What I did today - 2015

[Jungle Jane]

The hyacinths I'm forcing in the shed have started to grow shoots,about an inch,I'l try & leave it til they're 2 inches tall before I bring them indoors & into the light. Never done this before so looking forward to how they turn out. Watered the Brussels sprouts & lettuce which are undercover,moved a couple of pots around to shelter. French marigolds are finishing now,a few geraniums still looking good.

[Snadger]

The allotment beckoned after the storms we had yesterday. I went there with an open mind to check the damage. I got away lightly with a glass cover blown off my cold frame and smashed and about one foot broken off the end of one of my greenhouse roof panes. Others didn't fare so well and there's a fair few polytunnels that have been mangled and all the perspex sheets blew out of one greenhouse after the wind blew the door off.

On a happier note I dug two chryanth plants and potted them each into a 7" popt where I hope they will throw up cuttings for next year. I noted the colour and labeled them accordingly.
I harvested quite a few beetroot which are simmering in the pan now so I can make some jars of pickled beetroot for my hampers!

[Gillykat]

Glad your allotment survived Snadger I popped up to batten the hatches on Friday and it seemed to do the job as there was no damage when I checked this morning

[elleme]

More digging/weeding new allotment plot today, taking advantage of sunny day.

[Scoot]

Today I added some wood ash to the compost I will be using in the spring for my tomatoes. I also added a little to where my sugar snaps will be growing in the spring along with a little bit horse manure. I also cut down all the strings I had up in my growhouse that supported my tomatoes throughout the summer and autumn

[cheapskate chaz]

First time at the allotment in a week....gulp! gonna get withdrawal symptoms. tidied up in the Poly tunnel, then noticed my Meteor peas have all put in a show, but as it was getting dark will have to net up tomorrow.

Winter Lettuce are slowing down, still only an inch, will make up a pallet bed to re-plant them into as shown in another thread.

[Snadger]

Dug up some parsnips and leeks and took home. Also a bag of freshly picked sprouts and some tatties I had been storing at the allotment.
Boiled the sprouts, but left them a bit crunchy.Par boiled the tatties and parsnips them coated them with goose fat,put them in a tray in oven.
The sprouts were gorgeous, along with the roast tatties and parsnips.You can believe what you like but veggies fresh out of the ground far surpass those that come from the supermarket where they have been harvested months ago and probably travelled half way around the world.

[Nannysally99]

Picked nearly the last of my carrots, must plant more next year

[Jungle Jane]

Planted out some bulbs (Tulips,Alliums & Narcissus) in the back garden this afternoon. Still got about 40 more to plant out tomorrow.

[Root66]

Planted 6 varieties of spring flower bulbs (300) which took forever.
Planted 6 rhubarb crowns
Dug up the last area ready for the winter
Took home some leeks and parsnips

[Snadger]

Gathered some brussel sprouts and some stored onions for my tea/supper. Watered the plants in the greenhouse.

[Snadger]

Lifted the last two Chrysanthemums of the nine named varieties I bought last year from Woolman's. After trimming I potted them each up into 7" pots These two hadn't flowered and had hardly grown at all! Hopefully all that un-expended energy will now be put into throwing up cuttings for 2016.! Because they hadn't flowered and the lollipop label has rotted away I am going to have to work out which two they are (and more importantly, which colours) by an elimination process.

While i was in the greenhouse i watered my young dwarf broad beans which are coming on leaps and bounds. I also cleaned up a few red onions to take home to compliment the other onions i took home recently.

[bramble]

Got to spend a few hours in the garden this afternoon. Did some weeding of my onions and garlic.
In the greenhouse I potted on my Sweetpeas into big pots as they were growing out of the modules they were started in.They have grown so fast with the mild weather. The birds were singing away and it felt like spring. The temp got up to 20deg in the greenhouse.

[skeggijon]

Did some watering in the greenhouse and stood for awhile looking at all the jobs that need doing - knowing that I'm not able to do any of it at the moment.
Had a chat with one of my lottie neighbours, who asked me if I wanted his old rotavator, since he's running out of space after buying a new one, plus a mini tractor and now getting told off by his OH because there's no room in the garage for her car. (who uses a garage to keep their car in???)
So now I've got an incredibly powerful rotavator, which I can't even move at the moment - let alone use, but it'll come in very handy when I'm fit enough to start catching up with everything

[Lisasbolt]

Planted out 100 red onion seedling, i started off really good with my spacings and then realised my lines were curving into each other quite a bit.
Yesterday i planted red and white pak choi, radish, cress,oriental mustard mix, summer sprouting broccoli and some green magic broccoli.