What I did today 2012-2014

[Chiiliwilly]

Wish I had a plot, I'm in Glossop!


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[Currysniffa]

Y/day: 9am I was down the lotty. Dug over my new strawberry bed. Pulled up the last of the sprouts and then dug that bed over. Dug up some parsnips from my a pals plot ( he said I could I didn't steel them!) Council inspector came to take a look round our site. Its the first time anyone can remember this happening (wonders what there up too!) Moved garlic and strawberries down to lotty greenhouse (needed the room in the one at home). In the afternoon I moved the tomatoes out of the heated prop. Also moved my shallots I'm growing from seed out of the other hp. In the greenhouse I sowed spring onions some more shallots and a tray of beetroot. Last of all I sowed some lettuce I got as a freebee from DT Browns in a planter. Off down the lotty now. Peace out.

[starloc]

Aldi strikes again....
This time it was red sun shallots,2 boxes of them, and a couple of boxes of strawberries , florence and cambridge fav. the florence were fine but the others had rotted to a mush in the bag inside, I always swear I wont buy them from Aldi as I have never had much luck with there strawberries.

After planting the remains of the strawberries, I decided to divide my red hot pokers, I bought them from Aldi a few years ago planted one per flower bucket and now the buckets were full of plants, so 8 from each bucket a lot of new plants , in nice fresh compost, they should be much happier now.

Re potted a grape vine that I bought from morrisons last year, not the normal ones they do but a small one with 3 cuttings to a pot, now in 3* 15 litre pots.

Shallots will be need to wait till I get more compost in the morning on the way to work

[george356]

Pricked out 12 Pepper Hot Cayenne, 9 Pepper Patio Sizzle, sorted out pelargonium cuttings, listened to radio while I did it

[RaptorUK]

. . . it's a bit like playing musical stone piles

I'm using my stones as a base for the path and putting wood chippings on top to make it comfortable under foot . . .

. . . would like to think I'll get it finished tomorrow, but the Rugby is on at 3pm

Missed the Rugby too busy playing musical stone piles . . . got all the stones moved and put down another 4m of edging, and laid another couple of meters of stones and chippings . . . maybe I'll get the path finished tomorrow.

[Maddiesaur]

Community day at our lotty today, met some more people and discussed the things people had had most success with over the past few years. As expected, last year was mostly a flop, bar peas, courgettes, kale, brussels, potatoes and beets.

Started to weed and pull the grass out of my strawberry bed to investigate it further. The soil was heavenly and it was easily to pull things by hand. Discovered the runners have set themselves to ground, also discovered a couple more "fruit things" - no idea what they are until they start to look more lively. Renetted the whole area.

Pulled old bed markers, small posts and twine etc.

Was given half a dozen each of white and red onion sets to get going on the windowsills.

Another productive day. I'm enjoying these few hours of pottering. Since we are a few weeks behind temps wise, I've the time to enjoy prepping all the beds and I intend to carry on doing just that

[Nicos]

weeded 2/3 of the strawberry patch.
Me thinks the whole thing needs digging up and replanting

[Newishgardener]

What I did today well me and the wife we started by cleaning the inside if the greenhouse with jeys fluid

We then painted the shed a lovely shade of blue :-)



Followed by putting the rest of my raised beds in.



I then emptied my compost bins in to them and topped them up with compost we had bought

We then sowed some seeds in the greenhouse and put our onion sets and garlic in we are trying out square foot gardening this year that's why they are so close :-)




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[Deano's "Diggin It"]

Potted on the "Pricked out" Toms from inch n half pots to 3 inches! tendered all other tender "Seedlings" Aube's, chilli's, sweet peppers, trayed em up n off to there new home!

"Garden Buddies" little greenhouse we knocked up a few weeks back! Did post!


Managed to get him a little greenhouse heater from work!



Tell ya what! In the short space of time it has been "Knocked Up" it is paying dividends!

All the "Lottie" early sowing are in there, n romping!





I have hi-jacked most of his shelves!



Obviously the pink potted salad stuff are his wife's input!




Hey! It's not my greenhouse!

Can't wait to get my wooden one up this year!

[Hayley]

Made the most of the fantastic weather out in the garden. Re dug my veg plot where the fence people had compacted it and put canes up for peas, dwarf beans, broad beans and runners. Moved my coldframe and planted last years strawberry runners into it and sowed a few cheeky rows of lettuce between them. Put the mini blowaway greenhouse up and transferred some of my leggy seedlings and started 2 potato bags one with an oca the other with 4 pink fur spuds, put these in bottom of greenhouse until it warms up. Proceeded to clean the chickens and pond followed by a much needed sit down and cuppa.

[MartinRSharpe]

Made the most of the weather as well this weekend.

Dug several of the holes for the polytunnel's foundation tubes/base plate things.
Painted one of the sheds.
Potted up and organised the greenhouse.
Started weeding the driveway as it has pretty much been abandoned since we moved in last year only to be halted when the wheelie bin was full. However you can actually see where the flower bed actually is now!
Did some work with the horses and a bit of an inspection on their soon to be Spring and Summer home so we can get them out of the mud soup that is their current field.

Now just hoping that this weather holds out for at least a few weeks so everything else can dry out

[rustylady]

Managed a couple of hours at the allotment this afternoon in the sunshine. Twas good, even the littlies behaved themselves.

[Mozer242]

Finished building my large raised bed, sorted out the rest of layout for my garden, tomorrow up goes the polytunnel, would like to post up pictures of progress but can seem to figure out how to upload them from my iPad. Help


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[Penellype]

Topped up the gravel on the gravel bed and put cocoashell round the apple tree. Took a photo of the pond for another thread here. Harvested the rest of the carrots to free up the water butt for potatoes to go in there soon. Also harvested some lettuce, pak choi, spinach and a small tomato.

Oh, and mowed the front lawn (blades set on high) which was rapidly turning into a field.

[Snadger]

Bonfire day today. How did I accumulate so much carp? Anyway, most of it gone now including gooseberry and rose clippings. Still loads of pieces of wire mesh that I kept for a rainy day. I'll eventually find a use for them.
I now smell like a kipper, so all clothes in dirty basket and ready for a nice cleansing,relaxing bath!

Oops, forgot to mention I dug a frog up when cleaning my pond out. Do they hibernate in the sediment? Lucky I didn't chop the poor bugger in half. Cleaned out part of pond, topped up with water and he jumped back in.