What I did today - 2016

[Small pumpkin]

Some more re potting of climbing beans, peas, pumpkins, uncovered my potato bed ready for planting up tomorrow afternoon hopefully. Again work and lack of sleep stopped anything really productive happening.

[Bigmallly]

Managed to get round to making a second cage for one of the strawberry beds. Attached a large piece of netting over the pond so "may" get George some company, we'll see. Moved some Tomatoes, Courgettes & Peas down to the plot greenhouse ready for planting out later. Hoping the Flying Cam arrives tomorrow so I can get some practice in & hopefully post something by the end of the week. Well, gonna have a bite to eat then listen to footy.

[vixylix]

well apart from some watering just now I've spent all day revising for an exam tomorrow. I'll be finished my exam 10:30 though and home for 11am - the forecast is looking good so I cant WAIT to spend the rest of the day pottering round the garden with my seedlings

[plam]

Sunshine! Was at plot till half 7 Planted some pink fir apple and apache potatoes, hoed the onions (and only decapitated 1!) sowed some Toledo leeks and weeded the raspberries and mulched with grass clippings.

[MissC]

Got a delivery of very broken livingstone rhubarb that the postie kindly left upside down on the floor in the garden. Rang grumpy man at DTBrown to get replacement. Planted broken rhubarb anyway because, well... You never know! It was very smushed though.

[Jay-ell]

Oh yes - nearly forgot. Hacked back a gooseberry bush which hasn't been pruned in years. Not really an open goblet - mor of a broken beer bottle - but a lot neater now.

Still picking thorns out of me.

They were originally a gooseberry, red currant and black currant bush on the plot but the previous tenant took the other two. Don't know why he didn't want to dig up the large unmanaged thorny plant though.

[veggiechicken]

Its been one of those days when I've been doing things all day but can't remember what I did
I potted on some cucumbers, hoed and weeded a couple of beds, planted some bulbs............but this doesn't sound like much for a full day's work Good job its not paid employment or I'd have been given the sack

[Containergardener]

Ouch..hobble..hobble..creak..

What a lovely sunny day. Car said 13deg tonight off walking dog. Tropical !
Nothing seed, veg related. Weeding, clay and stones. My hand, arm, shoulder and back hurt. More to tackle tomorrow.
Watching last of OJ prog, with a medicinal wine

[Gillykat]

Back on the plot at 6.30pm and spent an hour pottering about - watering, checking fence for bunny holes (neighbour found a tiny baby in his greenhouse the other day! ) and digging & weeding some more beds. Realised the grassy path between two big beds is actually a proper stone and gravel path....underneath the covering of grass and weeds! So I left that as it was hard graft to shift and concentrated on doing beds before the weather breaks *apparently* at the weekend. I'll decide what to do about that path later...perhaps skim off the grass/weeds, cover it with membrane and a thick layer of gravel or woodchip? Or perhaps find a way to lay some turf and have it all pretty and neat

[Frana]

Stained some boards and posts ready to replace some old ones on my beds and dug over a little patch that was looking a tad neglected ready to plant a few extra spuds I found.

[Containergardener]

Been reading through your blog gilly...we have matching green trucks

[Snadger]

Planted another five X fifteen foot rows of spuds. Each row had one barrow load of hoss muck added to it. That was all i had the energy for after work!

[Jay-ell]

Planted another five X fifteen foot rows of spuds. Each row had one barrow load of hoss muck added to it. That was all i had the energy for after work!

You going to be doing fish and chips? Now thats a load of pollocks

[Gillykat]

Been reading through your blog gilly...we have matching green trucks

Neil bought it for me last year It's no good for carrying more than two large bags of compost but it does the job. I tend to use it for carting pots around or, as I am now, for chucking weeds into as I dig over the veggie beds

[Snadger]

You going to be doing fish and chips? Now thats a load of pollocks

There's so much broken glass in my plot I won't need to 'chip' the spuds I'll be digging them up ready chipped!