What I did today - 2016

[susieq100]

Had a lovely few hours at the plot. Planted the rest of my onion sets, forked over another bed, planted a couple of autumn fruiting raspberry canes, 'harvested' some pea sticks from a pile of tree prunings and I attended the AGM. The sun shone, the birds sang and it was almost warm enough to take off my jumper

[Small pumpkin]

I dug over 3 of my raised beds (well the mantis did the hard work ). Did lots of pottering around in my tunnel. Cleaned out chickens, one house cleaned out before 7.30 this morning. Other house already had a chicken doing her egg laying ritual, by time I got there. So that didn't get cleaned out till gone 2pm. Because every time I went back, there was a different chicken in there. Finished covering my strawberry cage. Re-tied raspberry supports.

[Jonny.D]

Moved bags of last years compost to where they will be used. Moved a compost bin. Dumped some rubbish.

[Gillykat]

Moved a few canes around to mark out brassica bed and one for onions & shallots.

Sowed four modules each of Cabbage 'greyhound', Kale 'Nero di Toscano' and early Purple prouting Broccoli - my first food seeds as opposed to flowers!

Potted up a Blueberry into a larger pot.

Sowed 5 x Morning Glory 'heavenly blue' and 35 modules of Tagetes 'champion mix'

[anton002]

Moved the rest of my onion sets that were started in the greenhouse into there final home in a raised bed.

Built another raised bed and filled with manure and covered.

planted out some lettuce that were raised in the greenhouse into a raised planter, fingers crossed they are okay

made holes and fitted them with compost for my parsnips that are germinating in the airing cupboard.

[plam]

A beautiful sunny day, T-shirt weather! Planted out some onion 'Red Ray' sets and some Stuttgart sets that I had started off in modules. Planted out the peas (douce provence) that I had started in the greenhouse in gutters and then covered with a cloche/mini tunnel thing. Hoed my autumn planted onions and garlic. Mowed the grass paths. Did some digging on my soon to be pumpkin patch and then had a lovely beer. I'm a lucky girl!

[Bex2012]

I actually spent some time in the garden today, rather than over the allotment.
Potted up a gorgeous red stemmed acer that I treated myself to, and took some cuttings from a erysimum. I also put the mara de bois strawberries that I bought into a tub, think I'll keep these at home rather than over the allotment. Also gave all the pots a water, they were suprisingly dry!

[vixylix]

Beautiful and busy day in the garden today.

I watered everything (surprisingly dry), sewed closed my netting as the cat has managed to find a gap he can get through, pruned back all the herbs (the mint especially had gone a bit wild over winter), sowed 5 swift potatoes, 2 osprey and one saxon, FINALLY a bucket of carrots sown and red onion sets. Also finished transplanting my garlic into their final positions - I'm trying them in hadopots this year.

Squished 3 earwigs (one escaped) and 1 caterpillar - I was really hoping the abundance of earwigs we had last year was a one-off - but it doesn't look likely. I did find 4 worms which have been relocated to my raised bed

Indoors - re-potted several tomato seedlings, thai basil, lavender and oregano

[lolie]

Sowed some Alba California poppy seeds and that was it. There's nothing for me to do at the moment until new seeds arrive tomorrow and those which I've already sown are ready to plant out.

[Bacchus]

Started off the annual trecking in and out from the poly tunnel to my office with trays and trays of seedlings as I needed to repot everything yesterday and now the grow lights just wont take them all. In fact I had to remove a grow light just to make room for the seeldings - all tomatoes and chillies.

[ESBkevin]

Nice Dry weekend so much was made of it. Strewth I'm unfit after a winter of sitting about.
Anyway Saturday I Rotovated the half plot we keep open So I can cultivate en masse. I did it with a cheeky old ride on machine thats not brillient but is fun. Tidied up the edges and put the machine away again.
Sunday we both went to the plot, cleared the runners beside the strawberry patch so they could be properly planted. Dug out any weeds and I spread some horse muck and leafmould and rotovated that in (small petrol machine so better quality finish), then raked level, covered in thick cardboard and mulched over with leaves and rotted wood chip. Apply some urine diluted with water (for the nitrogen) and leave ready to replant the strawberries. Planting will be a case of make hole in cardboard with trowel and plant. It keeps the fruit clear of weeds and clean enough to eat and improves soil quality over the year.
Also the first early potatoes went in, a handful of rotted woodchip and leaves with each one, soil temp only 6Deg Celsius but they are in now so lets see.
Today my armes and shoulders ache. Youth is wasted on the young!

[Jungle Jane]

Its my daughters birthday today,I've been shopping for three days & not done much gardening but while she's at school I'm going to sow these geranium seeds I just bought.

[vixylix]

Today my armes and shoulders ache. Youth is wasted on the young!

I am aching something chronic today and I am young(ish!)

[Lumpy]

I have re potted some of my leggy toms..............it worked last year but I have no idea whether it will this one.

Ooooed and rrrrrred over my broad beans (Robin Hood) that have finally put some effort in to break through the compost.

Potted some more ginger.

[Bren In Pots]

Cleaned my GH then dug out some soil from the borders and replaced it with Dalek compost.