What I did today 2012-2014

[Dorothy rouse]

I've just planted out some broccoli seedlings at plot,they were getting bit 'leggy', covered them with fleece tunnel, for a few days to protect.

Do you think they will survive?

Also pushed a few nasturtiums seeds in around beds.

[Florence Fennel]

Cut off the dead daff heads so I can see the tulips

[horticultural_hobbit]

Helped to dig spud trenches and sunk red duke of York and lady Balfour.

Got rained on.


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[Aberdeenplotter]

Yet more reconstruction of polytunnel. Fitted new rails on gable ends including making a single new rail out of two bits of old ones. I still have to nail the rail ends together but otherwise that is another tedious job done. Old anti hot spot tape still to remove as also a few bits of skin fixing batons around the doors.

Almost wish I'd never started . It is so much much more simple erecting a new one as opposed to re-erecting an old one which was in bad nick to start with.

[WPG]

Have had comfrey leaves compressing in old bin since autumn, so strained it all off and bottled the oil (including a bottle for my mum for Mothers day)



(I will buy her flowers too)

[Maddiesaur]

FINALLY sowed some seeds! Still a little on the chilly side and no doubt it'll drop below freezing again now because of it but I just had to do SOMETHING. Just having things sitting on the windowsill under the prop is enough for me to feel much better. Booked my Mr for Sunday morning digging, path making, bed edging and general labour work at the allotment before visiting his Mum.

[Martin H]

Finished the first month of my notice period, only 2 months to go. Roll on the end of May!

[Penellype]

Indoor gardening today. Potted up a couple of tomato cuttings. Sowed some lettuce, salad mix, beetroot and pak choi for the cold frame and some peas for pea shoots in the propagator. Waited all morning for the rain to stop so I could go to my friend's house and do some more digging. By the time it stopped at lunchtime I needed to make a phone call which I expected to take about 1/2 an hour, but got "can I ring you back in a bit" - so of course by the time he rang back it was 5.15 and perishingly cold outside...

Ah well, there's always tomorrow.

(I don't have a mobile because I get no signal at all in my house, so usually its pointless).

[Bigmallly]

Spent most of the morning sorting the drains out.........the things a guy's got to do to earn a crust...................made up for it this aft by going for a stroll on the beach & sussing out my fishing spot...........

[snakeshack]

Went up the lottie to see the manure delivery from the local farm the guy said 1 load for 40 quid or 2 for 50 so we went for 2 . There has to be over 5 tons per load!
Got out barrow went home for foot pump and started shifting as he dumped it in front of the gate.
After 2 hrs thought I was gonna die made an agreement with my neighbour that last one standing would call the ambulance , both our plots are about 100 m from the gate.
After 4 hrs wished I had died and there was still over half left
Looks like I'm back tomorrow shifted over 80 barrow loads today . Bought some voltarol on the way home. Anyone know the going rate for a defibrillator on e bay


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[Feral007]

Planted out the seedlings I bought last week, because I was off sick. Son has made the garden into a waffle bed. So the dug down bits should hold the water better and stay cooler/warmer.
Since last week it has been consistently drizzling/steady rain.

Everything looks like it is growing in the garden now. The flowering plants are flowering, including the gardenia I put in - one white flower.
And all the veg look good.

Hoping to get some seeds in today/tomorrow as we're due for more rain now. The grass is going to have to wait

[AllInContainers]

Went to B&M and picked up a bird feeder pole, seed feeder, nut feeder, coconut fat feeder, and half a dozen fat balls. All assembled and fully loaded, and just waiting for the birds to realise ...

I also picked up a white rose bush and red rose bush for £1.50 each. Not sure what to expect from them in terms of quality, but worth the gamble at that price. Finally I picked up a couple of window box baskets for hanging on the house side of the fence. This will give me somewhere for the surplus wild white strawbs, and I'll be starting another thread with questions on companions for them

Well ... I also discovered the white "rose" I got wasn't a rose, but an ornamental shrub with white flowers Didn't twig it wasn't actually rose in the shop (above the sign that said two roses for £3), but it was obvious enough to not be a rose when I picked up the box again this evening to plan which pot to use etc. Glaringly obvious now I've spotted it, I was just stupid enough to assume blue box with white flower in the rose section was a white rose, even though it says something different on the box .... Dunce!!!

The hunt for a cheap white rose bush continues

[Noosner]

Thanks everyone for the reassurance on the pepper seedling front! Much appreciated

[superlady]

Filled the raised bed with manure and compost, put string across to mark out the square feet (I have 15 full squares and 3 half squares which is more than I thought I'd have) and planted up some of the squares. Now have squares of Champion of England tall peas, Red Epicure Broad Beans, mixed beetroot for baby beets and some elephant garlic that I found in a planter that I needed to empty. Then covered the whole lot with enviromesh to deter small children! Sowed some trays of mesclun and Twinkle peas for salads. Potted up tomatoes, nasturtiums, cucumbers and tomatilloes. Found some strawberry plants in a pot in the corner so I put them in an old hanging basket I found in the shed and hung them up (not sure if I'll keep them there but they can stay there for the time being) . Moved my jostaberry, raspberry, goji berry and rhubarb to in front of the back fence so that I can put the wheelie bins where they were instead, and chopped the goji berry bush back because it was taking up too much space.

[batman]

Raked one of the beds that we dug over in October and sowed beetroot and parsnips.

Sowed more radishes in the greenhouse. Sowed peas, purple sprouting and brussels sprouts (flower sprouts and purple sprouts) in modules in the greenhouse.

Started to get my wildflower bed ready - but it's around the shed and very compressed soil, so I will return tomorrow and fork it over a bit.




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