What I did today 2012-2014

[daviddevantnhisspiritwife]

Today I mainly muttered about the incessant rain. Other than that I watered the toms and picked some stuff.

Yesterday I made a net tunnel for the kale behind the shed (to replace it's fleece coat). Picked loads of beans. Pulled a few weeds, lifted the onions and put them to dry. Retro fitted some extra support for the runners to hopefully prevent total collapse when the wind gets up. Meant to sow stuff, did not.

[horticultural_hobbit]

Harvested half a dozen courgettes and rescued another builders bag.

[Dorothy rouse]

Here you go Tiberius

Oh, the grand old Duke of York,
He had ten thousand men,
He marched them up to the top of the hill and he marched them down again.

And when they were up they were up

And when they were down they were down

And when they were only half way up, they were neither up nor down.

Oh my goodness ! Brings back memories !

Thanks tho, now in my brain,and I to will be singing it all evening!


DottyR

[Florence Fennel]

Memories for me too, Campfire Singing with Brownies, I couldn't do the actions to the Grand Old Duke of York now, my knees wouldn't stand it!

Adjusted the covers on the raised beds so my son can easily strim around them now. Dug turf from the edges of the lawn and found the path! Had a general clear up and more tomorrow!

[rustylady]

I still sing a lot of the old nursery rhymes to my grandchildren. Sang them to their Mums and Dads too, but they can't always remember the words.

Don't seem to have done very much today apart from cooking and washing up

[jayjaybee]

Harvested half a dozen courgettes and rescued another builders bag.

Don't see many builders around here carrying a bag! Do they breed them different in Brum?
Sorry Hobbit couldn't resist. I was surprised VC didn't get in there before me

[veggiechicken]

I have a penchant for Builder's bags too - especially the Gucci ones

What did I do today - after the rain stopped about 5pm
I potted on some seedling cabbage and Chinese cabbage and some Atena Courgette - just to see if I can grow one with 20 courgettes - like the ones being shown on here somewhere!! Also put about 50 teeny little garlic bulbils into 50 teeny little modules. I'm not going to waste space and compost on something that may do nothing!!
Planted up some rooted cuttings of 5 varieties of mint and rosemary and a big sweaty armpit of tomato!!
Scattered some mystery seeds in a bare patch of garden - and said Hello to some seedlings of the last lot of mystery flower seeds that I threw there. I do like a bit of suspense So rewarding when you can identify them

[Penellype]

Collected a couple of bucketfuls of rain water for my blueberry bush (its been incredibly dry here and I don't have room for a water butt so I have to collect water "by hand" and store it in a dustbin). Picked slugs off the cocoashell (I thought they were'nt supposed to like it) and snails off the wall. Harvested 2 courgettes and a bowl full of tomatoes. Picked caterpillars off the kohl rabi, carrots and pak choi and decided (probably too late) to cover the carrots with fleece to keep the butterflies off.

Yesterday, having noticed my carefully netted broccoli seedlings had been munched by slugs, I went and bought some reels of copper tape and taped round the drip trays. No further damage today

[JustPotteringAbout]

All sore with chest pains and out of breath again this morning ... possibly from fungal spores from pile of decayed branches and foliage at the community garden I was clearing Friday. The rotters, there are many years of dumped tree branches

Own garden
Weeded a bit.
Harvested strawbs, kale, hinnomaki, rasps, tomatoes, fava, broccoli
potted ends of strawb runners and cut back foliage
Composter is packed to the top again and loads of stuff in compost queue.

At community garden
Binned a wasps' nest, the second of I don't know how many on property.
Called a mate to seal up my PPE and standby in case I was allergic.

Found another wasps' nest in an old shed roof between timber and bitumen sheeting stuff.

Continued chopping up semi-decayed branches to a size the council will take. Loads of broken glass, broken down polythene, so the decayed material is useless as a mulch.
Researching, or rather googling wasp traps, wasp nest destruction etc

[JustPotteringAbout]

I'm always on the look out for, finding and taking home escaped builders bags.

[rustylady]

Lots of weeding. Pulled up and composted the calabrese that has now finished.

Gasped at how much the pumpkin plants have grown.

Lifted the last of the red onions (Red Baron) and brought them home to dry.

Picked the last of the broad beans and cut them back hard to see if they will re-shoot. Tops composted.

Picked a good handful of french beans (Cobra).

[Guykp57]

What do you do with builders bags, I have a couple.

[horticultural_hobbit]

What do you do with builders bags, I have a couple.

Fill them with leaves over autumn, to create leaf mold.

[Snadger]

Picked a carrier bag full of yellow french beans. These have been a really fast maturing crop this year. Also took home four leeks.

[MrsCordial]

Tackled the weeds around peas, beans, lettuces, gooseberries and raspberries. Things had got to dispiriting proportions. After weeding I put newspaper or cardboard around the plants.