What I did today 2012-2014

[Mikey]

What were you digging VC, Mississippi mud pie?

[veggiechicken]

I wish, Mikey, then I wouldn't be so hungry
You've seen my garden - just continuing the clearance that I started last year. By the end of this year it will be unrecognisable

[Mikey]

If you've been rolling in the mud all day, I'd say it won't be the only one!!!!

[Tripmeup]

Sowed a load of seeds I received in the post from the seed swap

[Scarlet]

Hungarian black wax chilli one of them by any chance??
Just sowed a couple of early toms - Pantano, one of my favourites!

[Tripmeup]

Hungarian black wax chilli one of them by any chance??
Just sowed a couple of early toms - Pantano, one of my favourites!

Might just be

[marcofez]

Put all my seed potato's in egg boxes to chit!
Then watched my hometown team "The Posh" (Peterborough United) win on penalties to go to Wembley!

[Penellype]

Spent ages positioning my raised bed so that I could get the steps in to cut the hedge at one end and still get a potato bag in between the other end and the fence. Filled it with a mixture of soil and compost.

Transplanted some broccoli which was in the way of phase 2 of the plan - to replace a DIY raised bed made of log roll which is collapsing after about 12 years service with a proper rigid plastic one. This will have the added advantage that it will be narrower. I used angle iron hammered in at the corners of 3ft paving slabs to secure the log roll, which made the original bed too wide for comfort when up against a wall. I'm making some assumptions here - that I can shift that volume of soil (I reckon about 500 litres, and it is soil, not compost, originally from turf that I stripped from a garden that was mostly lawn), that I can untangle the wires that I secured the log rolls with, and that I can get the angle iron out from between the paving slabs. Its one thing banging it in with a hammer, could be quite another to pull it out after 12 years... The other problem is where to put the excess soil, but I'll deal with that one when I find out how much of it there is.

Also sowed more lettuces in the propagator.

[RaptorUK]

Had an enjoyable 4 hours today at my allotment digging and removing weeds from my main path, the usual suspects, Couch grass, Horse tail, Docks. Half done today so happy with progress.

[hamamelis]

Went shopping to get some seed potatoes, having missed the local potato day due to work. I had garden vouchers, so I was forced, forced I tell you, to buy some peas and another rhubarb plant to make it up to the proper value.

Came back, and planted out the new rhubarb and a morello cherry that's been patiently waiting for a reasonably dry day for over a month. Still not fixed the shed window, though now at least I've got some perspex on order- I got lucky, one of my neighbours' sheds has collapsed entirely, and the back's fallen off another (a shed newer, more expensive and less exposed than mine- I don't know how that works either).

Did a bit more digging over on the new plot half- it's slow going, as there's so many daft plants with deep roots and runners everywhere. Dug over one of the beds on the original plot too- felt a little smug comparing the worm population of the bit I've been cultivating to the bit I haven't. I have splendid big wiggly worms, and lots of them.

Finally, I sat in the sun. I even took my jacket off!

[AllInContainers]

Last night I repotted 8 of my 12 heathers. Not a lot happened after that other than me falling asleep at about 7:30, and not waking till about 3:00am

[Noosner]

Sowed some land cress seed in a big container in the garden. It's one my favourite crops. You can totally ignore it and it seems to grow at any and all times of the year.

[Mumbles]

Just been and raked my latest bed as all the rain has completely compacted it, will have to add lots to it if I don't want my plants to think they've been cemented in!


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[darcyvuqua]

I've sown some heinz tomato seeds and micro tomato seeds.

Washed and cut two old milk bottles for sowing some herbs tomorrow


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[Brom]

Spent the morning putting the finishing touches to our new chicken run and coup. Added some hinges and a clasp to the coup. Painted the new woodwork on the coup and the door to the chicken run with creocote. I was going to dig a trench all round the run so that I could bury the mesh but my back is really not up to it yet. Hopefully will be finished before the end of the month when the chickens arrive...really looking forward to that.