What I did today 2012-2014

[Currysniffa]

Got another two rows of potatoes in on the new plot this morning + two rows of leeks (40 plants). Sowed a short row of sweet candle carrots this evening. Also finished digging and rotavating the big potato bed on the new plot. I've room for two more rows now Must be beer a o'clock

[1tonne]

I worked all day in the glorious sunshine, then hit the gym. Finally got home and sat down for dinner at 8pm.

Last order of the day was to relax. Busy day tomorrow tho and can't wait


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[Jane Templeman]

Planted tortoises!

No, really! I have adopted two baby Horsfield tortoises and have made them a long run along the rear side of the greenhouse, with a heat/uv lamp over little boulders for them to bask. What does this have to do with gardening? Well, they eat weeds, so it gives me an excuse not to pull up ALL of my nettles and dandelions! It's also been great fun sourcing little cacti and succulents to make their environment a little more 'desert' like

[veggiechicken]

Awww, I lurve tortoiseseses. They look very happy in their "desert"

[brownfingers]

Putting some toms into final resting places in gh.

[shellyanne1987]

Sowed some leeks into the raised bed, sowed some habanero, some more lettuce's and a few more tom plants of different varieties as we eat loads! De slugged the strawberry patch and sprayed some chilli spray to deter more critters, chilli sprayed around the carrot bed to hopefully keep away the carrot fly


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[Mumbles]

Picked up my key and met some lovely fellow plot holders in a flying visit. Can't wait to get started


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[Jane Templeman]

Today I was ruthless and weeded out the self set garlic from the onion bed ( now that I have learned to tell them apart!) In the space freed up I will set out my baby silverskin onions. I know in my heart that I am wasting my time, and it's too late, but don't know what else to do with the seedlings. S'pose I could chop them up and use them like chives.....

[AllInContainers]

Just had a general survey of things ...

Something is eating my hyacinth bean leaves
First strawberries forming, and lots more flowers coming
Jostaberries forming
First raspberry flowers open
More medlar flowers open
Jerusalem Artichoke shoots now about 18" high
Cherries forming
Melons not damped off or cuffered the cold nights (phew!)
Peaches forming
Lovage shooting up great
Ramsons wilting
Persimmon slowly leafing, but might need to thin out the attempts to form branches (looks like a green pompom on a 5ft stick)
All skyscraper lily bulbs have shooted - some rather tall and others just poking above the surface.
Blueberries forming
Barberry in flower
Daylillies looking rather sorry for themselves

.... but I haven't actually DONE anything other than water the stuff on the windowsills ...

[shellyanne1987]

As it got so sunny and warm today I put my carnivorous plants out for some real sun time, they had the added bonus of grabbing loads of the little flappers around my veg


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[Snadger]

Dug a trug full of mome made compost, tipped it on my straw covered cucurbit plot in a little mound. Planted a cucumber pant in the top of the mound and covered it with a 2 gallon clear water container with the bottom cut out.
I have two mounds now with a pumpkin and a cucumber. The intention is to have four mounds eventually with squash and courgette as well as the above.

A bit more hand weeding was done also.

[marcofez]

Put up all the bamboo canes for the all the climbing beans. Hopefully with the weather staying as it is, the beans will soon be climbing skywards!!!

[Greenleaves]

Did a lap of celebration around the sitting room once BigMally announced his return

[veggiechicken]

^^^Nutter ^^^^ So did I

Oh, what else did I do? Swapped plants with two local Grapes - thanks both

[Bigmallly]

Decided to visit the horses field with fork & trug in hand............was happily filling the trug when I looked up & half a dozen horses were galloping over & were within touching distance...........................I dint know that they got fed from trugs did I?