What I did today 2012-2014

[Nicos]

25 rosemary cuttings but this time dipped in hormone rooting powder then into compost .
( normally I bung them into water - then leave them to root..then die!)

Fingers crossed this time they will work!!

[RaptorUK]

Roofing and guttering today . . . and now I'm finally ready to collect rain water

Really pleased that the reality came out just like I planned and drew it in Google Sketchup

[Snadger]

Roofing and guttering today . . . and now I'm finally ready to collect rain water

Really please that the reality came out just like I planned and drew it in Google Sketchup

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It will probably not rain again now for three month! Lol

Might please some people though!

[Snadger]

What I did today part deux!

I started to write about my gardening exploits today when I suddenly remebered I'd left the chooks roaming around the plot. I let them out cos it was a sunny day!

Anyway, after a return journey to the plot which is 5 mile away and the look of consternation on the chooks faces when they thought they'd been left out as fox fodder, I return to my explots!

Sowed swedes in modules, beetroot in modules, potted on some leeks, cleaned out part of my other greenhouse and erected a foldable table for seedlings,harvested swedes,brussel sprouts and collected the last of my stored onions, pruned back my chrysanths to ground level, sowed parsnips in a perforated water butt after emeoving wees and stirring up the compost. The water but had a courgette in last year with loads of manure. It will be interesting to see whether my parsnips aquire forked roots because of it?:confused

[RaptorUK]

It will probably not rain again now for three month! Lol

Might please some people though!

Funnily enough, that's what I said to my sister today . . . "no rain till October now I am ready to collect it . . . "

[Two_Sheds]

Y'day was positively springlike, so I started the gardening year

- finally planted out my new honeysuckle
- spread the 3 small heaps of dogpoo compost among the flower beds: lovely rich black compost it is
- dug up & moved some clumps of snowdrops & iris reticulata
- pruned the hated forsythia, hopefully cutting off most of the flower buds (the wood is useful as a frame for my honeysuckles)
- started pulling grass & dandelions out of the flower beds, gave to guinea pigs
- dug up, split & replanted the arum lily
- fed the fish
- found some slugs under the stepping stones, put them in the comfrey tea bottles
- dug up & transplanted foxgloves
- had to water the greenhouse, which is full to the brim already, before I even start seed-sowing
- started chitting broad beans & peas
- pulled out 5 buckets of chickweed & deadnettle at the lotty
- cut down the green manures, before they flower. Chopped roughly, left on soil surface as a mulch
- transplanted some spares into the communal flower bed
- planted out a tray of garlic and 2 of Japanese onions

[Currysniffa]

Y'day I set 3 bags of rocket potatoes going in the greenhouse also some spinach in a plastic trough and started some onion sets off in mpc.

[Tripmeup]

Potatoes:

Started chitting..
Mizen (Early Main)
Lady Christl
May Queen

[shellyanne1987]

Today I have sown carrot seed into the raised bed, my radishes have started to sprout, planted my hardened off pea plants, and sown broccoli and courgette into seed trays on my window suns been shining reminding me springs on the doorstep


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[Dorothy rouse]

Bought 3, 75 L bags of compost from Asda, for £10.00. Took it to Plot, it's really very nice quality, topped up 2 beds, and chucked some on the new beds, more needed, will be weekend now.

Planted out my 'free' Gala mini apple, 1 redcurrant and a couple of gooseberry 'twigs'!

Put some netting over Broad beans, think the pigeons or something has had a little nibble, but they are looking good.

Had a chat with Lottie friend, oh and my friendly secaturs fell apart.

Now I am aching!

[hamamelis]

Planted some early onward peas yesterday, in the lean-to. I've still not cleared it out enough to have proper space in there.

Went down to the lottie in the glorious sun today, finally replaced the shed window and did a bit more digging on plot b. I've finally decided on a proper plan for the plot; I'm going to have to take out two mid-sized plum trees (totally unproductive last year, and there's another one anyway, plus several more hanging over the fence from the park and one of a nicer variety on plot a ) and a hazel; they're just taking up far too much light and space. It's going to be a lot of work and I hope there's enough nice days to get it all done before spring proper kicks in! I already have a large pile of silly trees and shrubs, waiting for a dry enough day for a bonfire. Not much big enough fore firewood, but too much and too thick to compost in a reasonable time.

Also advantage of the dry to paint the wooden chair and table left by the previous allotment owner, it really needed it. It is starting to look a bit more 'wanted' down there now at least.

[Penellype]

Sowed some more salad crops in the propagator. Moved the spinach out of the garage as it is germinating, and rigged up a fleece cover so it doesn't get too much of a shock. Put together my new "garden track" walkway so hopefully I can now walk on my lawn without turning it into a mudbath.

Noticed the sun now manages to reach the growhouse, so I'm going to have to be careful not to let it get too hot.

[AllInContainers]

Came home to discover I'd had a delivery yesterday - but they'd hidden the package. 6 blueberry bushes (Dixi, Spartan, Gold Traub and 3 x Pink Lemonade). I had enough ericaceous compost to pot three of them up, but the others will have to wait a while. The less pleasant discovery was that my new Jostaberry bush has croaked - VERY disappointed about that. Two branches just fell off while I was moving the pot, and appeared to have been dead a while. I need to dig back in my records to find out who I got it from ...

Aside from that, more shuffling and shifting of pots and scratching of head. Trying to figure out what fits best where. It is comingn together, but does seem to be taking an eternity .... but then again, that's why I'm doing the garden the way I am (predominantly trees, bushes and perennials) so I don't have to do it all again next year. As if I didn't already have enough plants to try and fit in, I also ordered some skyscraper lily bulbs today too *sigh*

[snakeshack]

Shovelled out the deep litter in the chicken run and took up the lottie to compost, filled up 2 of the cubic meter builders bags.retied apple and pear trees to training framework and pruned gooseberry and red currant overhanging path.Emptied 3 Dalek compost bins and a builders bag onto 5of the raised beds.then home ,bath,dinner and some home made cider


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[binley100]

Planted out my first lot of peas in lottie gh border, sowed carrots in lottie gh border, weeded round my garlic and onions, weeded another bed, turned ond of the compost heaps, did some harvesting,