What I did today 2012-2014

[Ladyslip]

Planted salad leaf, radish, spring onion,turnips and beetroot....all in the poly.......some of the carrots are starting to show....will look to be setting beans today...have to think where to put them tho as the pigs are overstaying their welcome where I need to put the beans and potatoes.....

[horticultural_hobbit]

Sown some experimental carrots, celery and parsnips. Going to direct sow some broadies in the plot.

Filling up beds with lead mold as mama h digs.


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[Aberdeenplotter]

Finished digging muck and compost into bed for show shallots. gave it the once over with the hand cultivator and rake. WIll plant them out tomorrow. I know, I know, never put off till tomorrow etc but Scottish league cup final today. Cmon ye reds

[MrsCordial]

I'm not sure lead mould will do your plot any favours, Horticultural Hobbit ;D

I planted out a few pea seedlings (Kelvedon Wonder) with DS this morning, and watered the pots and garlic planted last weekend. I'm following the biodynamic lunar calendar this year just for fun, and as it's a full moon today I shouldn't really have done anything, but I'd promised DS and you disappoint a five year old at your peril!

[Bren In Pots]

Potted some Kohlrabi into modules then planted lettuce grown in newspaper pots into a trough.

[Dorothy rouse]

Planted loads of onions, 500gms Sturon, 250 gms Red Baron and 250gms, some just called. Red onion. They filled the whole of one of my new beds. Had to actually water the ground it's been so dry, seems crazy after all that rain.

Talked to all the other 'Lottie's' who had come out to play in the sun.

Now I is tired.

[darcyvuqua]

Potted on the last of my chilli babies and my first lot of tomatoes now the toms are looking really sad watered in well hopefully perk up in the next few days

[catgirl]

Planted out the overwintered cauliflowers and calabrese. Even if we do end up having a cold spell I'll just over them with fleece and hope for the best. Besides, I needed the greenhouse space for my new plants.

Then I moved the cherry toms into the greenhouse and sowed some more calabrese. Oh, and finally discovered that half of my broad beans have germinated in the raised bed outside. It's only taken them 26 days! Now to be patient and wait for the other ones to appear...

[Nannysally99]

Just planted 10 pentland express spuds in two recycling bags, lots of different seed tomatoes, squash, peas all in plastic cups. Two to a sandwich bag, used bag tags to make mini greenhouses. They are on south facing windowsills nd condensating already. Is it ok to leave them like that until they germinate or do I have to let more air in?

[KittyColdNose]

Planted some red baron and sturton onions today and giggled away at the worms jumping out of the ground whilst doing it. The wee wrigglies never cease to make me smile. Strange, I know.

[rustylady]

Bit more digging to remove weeds and loosen the soil a bit. All the heavy rain over winter has really hammered my poor plot.

[bramble]

Spent a pleasant afternoon potting on my tomatoes and chilli peppers.
Potted up 12 fuschia plants and 18 petunias that i bought in Aldis last week.
Weather very disappointing, dull and overcast.

[Deano's "Diggin It"]

Is it ok to leave them like that until they germinate or do I have to let more air in?

Leave em as they are "Nanny" they'll be "Reet!"

Had a lazy day! Potted on and top dressed a few of the "Overwintered Stuff" slowly bringing things back into life!

I love this time of year, expectations, and comes with it the trepidation's! what's made it through n what hasn't!

But it has been that mild a winter, I'm confused let alone the plants!

[batman]

We wove a support for our peas out of shoots from the tree at the end of our plot.

Then did a lot of digging and weeding and finished our legume beds. They were empty for two years under our predecessors and were completely infested by dandelion and dockweed. We've removed as many roots as possible and will try to dig/mulch the next few years to control that area.

At home, a lot of my seedlings wanted potting on- I'm running out of windowsills!


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[judy2shoes]

Had a lovely day in the polytunnel. T shirt weather!

I potted up Chillies, sweet peppers, marigolds, sowed some Chinese broccoli (early as an experiment) and some Pak Choi Tatsoi (we love Asian cooking , topped up the main raised bed with more home made compost - lovely blacks tuff. It's the first time we've made our own compost and am completely addicted.

OH weeded the outside beds and tidied up. And mowed the lawn - first time this year.

I love this time of year. I keep a photographic journal using the Evernote App. It's great and so easy to use. So, look back at this time last year and see how we are doing as a comparison. My tomatoes were much further on last year, I planted ended of January and got a great crop but fell behind this year. We still haven't got the hang of getting the best over the full year in the PT.

Next weekend the shorts are coming out!