What I did today 2012-2014

[mothhawk]

This morning I have dug up 5 clumps of catnip (the pink flowered type) from my front garden because it was too close to the street footpath and people were a bit nervous of walking past it when it was covered in bees, and replaced it with 3 clumps of anise hyssop, set a bit further in. That will still attract the bees, but it's much more upright and shouldn't lean out over the path. Underplanted with some new crocus corms.

Guerrilla planted 2 of the catnips where they won't be a nuisance, and put one in the back garden where the hyssop was.

Harvested runner beans and parsnips for lunch, pulled up the sweet peas, deadheaded the rudbeckia and turned the compost in the daleks.

[Penellype]

Removed dead leaves from tomatoes. Harvested tomatoes, courgettes and blueberries. Put some stakes in around the late potatoes (Sarpo Axona, just starting to produce small flower buds) in preparation for covering them as the forecasters are saying it is going to get much colder from Wednesday. Not yet decided quite how to go about this, but I have another 2 days to experiment with it.

[Martin H]

Picked my first cauliflower.
Marked out the next bed on the allotment and started clearing it.
Spent what seemed like hours listening to a new chap on the allotment site who wouldn't shut up and let me dig.
Paid my 2014 subs (£47 for a full plot).
Came home and sowed some sweet peas and some cauliflowers. Cleaned out the cold frame, which involved fixing the dodgy sliding panes as well as some satisfying snail crunching.

[rustylady]

Gave the orange berried pyracantha in the back garden a much needed haircut. I can see the berries properly now, not that they will last long - the blackbirds have already found them.

Pulled up the past-it wallflowers in the front garden and chopped some leaves off the flax that has self-seeded right next to the front door.

[veggiechicken]

Cleared the tomatoes out of one GH;
Moved a few peppers and pepinos from that GH into another GH
Potted up some spring cabbage into pots to grow on a bit more;
Planted Winter gem lettuce seedlings into troughs and buckets for the GH;
Potted up rooted seedlings of Apple, Basil and Moroccan mints and Greek and ordinary basil;
Took more cuttings of the Barbados thyme (or whatever its called - thanks Snakeshack )
Picked up more windfall apples;
Picked some wishywashy yellow raspberries;
Picked rainbow radish seed pods to dry for seeds;
and ermmmmmmmmm, I've forgotten what else.......
Good day for pottering and indulging myself in herb sniffing

[Dorothy rouse]

Cleared some brassicas, didn't know what they were! And they been nibbled, dug over bed and sewed green manure. Pulled up beetroot and have cooked. Did a bit of maintenance on path. Am determined to be more organised next year, and not to resort to putting things all over plot. Not a good plan

Oh yes, placed my potato order for next year! Not doing so many next year, Rocket and Picasso !

Dinner cooking, apart from meat, all home grown! Including pud!

DottyR


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[Snadger]

Added some hoss muck to a small bed, tickled it into surface and planted the last 50 Japanese onion sets i will be planting this year. Three lots of various onions now planted.
Picked a few tomatoes and a bag of calabrese spears. Calabrese has done really well for me this year and i've been eating it for at least six weeks with still more to come.
I was a bit annoyed that rats had nibbled my seed potatoes in the shed that i had kept for next year. I've now taken the rest out of the shed and they are in the car until I decide where to put them.
I was supposedly drying off french beans in their seed pods but they have decided to utilise the moisture in the pods and start germinating!

[Florence Fennel]

Had an enormous clear up. Cleaned out the stayput so there are now only 3 big chilli plants and some aubretia and aquilegia seeds sown today. Remind me to get some sweet pea seeds to start off in there. Planted 3 more kinds of onion sets and cleared the pumpkin bed. I've also tackled the borage that had completely taken over one part of the garden! Tired now.

[rustylady]

Barrowed enough horse poo from the main gate to my allotment to fill a Dalek. Back aches now, but chuffed to beat the greedy bu@@er who normally takes all of it to it this time.

[stella]

Had an enormous clear up. Cleaned out the stayput so there are now only 3 big chilli plants and some aubretia and aquilegia seeds sown today. Remind me to get some sweet pea seeds to start off in there. Planted 3 more kinds of onion sets and cleared the pumpkin bed. I've also tackled the borage that had completely taken over one part of the garden! Tired now.

Omg is it time to plant the aquilegia now??? I was going to wait until spring

[daviddevantnhisspiritwife]

Lugged the pumpkin down near to the house, phew. Cleared the vines of the pumpkin and the weary courgettes. Still a couple going ok though so I left them to it.

Cleared the stems of the 1st lot of container french beans to make way for other things

Tidied away more outdoor toms and collected the last of the greens and put them under glass to ripen.

Harvested the pathetic sweetcorn and cleared the stems for composting.

Moved some more Pak Choi into containers and relocated them
Moved some Turnips into containers and relocated them
Checked the Turnips in the ground were not decimated - they are swelling nicely.
Moved some Broccoli Raab into container and some in the ground

[Two_Sheds]

Turned my attention to the school's cutting border, which is becoming overrun with bentgrass (like couch, but thinner)

I'm forking out the bentgrass carefully so as not to disturb the flowers that are growing, and feeding it to the guinea pigs, or bagging it up like leafmould (it'll keep on growing if it goes on the compost heap).

As I clear a patch, I immediately plant something, or mulch the bare soil with chopped up greenery

[Greenfingerpaula]

Moved some more Pak Choi into containers and relocated them

Did you sow them with a view to potting on then david, I sowed pak choi and they are sprouting lovely, wasn't too sure whether to leave them or transplant the seedlings into pots , say 6 per pot to give them space?

[Deano's "Diggin It"]

Harvested the last of the "Sweetcorn" ripped up n composted the stalks!

Large bed 1 now totally clear! Edged it off with some nice fancy stainless steel corrugated edging I bummed from work!

Harvested the last of the broccoli side shoots, cleared n composted the stalks from them too!

Large bed 2 half empty!

Japanese onion sets, shallots n garlic have arrived, my weekend off, so a major gardening weekend it will be! Sorted!

[Snadger]

Dug up some more Maxine tatties...........