What I did today 2012-2014

[Jakejakeyjakejake]

firrreeeee!


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[marcofez]

Got the potato bed ready. Then planted all the seed potatoes in it!!!

Put out under netting, broad beans, peas, onions. These are hardening off ready to plant out asap!

[AllInContainers]

I "pruned" the rotary airer (shortened the arms), so now it can acually rotate without clattering against the arch and the gas lamp, and dragging laundry across the potting bench. After that I helped my mate finish fitting his kitchen, then went to the pub for a slap up feed.

[Snadger]

Repaired the door on my chicken coop which had rotted at the bottom!

I had a bag of woodshavings stored in side which when i went to move it erupted with abig black thing which I thought was a rat! It was one of my black bantams which somehow had crawled in and there were two eggs inside. I had to go and sit down for a while after that as I was shaking like a leaf.
Suitibly recuperated i started on a seed sowing rampage with kale ,cabbage,borage,Godetia and quite a few others which I can't remember.

Dug up some carrots,leeks and believe it or not harvested calabrese which is still going stong and has been cropping since last August. Perpetual calabrese methinks!

Also took home, along with the two bantam eggs that were laid in the shavings, another four bantam eggs. I much prefer the bantam eggs for myself and usually sell the large hens eggs very cheaply at £1.50 a dozen to my allotment neighbours.
Anyway, thats one greenhouse bench about full of seedlings, time to start on my other greenhouse.

[hellybore]

Yesterday - assisted OH in putting the last complete glass panes in the newly erected secondhand frame. Still quite a few gaps - got to order some glass this week - but it's getting there. Can't wait to start using it!
Today - scrubbed clean some of the greenhouse glass. Put first lot of seed poatoes in. Weeded out some couch grass from new bed. Rummaged through seed tin and put a few packets aside for iminent sowing...

[Mozer242]

Worked at improving soil in raised bed for abit, checked and watered everything in tunnel.......then got distracted by my little boy worm hunting under a pile of autumn hedge cuttings that i hadn't got around to moving, ended up joining him and relocating 4 frisbee full into the raised bed......gave me a good excuse to tidy up hedge clippings if nothing else
Was also quite amusing to watch him chase his big sister round the garden a few times with a particularly big worm that he had named bob...

[Newishgardener]

Yesterday I did this


I was saved the digging though as one of our friends lent us a rotovator built also did this

Put most of the gravel down and laid the path you can just about see on the right hand side with 3ftX2ft slabs I'm off to work now for a break :-) can't wait to get back down there though :-)


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[RaptorUK]

Did some more work on my first Brassica cage, lots of sawing of wood by hand.

[Noosner]

Got out the cold frame (old tin bath topped with a plastic sheet) and started hardening of my broad beans, sweet peas and lettuce.

Love the sound of your improvised cold frame BiP!

[Bren In Pots]

Moved seedling around this morning things are germinating fast since we've had some sunshine.

Love the sound of your improvised cold frame BiP!

Nooser it came from a friends house, up until 25 year ago that was her only bath

[Ninetrees]

Well, strictly speaking, on Saturday - the buds finally broke on the stone fruits (Stanley plum, Peregrine peach, Ouillin's gage), so I've pruned those back, the apples and pears having been done about a month back. Picked up a £2 gooseberry in a local garden centre as well, so that's now heeling in ready for planting out this week. Also retrieved some fig clippings from my Dad's garden and am now following the propagation guide here. Finally, clipped up some scions from some dormant apple prunings at a friend's place, with which I'll have a first stab at whip-and-tongue grafting with some rootstocks in the nursery bed

[Aberdeenplotter]

planted out my show shallots and forked over the adjoining piece of ground ready to plsnt out my overwintering onions. Don't know how these will finish out as they really should have been moved into the ground last October/November but the settled period of weather I was waiting for has only just arrived. Also made another raised bed for my better half.. It's her buffday tomorrow. Dare I substitute that for the perfume she has just about run out of?

[WPG]

Last autumn we sowed hungarian grazing rye as an overwintered green manure. Couple of weeks ago we chopped it up and forked it in, thinking that was the end of it. But no...went up to the allotment today to find it had righted itself and was growing merrily away. So spent a lot of time today hand-weeding it and dumping it in the compost bin. I'm half expecting it to reappear again within a few weeks. Think I'll be giving it a miss as a green manure in future.

Other jobs today - prepared the potato beds, planted out garlic sown in modules last October, and put potash round the overwintered broad beans ( I read somewhere that it helps prevent chocolate spot).

[68lbs]

Today I... Went to my new fave store 'Wilkos' again!

Came away with:

Parsley Seed - To go with all the potatoes I'm planning
Beetroot Perfect 3
Carrot Flyaway F1
Courgette Tuscany F1
Sunflower Sunburst - For my daughter to grow
Lambs Lettuce - Just cos I love the stuff
Red Onion Sets - No variety stated
White Onion Sets Stuttgarter

None of these varieties mean anything to me and I purely selected them based on the picture so let's hope everything grows ok.

Think I'll need to cut and prepare another bed for all the blinkin onions... I seem to have 750g which must be over 100 given the size of them!

My old man grows his onions in cells before planting out as it helps stop the birds from pulling them out of the ground. Not sure I'll be doing the same with this quantity!

[Dorothy rouse]

I planted 1000 gms of different varieties of onions yesterday ! I did begin to wonder why I had bought so many!