What I did today 2012-2014

[Currysniffa]

Today I potted on my sweetcorn seedling into 3.5 inch pots also potted up my new hardy fuchsias and bedding plant into big pots to sit by the front door.

[Snadger]

Planted 27 'Swift' potatoes and 6 indeterminate spuds that had sprouted the fridge bottom to make up the bed.
Dug through mulch of straw and hoss muck to a trowel depth and planted each 1 foot apart. Backfilled with soil and mulch to give an easy friable area around each spud. I did this to great effect last year on another bed and had a cracking crop.
Blitzed a few more path weds with rocksalt.

[datz]

Planted out some pea plants and did a direct sow of a couple of rows. Sowed some potimarron squash. Very hot and sunny today with storms forecast the next couple of days :-(

[veggiechicken]

Drove home with a GH on the roof of the car
OK, I admit it, it was in pieces - although the side frames were intact. At 6' wide they were the same width as my car including wing mirrors - strange how my car felt about 10' wide when in traffic
Potted on lots of miscellaneous brassicas and planted out some turnip and beetroot seedlings.
Spotted norty BamBam, the Whitestar chook, perched on top of the 7' high perimeter fence of the chicken run. When she saw me, she flew onto the shed roof and headed off towards next door's garden where Zak, the Jack Russell would have welcomed her with open jaws. Fortunately, a few carefully aimed twigs and a bit of broom waving persuaded her that Home was the place to be. There's a bit of wing clipping or netting to be done tomorrow!!

[Scarlet]

Get those scissors out!!!

[Dorothy rouse]

Faffed about with the sweet peas, pushed the remaining seeds in the ground with the plants.

Pulled up some weeds, pulled/dug up some raspberry runners.

Removed netting from broad beans.

Sowed some Spring onion, and harvested some radish.

Looked at other peoples currant bushes, a big mistake, now worried.

[Mumbles]

Shared a radish for breakfast as it was ready and didn't want the beasties to get it like the got the first one...


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[rustylady]

Picked the first asparagus spears of this year

[AllInContainers]

Took receipt of a few new additions. Perfect timing too!

I'd just popped home for lunch, and a delivery guy turned up with three trees for me. Mirabelle De Nancy (bigger than I expected ), Dwarf Peach Crimson Bonfre, and Dwarf Quince Leskovacz.

Three beauties! Big smile!

[Bren In Pots]

Sown more pre-chitted parsnips then potted on my Kales and sprouts.

[Nannysally99]

Re potted a few tomatoes to bigger pots, they did protest at first , but I think they will all be ok. De weeded my strawberry and gave them a little feed. Lots of flowers on which is good cause I am aiming to make jam with them this year - do you believe this? Will they all ripen at the same time, no. Will we start eating them for any excuse we can make up? Yes. Jam, no chance.
Lovely day here in west London

[AllInContainers]

Took receipt of a few new additions. Perfect timing too!

I'd just popped home for lunch, and a delivery guy turned up with three trees for me. Mirabelle De Nancy (bigger than I expected ), Dwarf Peach Crimson Bonfre, and Dwarf Quince Leskovacz.

Three beauties! Big smile!

And all these three have now been potted up and sited The two dwarf trees have also been staked. Looks very much like the peach has flowered, but theres a grand total of about three petals left on it, so I'm hoping that's because they've done their job and fruit is a-coming .... although with that many flowers, I'd be worried if a little thing like that tried to produce so much fruit.

Quince looks well and needs nothing doing. Mirabelle looks tremendous, other than one branch ... so it's off to the "feeling Fruity" forum now to post a question

[bretty666]

Earthed up me tatas and made 3 new pumpkin mounds..resowed some celery as i put first lot in too deep

[horticultural_hobbit]

Took receipt of a birthday present. William Shakespeare rose 2000 and stuck it on the plot


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[hamamelis]

Made it down to the plot for a reasonable length of time today, despite the forecast claiming rain (it started 20 minutes after I decided I'd done enough for the day anyway and left. Hah).

Planted petit pois and cut some twigs from the hazel and stuck 'em in for the peas to climb up, prepped for two squash plants and one lot of climbing beans and sowed turnips and strawberry spinach.

Also discovered the lemon mint that was looking so pathetic last year that I just let it out the pot had sneakily gone crazy underground and spread everywhere, so dug it all out and sternly potted it back up again.

Mulched the currants and blueberries with rotting bark chippings, weeded several beds, started planting up the new border/wildlife area at the back of the pond, then sat and watched the birds (I appear to have finally gained a robin in residence ), and drank cocoa.