What I did today 2012-2014

[Greenleaves]

Prowled up and down the greenhouse like a caged lion, continuous rain until 3pm. started doing things that never needed doing but good news...the sun is due to shine here tomorrow!

[AllInContainers]

This year, my little purple peach tree as succumbed to the said same thing! "Gutted!"

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Yikes Deano, that peach really copped it Mine only has a few leaves on that have started to "blister", but I have no patience for anything that's liable to get riddled like that, so mine has to go preemptively. Thankfully I have that much other stuff out there, with a minor reshuffle, you'd never know anything was missing

[Noosner]

Bunged my tomato plants out in the unheated greenhouse - they aren't as big as usual for this time of year and I don't know what I've done wrong, but they have to move out now. I need windowsill space to start some more sweetcorn as only 4 came up in the last germination. My pepper seedlings are still looking ridiculously small, too!

[Bex]

Picked some spinach and radish, planted out sweet peas. Admired my strawberries and made noises about netting them. Moved peas and dwarf beans to the cloche at allotment. That's it for today, it's raining again.


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[Snadger]

Today............I got sick of waiting for my climbing french beans and climbing peas to germinate in modules so decided to sow the rest of them direct.
Hoed off all the small weeds around my three wigwams and and made furrows inside and out. Sowed the rest of my beans in the two end wigwams and the peas in the centre one.
I am growing Alderman climbing peas after first sowing some home kept Ne Plus Ultra that I'd found in a drawer.
Only one Ne Plus has germinated so the rest went into a furrow along with the Alderman.

Hand weeded a flower bed. Hand weeded an onion bed.

I then went on a 'weedfest' on two overgrown beds. Pulled out loads of nettles, thistles and buttercups. My arms are now tingling with nettle/thistle rash but the pain in my back has taken the edge off the nettle rash.

Watered all greenhouse stuff and departed for a well earned rest.

[littleplot]

Have just potted up two cucamelon plug plants which arrived in the post from Suttons. A bit of a mystery, because I've never ordered anything from Suttons - but anyway, at least getting freebies is better than getting junk mail.

Recieved the same from suttons Potted straight into 5" pots and put in the cold frame. Seem to be doing grand. Already have a tendril shooting out from each.


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[Dorothy rouse]

Constructed 3 bean pyramids, and planted 2, one with runners, the other climbing French. The other will be Borlotti, when they germinate!

Re netted Sprouts.

Pulled up more random potatoes, and a few onion flower heads.

Sowed more Spring onion, in the hope some might grow, between sprouts n broccoli.

Pulled up garlic that had got 'rust', bulbs are reasonable size.

Shoved more dwarf beans in direct, only about 5 have come up so far, gave rest to other folk to try their luck.

Aching now

[Bigmallly]

Linked up the rest of the pipework from the stream to the pond, installed an in-line filter using a plastic container, a shopping basket & a load of debris netting.............I know..........but it does work & will be a breeze to clean out............

[Mumbles]

Pinned 4 strawberry runners into fresh pots of compost. Is it normal to have runners this early?




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[Dorothy rouse]

Don't know, but I have some also, think strawberries are confused this year?

[Florence Fennel]

Moaned about the weather and being bored, but sun is out and I've done lots of weeding and am about to feed the onions

[johnjohn]

Tied back the late daffs, planted out some seed sown onions, alderman peas and some leeks.
Dug out the pathway for the polytunnel that still isn't covered because the weather/wind has held us up.

[Green Gerkin]

I just re potted my tomato seedlings and have now realised I have 10 red pear variety but only space for two in the garden. Got a bit excited with seed sowing!


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[Bren In Pots]

Potted on some mixed lettuce that I'd grown in tiny thumb nail sized modules, a neighbour annual flowers arrived in them so thought I'd give them a go.
Plus I've sown more radish seeds.

[Sanjo]

Planted out last of the marketmore cucumbers plus trying out a tasty king outside.
Planted out a dozen sweet corn plants.
Mourned the loss of yet more lettuces, so crinkle cut tops on yoghurt pots didn't deter them there critturs!
Planted one tomato and a Tasty King cucumber inside the small growhouse. One each to a flower bucket.
Took the protection off the strawberry bed, weeded it, and replaced cover with mesh.
The strawberries are the biggest, fattest ones I have ever grown with pretty huge leaves. I can only assume that throwing the contents of husband's incinerator over the bed in the autumn has helped produce this bounty.