What I did today 2012-2014

[starbug]

Did a happy little dance because my grass seed has started growing and is starting to look like a lawn again. It's a bit like the bum-fluff on a teenage boy's face at the moment, but it's actually growing and I was so pleased! I also put down some more grass seed in a few remianing bare patches.

[Artychoke]

Thanks for the support, guys!

I'm sure there are a myriad other ways do grow stuff, and I'm sure most sorta work out. He was just so insistent that we were basically ruining everything, that if I hadn't spent the past months reading gardening books and lurking on here, I probably would have dug my potatoes out again and taken them back home to wait for the "minimum two inch" chits.


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'There's more than one way to skin a cat' so I'm sure there's more than one way to grow potatoes! Try it if it works fine, if not try a different method next time!


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[batman]

Earthed up my first early potatoes, which are slowly peaking out.
Also repotted a ton of leek seedlings, watered everything, and lounged about in the sun enough to have a faint tan line around the back neckline of my shirt.

[batman]

'There's more than one way to skin a cat' so I'm sure there's more than one way to grow potatoes! Try it if it works fine, if not try a different method next time!

As I just happened to post: the "wrong" potatoes have put their heads up, and while I don't know what's going on down there, they're definitely growing!

[AllInContainers]

Yesterday evening I used about 150L of compost just filling containers ready for the next load of installments. Three salad troughs, and a trough for the hyacinth beans. I also put some compost in some patio grow bags, one for Inca Berries, one for another Queensland Arrowroot, and one for the melons. I didn't have enough to fill those though so I'll need to get another dollop of compost at the weekend, and I also have another patio grow bag left over but am not planning anything for that yet.

I also noticed that my Purple Filbert might have conked out. It's been in bud for several weeks now, but there's been no signs of development since, and there doesn't seem to be a lot of flexibility in it. I'll give it another couple of weeks before I make the call in case it's just being a late starter

[Ninetrees]

Sowed red and white onion sets, re-seeded some patchy bits of lawn.

[GardenGayle]

Bit of digging down the allotment, bought some compost with vouchers I had and potted some bits on in the house.

[RaptorUK]

Did some more weeding, just half a bed left to do, maybe tomorrow.

Seems I spoke too soon about the Horsetail, its mounted a counterattack and is popping up here and there . . .

Finished the weeding today . . . hadn't really appreciated how long it takes, I am doing it by hand, every last weed I can see . . . I guess it's going to be like painting the Forth Bridge, once it's done it's time to start again

I pulled another quarter bucket of Horsetail today too . . .

Also prepared the bed and sowed a row of Boltardy Beetroot. Parsnips are looking good, some are on their 2nd true leaf

[avierose]

I mainly faffed about with my wheelbarrow yesterday after I punctured the tyre on an old rusty nail. Annoying as i have about a tonne of manure to shift 250 yards from the car park to my plot.

So today will be mainly spent sourcing a new inner tube and then trying to clear the manure before sun down.


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[Two_Sheds]

- planted out rainbow beet, spinach & parsley seedlings, with frozen hands
- deadheaded about 50 dandelions, again
- watered a patch of self-sown foxgloves, to loosen the soil enough to transplant them at the weekend
- started another packet of pea seeds (Telephone)
- filled two propagators with squash seeds
- didn't harden off today, it's too cold & windy

[Bren In Pots]

Potted on my Toms and sunflowers.

[AllInContainers]

Working this morning, and this afternoon I went to B&Q to discover they didn't have anything I wanted

[MrsCordial]

Snap TS (may I call you TS?), I snapped off a zillion dandelion heads too.

Today I...

prepared a bed and planted out various leafy things
weeded the garlic and onion and removed their pop/milk bottle cloches
weeded round the gooseberry bushes and laid newspaper down round them
ditto the chives
watered in the leafy things (kale, salsola, purslane, spinach)
watered the carrots DS & I planted at the weekend
watered the pea and bean seedlings

I was really surprised to see that one of my Kelvedon Wonder pea plants is flowering already - is it under hideous stress, or is this normal? It was started in a cell tray but that was a rookie error - all future ones are going straight in the ground.

[MrsCordial]

Can I just add in yesterday's efforts? Potted on about 10 artichoke seedlings, two aubergine seedlings, loads of alpine strawberry (won't be letting DS sprinkle great handfuls of seeds into the cell trays again - bl**dy things are fine as hairs and all very happy tangled up together, so have been potted on like that - I'm sure I'll come to regret it), a few basil seedlings and a couple of cucumber seedlings.

At the moment I'm putting a few things outside every day on the bench greenhouse

[Bex]

Watered previous sowings and bought some compost so I can sow carrots in morrisons flower buckets on sunday. Also potted on my courgettes, will do tomatoes tomorrow.


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