What I did today 2012-2014

[Noosner]

(We did a trial run round a seed tray on Sunday and it worked so here's hoping. Have also purchased the real kit from Ebay to do two other beds without all this faffing about.)

Read this as 'We did a TRIBAL run round a seed tray on Sunday and it worked,' Sanjo.

Visions of you guys wearing feathers and running around a seed tray whooping! Might be worth a try, though.

[Mumbles]

Anything to keep those darn slugs away...

[Two_Sheds]

- planted out some dahlias (grown from cuttings taken in April)
- picked another carrier bag of broadies & 3 lettuces
- continued weeding the road area
- watered the new transplants, as no rain due for the foreseeable
- stood the trays of mung bean & lentils outside for some sunbathing

[Martin H]

Finished my greenhouse: path, power and downpipes now installed.
Installed a light switch and a pond pump switch in the shed.
Down the allotment, picked a big bunch of sweet peas then layered the cordons that had reached the top of their strings.
Dug up some more Lady Christl and furtled a few Charlotte potatoes.
Planted out 24 dwarf french bean plants that I started form seed a couple of weeks back.
Attached the weeds in among the lettuce and beetroot. More of that tomorrow.

[KittyColdNose]

Decided at 6.30pm to move the compost bin and contents to a new spot. It's now 7.45, I am boggin, the dog is boggin (she tried to help ) but the bin is happy in it's new home and approx 400litres of compost got a ruddy good mix when I moved it. So, time for a shower to wash off the muck and ease the aching muscles.

Tired but happy

[Dorothy rouse]

Pulled up over wintered onions, and garlic,now drying on bench. Dug over bed and sowed,lettuce,fennel,pak choi, carrots, beetroot. Watered plot.

[Nannysally99]

Furtled two sharpes express potatoes and slightly over cooked them. Tasteless. Hoping it was just the cooking, got 10 of these plants

[Snadger]

Rigged up some netting over hoops and planted out 15 Thousand Head Kale plants into a prepared shady bed.

Looked at rest of plot in dismay! Weeds are starting to take over!

[Bal]

Shifted 3barrow loads of wood chip mulch from the front of the drive to the border at the front of the house. Found 6 hellebore seedlings to big to just dump so have potted them up along with about 20 million tiny ones. Now have about 20! (I just can't throw away any plants ) weeded and mulched said border. Did cart wheels round the garden. Lettuce and spinach that was planted on Saturday has already sprouted

[AllInContainers]

Drove around in the sunshine in a black car with black leather interior, and perspired

[Florence Fennel]

Pulled up the slugged runner beans that were just 2 foot stalks still wound around the canes. I could throw a blanket over the wigwam and sleep in there. I might have to if and when the seeds sown yesterday come up, just to guard the plants! Fed the tomatoes. Comfrey feed only again this year.

[Snadger]

Tied up my bored beans. Tied up and sideshooted a few toms.Pulled a few weeds.

[Dorothy rouse]

Tied up my bored beans. Tied up and sideshooted a few toms.Pulled a few weeds.

Why are your beans 'bored'? Try singing to them.

[susieq100]

Just back from the plot. And in the nick of time I think - it has gone "all black over Aggie's" as my Nan used to say. No ... I have no idea who Aggie was. However, leeks and celeriac and french climbers planted out, PSB weeded, tomatoes and cukes in the glass shed watered, potatoes and strawberries harvested. A productive 2 and a half hours.

[pigletwillie]

It has been a slow old afternoon in the data centre at work so I printed off and laminated proper in depth drawings for National hives for me and my pal. Being laminated and in a posh folder they are workshop proof and that vital dimension will no longer have coffee cup/beer glass rings on it.