What I did today 2012-2014

[Bex]

We're all feeling a bit sore today so we haven't done much. Put some anya spuds in, the lottie were selling them off at £1 a kilo so I had a quids worth.


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[bretty666]

Took the kids in the bike trailor to the st georges carboot they do over here for the english once a year and bought loads and loads of gardening books!!!!!!!!

[SP1965]

Potted on tomatoes, prepared my courgette bed for this year. Gave my brussel sprouts a good talking to, as there's no sign of them!

[MyLifeWithAndrew]

Planted my first row of potatoes.
Covered the next row with decomposing chicken compost/dirt.

The allotment site is clay.
Hands are getting used to the feeling of pulling stinging nettles.

[Dorothy rouse]

Went to allotment shop, bought more 8ft canes, ready for beans,+ more bags blended horse manure.

Prepared bed (had had green manure growing in it), ready for French beans + mange tout.

Spoke to all the other Lottie's who turned up cos the sun was out, was really busy up there, for some this was their first visit this year.

[Deano's "Diggin It"]

Trying to "Multi Task" cooking food, having a beer n look in here! Oh! Just poeted again!

Having had a few days in the "Back Yard" n Mrs "Deano" saying she didn't need my services! "The car! The car!"

Up sticks, n off to the plot!

"fettled the onion beds" n the "Garlic beds"



My concern! The garlic is getting yellow tinged leaves! Never happened before! Well! Not this early in the season!

"lobbed" a few slack handfuls' of fertiliser on! Hope it sorts it!

Any ideas as to why?

[Matt94]

Today I've been on duty at the local garden society shop, sown lots of seeds, washed some seed trays, cut the paths between the raised beds and started to build the staging for the greenhouse.

[hellybore]

Spent today giving OH's dad's grave a makeover. Planted up with (hopefully) rabbit-resistant plants, it looks very pretty, hope it doesn't get too nibbled. Came home and wheelbarowed contents of the Green Johanna down to the allotment - compost looks lovely, just eggshells, teabags and avocado skins not composted yet. Tipped the lot over my oca bed.
Also moved some mizuna and tomato plants from the windowsill at home to my new (secondhand) greenhouse on the plot. Beautiful day, so glad I could spend it outside

[mothhawk]

Had an exhausting day sowing 14,000 seeds.........





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.......Took me about 5 minutes

Flanders poppies - along a verge that has had the ditch cleared out and so was nice bare turned soil, and along a wide footpath round the quarry.

[marcofez]

Prepared bed for french beans after harvesting last of the carrots and parsnips.
Also planted 6 strawberry plants in some large pots inside the poly tunnel. 3 each of Elsanta and Honeoye. Though I reckon I need 6 more.

[AllInContainers]

Stopped over at a friends up the motorway last night and cut the grass for them this morning before I left. They've got a lot on their plate at the minute and were going to have to call a man in ... so I insisted I did it instead. Silly sods spent about as much time shooting off on the sly for a few beers to say thanks as I did in actually mowing. Nutters

Back at home, I planted up the other strawberry planter today. Another 18 standard strawbs in 6 different varieties, plus another 12 wild white alpines on the shadier sides. I also potted on another 18 wild white strawbs into individuals pots. I also have a couple of "spare" strawbs, Judibell and Albion I think, which were extras in the original order (I ordered 36 but they sent 38), but not sure where they're going to live yet ... possibly "ground cover" on top of one of the tree planters. So that's 38 strawberry plants, and 42 wild white straberry plants in this year

Really glad to have both of those planters done, and REALLY hope I have the placement right, as they can't be resited easily once they're filled. We have sat them on slabs which might make it a little easier, but there's still a strong chance of structural damage if resited though. Fingers crossed!

With the help of my matey next door, I also got the traditional looking solar lamp posts fixed to the wall as they had been leaning over when they were just pegged into the ground. I need to sort some more rechargable batteries out for them though as they're not holding a chagre for very long at all. They were also a little low before, and fixing them to the wall has lifted them up 18" or so.

Last but not least, we also fitted another latch to the gate to make it latch open as well as closed so I'm not pratting about propping it open with a brick and then tripping over it

All in all, quite a productive weekend. Gate fixed, lamps resited, 80 strawberry plants in, seedlings potted on, even MORE space created for sun loving plants (which I desperately needed), PLUS did some shopping and got a new pressure sprayer, some chicken poo pellets for the cardoon, globe artichoke and roses, and a new pot for my dwarf pomegranate

[veggiechicken]

Planted out 50 young lettuces, grown on from one of those lving "salads" they sell in supermarkets. Wouldn't dream of buying one normally but this was heavily discounted to 25p I think
Turned over on my ankle and limped back to the house
Found myself some easy jobs to do for the afternoon:-

Potted up some chitted runner beans;
Dead headed the daffs,
Counted the emerging potatoes..............( I do this every day but don't want to bore you)
Rescued a beetle from the pond
Said hello to the robin - who said hello back in a robiny sort of way

Sometimes my days are so exciting its best if I keep them to myself

[AllInContainers]

Sorry to hear about the ankle VC. Alternate between ice pack and hot water bottle to speed up the old healification Glad you said dead headed the daffs ... I'd forgotten I'd done that litte job too

[shellyanne1987]

Sowed my ornamental broad beans, looking forward to having a Victorian era plant in my garden they only have 3 ish bean to a pod but beautiful flowers supposedly


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[dim]

sprayed roundup on the back section of my garden yesterday .... loads of weeds and I,m going to seed lawn

there were loads of odd looking mushrooms under a huge apple tree .... after I sprayed, I looked them up on the internet

morel mushrooms .... £80 per kilogram

they should appear next year this time again