What I did today - 2016

[vixylix]

How much and where from? If you don't mind me asking as I'm looking into getting a 25KG bag next week for £20.90 off ebay.

Might work out better. Mine was 10kg for £9.99 from Amazon, with free delivery. I struggled to carry 10kg from work to my car - would definitely struggle with 25kg

[Paulieb]

Had another go at one of my RHS level 3 exams.
Popped to Dundry nurseries on the way home to buy:
Potatoes (Magenta Love, Rosabelle, roseval, salad blue, Picasso, red emmalie)
Potatoes tubs
Onion sets (red baron and centurion)
6X chicken pellets
Compost

[Scoot]

Might work out better. Mine was 10kg for £9.99 from Amazon, with free delivery. I struggled to carry 10kg from work to my car - would definitely struggle with 25kg

Got a link? The only one I can find on amazon for 10kg free delivery is on orders over 20 quid

[Bigmallly]

Spent half the day fixing timbers to the bracings that Imogen decided to buckle, just let her try again.........................spent the other half day aching...........

[Paulieb]

Had another go at one of my RHS level 3 exams.
Popped to Dundry nurseries on the way home to buy:
Potatoes (Magenta Love, Rosabelle, roseval, salad blue, Picasso, red emmalie)
Potatoes tubs
Onion sets (red baron and centurion)
6X chicken pellets
Compost

Also forgot to mention planting 4 tubers in 4 flower buckets in the greenhouse that will go in the shed if its gonna be cold for long spells.

Depending on the weather they might be ready by end of April.

[sparrow100]

Saw Imogen had blown out 2 greenhouse panels. Spent 25 minutes getting them back in and was v thankful I don't have glass. My neighbour does and another couple are in bits.

[Lisasbolt]

I was starting to wonder who the hell was Imogen........then realise someone similar ripped a big hole in the PT!!! must fix that tomorrow.

Had my front land ploughed, good for the olive trees and going to plant the potatoes down there this year it is over 1- 1 1/2 acres so could feed a lot of people with tats but i need the water.

Sat on my hands as getting frustrated that some seeds have not come up but need to give them a little more time.

My leeks in large pots have gone a little yellow so trying to give them a good feed and soaking them in a water feed over night, hope it works, they are getting old now, to be fair they are very over crowed.

[vixylix]

Got a link? The only one I can find on amazon for 10kg free delivery is on orders over 20 quid

It is that one - sorry I forgot it was min £20 - I bought some tomorite and liquid seaweed too so I was sorted!

[Scoot]

I see. Oh well, I'll order that 25kg one. That should last me a couple of weeks. I mean decades lol

[Ryleh]

Didn't get a lot done on the plot today, mostly due to tiredness after a 6am start at work. I did at least get time to build a new raised bed in the polytunnel. Just need to fill it with compost now

[Scoot]

Just filled two more 3 inch pots up with compost and fetched them into the house to warm the compost so i can pot on my last sweet bell pepper seedling and another Razzamatazz pepper. Put both pots on the east facing windowsill in the sun so they are warm enough for transplanting tomorrow.

[GraciesGran]

Not today but yesterday, the parish council said I could rent the abandoned plot with a shed near mine and I met the groundsman there, he removed the old padlock and I took possession!!!! Have some rusty hand tools, a couple of white plastic chairs and some spiders but hopefully it means that I won't have to carry things to and fro come the summer. Groundsman is going to strim it for me, lost time husband was this pleased was when Crystal Palace were promoted to the Premier Division. Will cover with weed suppressant stuff and carry on with plot one.

[Jungle Jane]

Hopefully these aphids will give up lettuce for lent,squirted them with soapy water as a hint. Brussels sprouts seedlings (about 5 months old,small still) also in the blow away untouched by the aphids but a few tiny slugs found just in time,not much damage at all there is something cocooned inside a leaf though,wonder what it is? Two of my Brussels sprouts seedlings I planted in the ground under a cloche have disappeared,I noticed they were being eaten by vine weevils because the leaf edges were being eaten but I didn't mind much because there's two in the ground that are ok still,plus the back ups in the blow away,I'l have to check in the soil for their grubs,I might lift those two plants & check when I feed them at the end of the month,if they're still there Been cultivating the soil around my strawberry plants to hopefully expose all the sawfly larvae to the frost & birds (theres about seven sparrows in the garden today,some have a nest again in the front soffit,above the bedroom window,one had a word with my cat & then flew back in,my cat can climb out the window & onto the porch roof near the nest but he can't jump up to the soffit it's too high). I think some of my onions have been eaten,or they've sunk very deep into the pot & underground? Glad I covered my potatoes with fleece,it was very icy here this morning,the suns out now but it's extremely cold. sawfly larvae exposure

[Bex2012]

Built two of the four raised beds that i ordered, just need to stain them now.

Also trying to decide if its worth spending £80 on two 200cm x 100 x 30cm raised beds. They come with nice edging and post caps. To buy and build myself would be similar in cost, but id still have to cut the wood down.

[Guest]

Washed out a load of cups for seed sowing on Sunday I fear I may not make it til Sunday