What I did today - 2016

[Small pumpkin]

Yesterday I did lot of plants juggling. Things are slowly ending up where they are supposed to be. Potted on more chilli's and tomatoes. Planted out some more flower plugs, 3 hours later 2 of my chickens though it would be a good Idea to dig them up again . Some of my little feathered friends are really starting to annoy me they have a 7 acre field and a mountain to play on! Why my poor little front garden.

[Scoot]

Today i have pricked out a couple of very late tomato seedlings that i sowed on 1st May and put them into their own little pots.

I also took a few side shoots (2 off Sungold and 1 off Red Pear) and stuck them in some water. Hoping to plant them once the roots show.

Also potted on my Courgette into it's final pot and left it in the greenhouse. Then finally i'd chitted a sweetcorn seed as one of mine had died and that meant i only had 8 seedlings and i need 9 for the block.

Potted on one of my pepper plants as well that was looking a bit sorry for itself.

[skeggijon]

Planted out Tromboncino Squashes, weeded beds in my, now uncovered, small polytunnel and found that the last corner of my plot with a touch of waterlogging has become a frog refuge. Hopefully they will have a wander round the beds and hoover up some slugs.

[SusieG]

Planted out Tromboncino Squashes, weeded beds in my, now uncovered, small polytunnel and found that the last corner of my plot with a touch of waterlogging has become a frog refuge. Hopefully they will have a wander round the beds and hoover up some slugs.

Skeggijon, how have you planted yout tromboncino plants? Are they by somewhere they can climb? Not grown these before (or any other squashes!) and am interested to see how other people grow theirs.

I had in mind a metal obelisk thing to go in a slightly raised bed ...

[Small pumpkin]

Did very little today couldn't get into it ( stuff on my mind).
Sown some cress & carrots. Thinned out carrots and weeded the carrot bed.
I did house work, cleaned out geese and made tea & coffee for visitors. But none of that counts because it's not gardening.

[bramble]

Dug the last little space in my garden this morning and planted out my Kelsae onions. Then spent ages netting them from the b....y cat.
Spent the afternoon potting on my tomatoes into their final buckets. Feeling a bit exhausted now as my shoulder tends to ache when I overdo the gardening.
All in all though, a very productive day.

[Cadalot]

We do like and consume an awful lot of spring onions, so as I was up early is morning I sowed two trays of 15 vending machine cups of Purplette and Ramrod Spring Onions

[Martin H]

I didn't do much with veggies today, spending my time with flowering plants instead. But I uncovered my potatoes now that the frost risk is negligible, pricked out some cauliflower and cabbage seedlings, sowed some curcubits and potted on some sweet peppers until I ran out of compost.

[skeggijon]

Skeggijon, how have you planted yout tromboncino plants? Are they by somewhere they can climb? Not grown these before (or any other squashes!) and am interested to see how other people grow theirs.

I had in mind a metal obelisk thing to go in a slightly raised bed ...

I've planted them in an enormous tub next to one of the sheds in the hope that they'll climb up n over.

[1Bee]

Not Tromboncino ('scuse my butting in) but a climbing courgette and an uchiki kuri... I'm growing over an arch which will span a path.

What I did today... weeded. Cultivated. Cursed rusty nails, glass, and weed roots. Limed the brassica bed (please, don't tell me if I've done this at entirely the wrong time of year UNLESS there's something I can do about it.... ) and dug up more horsetails, then re-covered it with black plastic. Took the 2yo to the tap to wash his face, which appeared to be smeared with a... a... compost of soil, jaffa cake, cheesecake and cheese sandwich. Gloated at spuds. Rejoiced that my damaged cold frame exactly fits one of my raised beds. Got tired.

[Jay-ell]

Took a tub of chicken manure down to the plot. No wonder they cluck so loud if that's how hard their poop is.

Built a blowaway cold frame to start hardening off my squash, beans , sweetcorn, etc.

Cardboarded over another third of a bed and carted 6 barrows of horse muck down from the other end of the site for the pumpkins.

Hacked a load of flowers off the Jersey Kale.

Gone for haggis and chips

[Snadger]

Took all my chrysanths out of the greenhouse to harden off. Potted up a few into individual pots and counted up 36 chrysanth plants in all! Also started hardening off my pumpkins,courgettes and butternut squash. These are all to be planted in my new plot
Finished off planting up the bed of leeks grown from bulbils in my old plot. Watered everything copiously in greenhouse and had a bit of a tidy up!

[cristalfiona]

Mowed the lawn (finally!) and tried to strim the edges but discovered I don't have an extension lead long enough. Weeded round my beans and garlic. Potted my leeks from modules to 3" pots, potted on 1 each of my tom varieties, melon, cucumbers marketmore and crystal lemon, cucamelon and put them outside to harden off. Finally set up my broad bean support and planted out the last of my peas.

[Lumpy]

Today I surprised myself..................the Q's I had indoors sprouted then croaked so I thought.'I know' and planted them outside last Monday.

2 Crystal Lemon, 2 Crystal Orange into the middle flower bed and 4 Space master? (the bush ones) into a large pot. Covered with bell cloches and whoop whoop they are all happy little plants growing away outside.

[1Bee]

Grumpy yesterday, happy today! May I present. ... my squash bed! Ready to roll.



I cut my losses and decided to mulch and cover the near end after Husband had dug it. I simply don't have time to re-dig and pick out the rubbish and weeds by hand, like I have the far end.

This means that with the bean teepee up and the Brassicas bed ready....



... then it's only the leek/parsnip bed that needs reclaiming!

Suddenly I've gone from will-I-ever-get-there to YAY! -I'm-there! !!