What I did today 2012-2014

[Bex]

Weather is rubbish today. Took some French beans and my courgettes and squash seedlings and put them in the cloche. Planted out the French beans that had been in the cloche for a week. I'll be able to plant them out next week.


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[buddy of maidstone]

Today.....cleaned out chucks and ducks,saved a slow worm from chucks,made new bench for one greenhouse,pricked out cauliflowers,more tomatoes and sowed more broccoli.chitted more parsnips as direct sown ones haven't showed at all now it's tipping it down!!!!


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[Snadger]

Found some Ne Plus Ultra peas in a cupboard drawer. I put these in about 5 Years ago from my own peas I had saved. Ne Plus Ultra were highlighted on the Victorian Kitchen Garden program so i bought a few and saved the seeds.
It will be interesting to see if they germinate so I filled a large module tray with compost and sowed two to a station.
Potted on an orchid for OH. Panted a row of Maxine seed spuds I had left from last years crop.
Had a general weed and tidy up of the greenhouse.

[Bren In Pots]

Sown the last of my chitted parsnips, planted out and fleeced Purple podded and Telephone peas that I'd grow in guttering. Potted on my Toms and left them in the GH for the day, they'll be back in the kitchen for overnight though.

[Mumbles]

Tried to explain to my daughter that even though horseradish is a plant we can grow in the garden it does not come by planting horse shoes...


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[Currysniffa]

Sown the last of my chitted parsnips,.

I put some parsnip seed in my heated prop last night after reading the you'd chitted some ( it gave me the nudge i needed ty)

Also potted on some ghostrider pumpkins and some red squash both from peoples off the vine ty

@ the old allotment I planted out some calabrese (12) and a row of spring onions (grown in modules).

Also had a chat with the guy from the plot i'm taking over who said he was going to put a hammer through all the slabs on the plot. He said that seeing as I got him back some timber that had been taken from the plot he wanted me to have them (brucie bonus). Theres a lot of paving slabs.

[starloc]

Planted out some of the plants I brought from the UK to here in Bulgaria, raspberry canes, backberries, blackcurents, rhubarb, onions, shallots.
Then I planted some seeds parsnips, carrots, turnips, broccoli , green and red mustard, curly cress, radish, painted lady runner beans, borlotti beans, 2 types of bulgarian beans I bought in Kauffland supermarket yesterday all in all about 150 bean seeds went in, a big patch of some unknown Bulgarian sweet corn, a patch at the other end of the garden of a few other types of sweetcorn ( even though they shouldnt be mixed due to the cross polination i thought i would risk it)

Then I rotorvated some more to plant out the tomato plants and strawberres from there pots into the garden tomorrow

[Two_Sheds]

- another 6 hrs scraping weeds off the lotty tarmac
- which filled 2 daleks, so I took them up & off the pile, re-sited them & started refilling with new weeds
- we had 3cm of rain this week, which hasn't even dampened the dust down, so started the tedium of watering all the new plantings (3 cans of water per square metre is my aim, but it's probably half that)
- cut off another bag of new chard leaves: chopped & frozen
- Jap onions are starting to bolt, so pulled them up, sliced & froze
- sheared off all the green manures again (growing fast now) & spread cuttings on beds as mulch

[Dorothy rouse]

Planted out remaining sweet peas

Planted another bag of potatoes

Attempted to dig out more of potatoes appearing amongst my onions

Potted up 12 Lavender plants, 'free offer ', haven't decided where they are going yet.

Potted up broccoli. ( in plastic house)

Potted up dwarf beans' ( in plastic house)

Sowed some 'mini cucumbers', gherkin type, (in plastic house

Sowed more courgette, ( in plastic house)

Sowed mini corn cobs ( in plastic house)

Raked up potatoes ( a bit)

Picked off thousands of snails!

[AllInContainers]

Nothing too exciting. General weeding and shuffling stuff about. The sizes of the new trees kind of messed up the plans a little. As such, I've taken down the bird feeder pole, and put the smallest apple tree there, moved the quince bush nearer it's final (next year's) position next to the Jerusalem Artichokes, and moved the peach tree into better sun. Some of the smaller plants were shuffled around to accomodate the changes too.

I was going to pot up and put out the Szechuan Pepper and Bitter Orange, but with the warning of frost on the way, I have decided to hold off on those. It's a real shame about the frosts. I could have done with moving a couple of items outside to create windowsill space for sowing Asparagus Peas and Electric Daisies. Looks like they might be late starters now. I'm also mindful of the pot sizes of other things indoors, and that there's a good chance they'll need to be in larger pots soon.

[Florence Fennel]

Weeded the broad bean bed and watered all the seedlings.

[starloc]

I was going to pot up and put out the Szechuan Pepper and Bitter Orange, but with the warning of frost on the way, I have decided to hold off on those.

The Poncirus trifoliata should be fine with the frosts, I leave a mini one in a 10L pot outside all year long in Liverpool , it gets frozen solid and ice all over it and the leaves stay fine and it grows fine, it was even ok in the thick snow a few years ago we had for a few Januarys, it turned into a solid ice block one year like it was cast in ice, there are many growing in the UK ( and even here in Bulgaria were its very much colder in the winter ) outside, just harden it off over a few days and it should be fine
I bought one from ebay about 5 or 6 years ago and it is now about 4 foot tall, flowered last year for the first time , no fruit but this year when I left to come here to Buglaria about a month ago it was just opening many flowers so should get fruit this year, not that the fruit is any use....if you taste it it leaves a taste in your mouth for hours so I have never found a use for the fruit apart from seeds for growing them as rootstocks for other citrus etc
I am kind of hoping that people steal the fruit and try it , the taste will teach them a lesson not to pinch fruit

[Noosner]

Have written a letter to the local council today asking whether I can take over the abandoned-for-four-years-now problem plot next to mine. AM I CRAZY? Probably. But after four years of having an allotment I have the delusion that I know what I'm doing and might be able to rescue it...

[Feral007]

Road trip, buying horsey stuff and the osteopath. Then I got to water the waffle beds that we've planted out already, and after riding instructor left, sat in a chair and watched son plant and mulch another one I liked that bit the best

[Mumbles]

Decided to sort the shed. Opened the door to a MASSIVE black hairy spider. Closed the door and came in for a cup of tea!


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