What I did today 2012-2014

[Greenleaves]

Spent an afternoon on the plot, decided to grid a small 8 x4 bed and try this square foot lark

[Bigmallly]

Let us know how you go on, it is so different to conventional growing. It's great for planting any oddments you may have over...........I think you'll enjoy it.

[Bal]

I spent the morning filling the first of the beds with barrow loads of top soil. Then needed a serious rest so went shopping for bean poles an netting. Spent the afternoon constructing support for the morning glory and sweet peas, planted them out and then ran out of steam

[Currysniffa]

Got the the plot early this morning. 6:30am I know I must be mad. I've been at work most of the week Wednesday i was in leeds at 8 o'clock in the morning and by 3:45 I was in southampton dropping some vans off...... Anyway this morning I planted up my sweetcorn and a 18ft row of dwarf beans. I had a good weeding session before earthing up the late potatoes I put in the new plot. I also had a tidy round on the new plot and I rotavated the last bed that I'd emptied the old compost heap into. Finished planting my carrots now with the last half row going in this evening. I also planted my black beauty courgette and three squashes. I got more squashes and a few pumpkins to go in the bed I finished today. The same thing is happening that happened to my onions last year . they have started to grow all twisted and are falling over. Where I planted my french climbing beans last week I've stuck 4 big sunflowers. Hopefully they'll get really big as the chap next to me always grows big uns and I would be nice to give him a run for his money

[Dorothy rouse]

Went Lottie shop to buy 6ft canes for toms, bought 10, needed 12! Planted out climbing Borlotti seedlings, sowed more lettuce. Tied up mange tout, that had been broken by something. Dug up first potatoes.

Went for a sail on Edith May, a barge,built in 1906, very relaxing.

Cooked dinner, had new potatoes, also made coulis with manky strawberries,kiwi, and last years rasp, had with ice cream

[Bren In Pots]

Laid stepping stones either side of my bean row, cleared an area behind the shed to plant the spare runners, Serbian pole beans and a sad looking Shirley tom that I don't have GH space for.

[pigletwillie]

Commenced demolishing the brick built raised bed yesterday. I am reclaimeing the heavy blocks that are the inside course and bagging up the brick outer course for the tip. The area will become a hosta and fern area.

[Noosner]

Whole day at lottie, lovely. Dug over a new patch and made a makeshift cardboard bed (no manure, just soil as a topping) which I'll plant my rather late sweetcorn through. My other cardboard bed (planted with spuds) is doing so well! I am becoming a cardboard diehard. Will try it properly next year and layer with manure etc. My yellow climbing rose is flowering for the first time ever and the scent of the blooms is wonderful!

[Mumbles]

Trimmed my jungle, just the back hedge to do now



Also acquired a wheel barrow from an abandoned plot 😗


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[cheapskate chaz]

Managed to grab another water butt with stand for free! my favorite price...just in time for the monsoons flowing through our vale.
Also picked up some treated 4x2 lengths for another allotmenteer so she could creat more raised beds.
The Morning Glory I planted two days ago has doubled in height...yeeh! and everything is in fast grow mode. Captured loads of yellow snails for my neighbours chickens, they litterally wolf them down, so still productive and enjoying it.

[Two_Sheds]

- mowed the lawn, put the clippings on the veg beds as a mulch
- picked another carrier bag of broadies
- picked off blackfly infested tips of BBs: only one so far
- BBs also have chocolate spot, so picked those leaves off and binned them
- continued deadheading the flowers: roses, calendula, poppy and cornflowers especially
- scraped another 6ft of weeds off the shared road
- planted up the chitted lentils & mung beans
- started chitting some black beans

[mothhawk]

Gooseberry sawfly has arrrived. Picked around 50 caterpillars off my jostaberry. They don't seem to find the gooseberries, I think because they are underplanted with lavender.

[Bren In Pots]

Thinned out my parsnips to one per station then weeded inbetween.

[Greenleaves]

Had a go at planting up my square foot project, spent as much time scratching my head.....why did I read your thread BM?

[pigletwillie]

10 bags of bricks are going to the tip on my way home.