going to be binned by council ) and moved plants around at home.
Today me 'n him planted out excess toms , constructed an enclosure for the sweet cherry tree. then at home sorted out the stay at home plants (toms, chillies and peppers ) into final pots . Ran out of pots before it was the aubs turn

[marcofez]

Borlotti beans in. French beans "speedy" in. Watered polytunnel. Still lots to do!

[StephenH]

Had at the overgrown bits of the 'lawn' in the back garden with the scythe, then raked it all up, and put it on the most recently-built compost heap, along with some screwed-up newspaper, and bits of bramble, to provide a bit of structure.