What I did today - 2016

[Lisasbolt]

Been out and sowed the rest of my Parsnips today. Got 97 in the ground altogether. They're all chitted seeds so i am hoping they all show.

Got bloody loads left though and have no idea what to do with them. Might see if the nest door neighbour wants any.

Haha, you counted them how many do you have left exactly

[Scoot]

Haha, you counted them how many do you have left exactly

Haha, yeah i counted the rows and how many were in each row.

I have no idea how many i have left, probably about the same looking at them but I'm not counting them lol.

[Nannysally99]

First round of spuds in various recycling bags, builders buckets etc.
Will plant the rest out in two or three weeks
ALL numbered and recorded, after last years shenanigans with hubby moving them at will, won't happen again.
Also sowed carrots and salad crops, being as I'm buying so much lol
A break for lunch and a cupp
Oh, and it's 70 degrees F in my garden

[Lumpy]

Charlottes now in the huge buckets I acquires yesterday - role on tatties. I have them against a wall with a radiator on the other side so fingers crossed.

Went to a boot sale and got strips of leeks (Jolant), chinese cabbage (Richi), spring onions (Apache) and 12 strawberry plants for £3 - bargain.

All the veg are really healthy so I have potted some of them up and the others have gone into a raised bed with a plastic tunnel at the ready.

OH has filled and planted out the large strawberry pot. I am still umming and arring over a blackberry (Cascade) to go in the top.

[Florence Fennel]

Weeded, hoed and fertilised the bean bed. Sat in the sun with a glass of white wine

[SlugLobber]

Yesterday I tilled the plot ( sorry worms, back not up to manual digging anymore and I was fighting the forecast!). Then I put in my onion sets and parsnips. Today I put in all the spuds. Now rewarding self with cuppa and Bond Film. ;-)

[Bren In Pots]

Planted out last years strawberry runners then weeded and added dalek compost to my beds.

[Deano's "Diggin It"]

Tomatoes done!



Been a "Glorious" Day on the plot!

But need a Bath! Before my OH clocks this!

This is where the "Earache" starts!

Really need to get this Greenhouse up, but said that last year!

Time, Time, Time, That is my biggest "Bug Bear"

[ChrissieG]

Pruned climbing rose, and treated new fence.

[Bigmallly]

Deano!................Stop cleaning everything & get the bladdy greenhouse up..............................Oh, what did I do today?.........not a lot, just hoe'd over 5 beds.

[Small pumpkin]

Today there was plant juggling. Starting to run out of space in tunnels. Pricking out beetroot, swede & turnip. Seed sowing. Making plant labels ( big ones! )

[SaraJH]

Planted the first 30l pots of spuds (6 pots) the next lots will go in in a few weeks.

Sowed shallot sets (late, I know!)

Sowed a row of broad bean seeds

Planted out a few perennial herbs, potted up a rosemary and a bay.

I had intended to sow some carrot seeds but I can't find my carrot bags

[Guest]

Had my oldest (3 years old) helping me in the patch all afternoon

So she watered, put some newspaper down, watered, dug, watered, spied on our neighbour and watered some more

I mulched round the gooseberries.
Planted my outdoor grape phoenix
Squished 30 odd vine weevil grubs that were in the above (squishy, yet satisfying)
Mulched an empty bed.
Planted my indoor grape perlette ( thankfully grub free)
Planted up my asparagus bed - 4 varities total of 22 plants (my highlight as I grew all the plants from seed)

[Bex2012]

I worked my socks off today! Trip to homebase for weedkiller & garden sundries. Also picked up some veg strips, £2 a strip. I got celeriac, mange tout, broccoli, cauliflower and leeks (as I just cant seem to get my leeks to germinate!).
Over to the plot where wood chippings had been delivered... 14 barrowfulls later, i have a finished path and seating area! I also attempted to start clearing the new bit, but that needs some brute strength.
Came home for a bit & sowed some more seeds. Had a kip & headed back to the plot around fivish to light the bonfire.

[plam]

Started to lift turf and roughly dig over what will this year's brassica bed. Harvested a whole big trug full of dandelion and couch grass roots!

Mulched the blackcurrants with home made compost.

Saw solitary bees