What I did today 2012-2014

[Martin H]

Today I'm entertaining the relatives - just popped in here for a moment of sanity.

[Feral007]

Today I'm entertaining the relatives - just popped in here for a moment of sanity.

A moment of sanity.....your rel's must be as bad as mine!

Watering the garden. Dry as a chip here. Hoping the neighbour will start slashing the blue weed in the paddock for me today or tomorrow.

Need to plant out some seedlings and let them try their luck in this weather. And Mow, lots of Mow.

[Snadger]

Had a couple of hours at the allotment today. Lit the wood buner and burned the chopped up kitchen unit I stripped out yesterday from my renovation project house.
Suitably warmed in the greenhouse I potted on 16 of the surviving pot leeks that I grew from leek grass.
Stripped a load of tomato plants out from my 'ell' shaped greenhouse which has a peach tree growing in the gable end.
Made a fan framework of canes and tied the peach tree branches to the canes to try and train them into positions they weren't particularily keen on!
Exhaust started blowing on car (Wonderful, without a car at Crimbo!) while it was still on lis last legs I decided to go and purchase the turkey crown and gammon as I didn't fancy carrying it the three mile from the shops if the car gave up the ghost!

These things are sent to try us........Mery Christmas!

[Feral007]

Took a small amount of rubbish to the tip (made it with 9 mins to spare), put the chooks out of the garden, roused on them soundly.
Put my clothes on to wash, and mowed a small amount of hilly grass.

Daughter tells me we've run out of water. Lunch.

Go to the river, hook up longer pipe, hook up pump. Pump starts and cuts out.
Check pipes under road and up hill.
Call son out to help. Cut pipes, put possible bits in car. Go to river. It's the pump not the pipes.
Edited to add: Got chooks out of garden AGAIN! And cussed up a storm at them.

Pack up - go to neighbours. Beg. Ahhh, yes, that would be right. Someone turned the flipping fuel line off well I never turn it off so why would I check?

Back to the river. Half the days jobs now abandoned. Knew you'd be wanting to know it all

[marcofez]

Went out to the allotment for a walk and some fresh air. Bought a box of veg peelings and leaves with me to chuck on to the compost bins. Had a nose around, surprised I was the only nutter there Went back home got in car and went to garden centre for some compost and perlite to sow my onion seeds in. That's tomorrow's job before going off to work nights!

[horticultural_hobbit]

Prepped yoghurt pots for experimental chilli sowing


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[BertieFox]

Got the heated staging going in the polytunnel (Two Wests and Elliott heating mat beneath the metal top) and then sowed following in little pots of damp vermiculite, covered with plastic tops: Pak Choi, turnip greens (Brassica raab) Novantina, baby forcing turnips Market Express, spring onions (3 types, red, round and long). I will prick on at seed leaf stage into modules, just in time for the really freezing winter weather which will wipe them all out. I do this every year but never learn! We are all such optimists!

[horticultural_hobbit]

Sown some early experimental chillies and one bell variety.

[Snadger]

Went to the allotment with the intention of doing something constructive. after sorting my chooks.
Loads of polytunnels blowing in the wind and my greenhouse lilted to one side with every gust of wind.
Lit the woodburner as I thought I would just ignore strong winds and crack on.
After a short while,"sod this" says I, I have no intention of being inside a glass greenhouse when it implodes.
Now back safely in front of my pooter!

[chilli_grower]

new raised bed soon

I dug part of my lawn up for a new raised bed this morning!!!

Took me about an hour. The ground was lovely and soft.

it will be 6 x 4.5 ft roughly. Any bigger and I cant reach the middle of it! re used the turf elsewhere on the lawn.

I turned the soil over beneath, I think it needs to be broken down some more, as is a little clumpy...

[Bigmallly]

Spent the biggest part of daylight preparing the ground for the Kite to be re-homed.This involved removing about 50 Raspberry canes & cutting down a bladdy tree.............oh mine aching back.........need a hot bath now...........

[Penellype]

Spent the whole night and all day listening to the wind howling while planning next year's crop positions. Debated covering the whole garden with a veggiemesh cage, but then remembered I do need to let insects in to pollinate some things. Back to the drawing board

[MrsCordial]

I got outside for the first time in a while today. It's glorious here - blue skies, sun. DS (4!) and I pulled up a lot of dead sweetpea vines that really get in the way once everything starts to grow again, and I pulled up the last few green bean stalks. It's looking okay in there atm, don't think vast amounts of work will be needed once I start to sow. It was really fantastic to be out there

[lottie dolly]

been to check on the plots,came back with compost and cell trays,my intentions are to sow the first lots of alium seeds,i got onions globo and bedfordshire champions,plus banana shallots,leeks to follow ,

[Penellype]

Probably being a tad over enthusiastic here, but sowed peas (for pea shoots) lettuce (little gem and lollo rossa), pak choi and spinach in my propagator in the hope of some early salads in a few weeks time. The intention is to grow everything on in the grow light garden in my utility room.

Harvested a couple of leeks, some small carrots and some tomatoes and made a risotto for tea