What I did today 2012-2014

[GrimChili]

Got trapped in the greenhouse by a massive downpour complete with some lightning and thunder.

Collected a load of rain water, I need a water butt!

[Florence Fennel]

Planted out cauliflower and red cabbage, fed toms with comfrey tea and tied in stems. Pricked out basil. Taking a break now while the weather decides what it's going to do!

[Two_Sheds]

- met my new 'clients' on MG scheme. Identified a plot for them to grow veg on, dug the thistles, couch & docks out, and got it all planted up with seedlings from my greenhouse, and potatoes I've had started in pots

- had a look-round the next garden on my list. It's much weedier than this one was, and covered in builder's rubbish too. I'll get the owner to clear it and cover it for a few weeks while I get some veggies started in modules for him

- went up the lotty and despaired at the drought. Squash & beans are dying despite cans & cans of water from the tap: it's just draining away through the sand. Today's promised rain didn't materialise, and now we're not due any till the weekend. I have planted out dozens of things because rain was forecast, and now I have to water every day to stop it all dying.


Really, really fed up. I haven't even picked a single broad bean yet this year, it's ridiculous. Cold springs and wet summers do not fill the freezer

[rustylady]

Took the grandchildren to the allotment to plant sweetcorn and ended up making a run for home because of the pouring rain

Sweetcorn will be planted tomorrow.

[susieq100]

'Played' in the greenhouse most of the morning. Cucumbers in their final position, Floridity tomatoes potted on and in their final position, outdoor cukes outdoors 'toughening up' - they can go back in later, brassicas potted on.

[Tripmeup]

Potted on some cabbage plants..
Potted on some PSB plants.
Sowed white and red spring onions
Sowed some swede
Sowed some Pak Choi

[VirginVegGrower]

Potted on some further sweetcorn seedlings, swept out the greenhouse, watered and fed the tomatoes/peppers. Mr VVG dog proofing the garden with small gauge trellis behind the flower border, which makes it wonderfully private and I plan to grow climbers through it. Gives some structure to the garden as well.

[Likac66]

Potted the tomatoes into their final position in the greenhouse. Was going to put the cucumbers in morrisons buckets but I think that's too big a jump in pot size so they've gone into intermediate size pots for now.

Potted on cucamelon seedlings and basil. Finished clearing out all the rubbish and "stuff" that had accumalated so the greenhouse looks a lot less cluttered.

Emptied first new potato bag - disappointing crop. They were "swift" and were planted at the beginning of February in the greenhouse. I've got two more bags so they will be left for another couple of weeks at least.

[Snadger]

Cut the lawn and got ripped to bits cutting briar roses out of my rhododendron. Lottie day tomorrow so will knock nine bells out of it no doubt!

[Nes]

Planted out sweet corn, weeded onions and garlic, sowed beetroot, spinach and chard, netted strawberries as they're fattening up nicely and will probably start to colour soon. Furtled new potatoes, found only tiny ones, so watered well to hopefully encourage a bit of swelling.

[hellybore]

Planted out lettuce seedlings to fill the gaps in direct-sown ones.
Sowed basil and dill seeds.
Sowed californian poppy and love-in-a-mist seeds around the edges of veg beds.
Chopped some comfrey up and stuffed in a bucket to make comfrey tea.
Wind blowing a gale so tied a knot in broken guy line on blowaway and legged it back home. Hope blowaway still there in the morning!
Picked up a bundle of Gardeners World mags from a freecycler and settled down to some serious couch gardening!

[Rocket god]

Built the greenhouse I've just bought second hand, got it on its base I made, now just 10 panes left to put in it.. Cant wait to get my stuff in it.

[Snadger]

Took the makeshift bench out of the greenhouse. weeded the greenhouse beds. Set the bench up on the side of my shed.
Weeded one of my other greenhouse beds and planted eight plum tomatoes and a cucumber to go with the othwer six tomatoes on the other side and the grapevine overhead.
Also sowed some climbing french beens in the gable end. Hope they perform as well as the ones I had there last year.
Moved all the toms,peppers and aubs onto a small table ready for transplanting into beds when i get time.
Watered all greenhouse plants.

[Tripmeup]

Planted out spaghetti squash
Weeded onion beds
Spread some fresh compost from the bin

[Martin H]

Planted out assorted bedding plants and herbaceous perennial seedlings that had been cluttering up my patio table.
Put parasol into hole of said table in case summer arrives.
Down allotment, took the shears to the parts I haven't brought into cultivation yet. It'll buy me a few weeks.
Admired the swelling onions, the about-to-flower potatoes, the re-sown runner beans, the sweetcorn and the brassicas growing away nicely.
Had a cup of tea in the warm evening sunshine in my garden.