What are you doing this weekend?

[Tripmeup]

Lots of garden plans for outside but all weather dependent...

I do need to get myself moving on getting my second greenhouse built tho...for when the beautiful weather shortly arrives....

Finished work tomorrow evening until Tuesday, so I'll not rush into anything tomorrow evening..I shall start with a glass of red and consider my options (first option will more than likely be a further glass of red... )

[Samurailord]

At the Allotment

Assist with the plot H&S inspection on Friday morning.

Finishing off the digging of raised bed no. 12.

Building and digging raised bed no 13.

Fix Willow/Hazel hoops between beds 12 and 13 ready for Runner Beans and climbing French Beans

Digging over the area I am hoping to plant my Jerusalem Artichokes to try and improve the drainage.

Building hooped frames to cover beds 1, 3, 5 and 6. (netting to go on later)

Digging drainage channel to divert runoff from the communal area next to me away from my plot.

Deepening the existing drainage channel to allow the backlog of water to actually run and not pool in the middle of the channel.

Harvest the last of the winter cabbage and kale.

String up three 5' x 10' beds to be used for square foot gardening.

Bash up some rubble to back-fill the section of the drainage trench on my plot.

Fill the first soft fruit/herb bed with a mix of compost, soil and manure, then plant out some bare-root strawbs (if I dont get them out they will die anyway, so I might as well take a chance)


At home

Plant my shallots into modules.

Plant the last of my onion sets into modules.

Plant up 7 varieties of chili into jiffys.

Plant a selection of salad leaves and herbs into modules

Plant a second batch of broad beans (the first have gone a bit leggy and may not do well outside)

Plant a second batch of leeks (a lot of the first have been affected by damping off)

Plant a few brassicas into modules

Outside of all this I am going to be spending time with my new Grandson and also putting on a 5 gallon batch of Apple Wine, 5 gallons of Pinot Grigio and 21 litres of IPA.

Looks like I am going to have a busy few days.

Andy

[VirginVegGrower]

I shall be putting out my broadies and planting my new tayberries up one side of my allotment. I want thorns to prevent those that think they can walk across it. Mwahahahahaha!
I want to sow seeds, so WARM UP!

[Yorkshire.Dave]

Will be planting the Naga and Trinidad Scorpion seeds into jiffy 7 pellets....Currently soaking between 2 sheets of damp kitchen roll....
May finish off the cold frame I am building too.

[SlugLobber]

I plan to load up some rotted manure from the horses' field and spread it on the patch I've dug over, mixing with some MPC.

I also still need to dig out weeds in the greenhouse earth floor and depending on temps, I might sow something to put on the windowsill in the kitchen.

If the temps stay at zero, I'll be hibernating!!!!!!!!!

[binley100]

I shall be selling (hopefully) my preserves at a three day craft fair at our transport museum. Hopefully lots of people will be their cos they have an exhibition of emergeny vehicles and stuff for kids to do as well .....

[Linnea]

Sounds more like a Building Society to me

yep. does make me chuckle

Canal boating?

not quite! but I won't de-rail the thread by going into that!

[Feral007]

not quite! but I won't de-rail the thread by going into that!

Train spotting!

Hmmm, office still needs to be done. Then need to paint hallway. Daughter wants to do it, but will prob be the 12th of never if I don't start it first.

Horse riding, and organising horsey applications.

And some garden stuff. Whatever takes the fancy.

[lettucegrow!]

Goodness ,everyone's really busy! Especially you Andy. I'm exhausted reading that 'to do 'list!
I'm off up to Yorkshire for couple of days. Hopefully helping lambing and general lovely family time with my sister,then home hopefully to clean greenhouse out and start planting????

[weekendwellies]

Thursday - pick up daughter from station, then sit and catch up on the last 3 months
Friday - sow potatoes on allotment
Saturday - plant roses in front garden
Sunday - last minute pruning of fruit trees in back garden
Monday - general tidy up back garden

[Samurailord]

Goodness ,everyone's really busy! Especially you Andy. I'm exhausted reading that 'to do 'list!

The problem is that it is only a list - the actual doing part is where I fall behind.

I dont expect to get half of the list done this weekend, but you never know.

I make the lists so that I don't forget to do something critical, or get stuck spending loads of time on non-critical things.

Andy

[ugley_matt]

Might actually get some seeds grown in doors in the propegator, been itching to get going for weeks.

[MartinRSharpe]

While there is still plenty of snow around the ground has softened up so improving the electric fence on one of the horse fields is top of the list.

If the wind stays off then up the ladder to fix a couple of bits on the roof

Starting to think about the chicken run, we are planning to modify an old calfing shed and turn it into basically a 12mx2.6m aviary.

Don't think there will be that much actual gardening going on, ground still basically zero and large amounts of it still covered in snow so not a whole lot I can do!

[PyreneesPlot]

Carry on watching it rain.
Why is Easter in February this year?

[MartinRSharpe]

Carry on watching it rain.
Why is Easter in February this year?

Rain.... I wish we had rain. Would make a change from the 2 continual months of snow