What I did today - 2016

[AkionTotocha]

Planted the cherry trees from earlier, and had to trim off a branch as it looked like it had been trapped in an automatic door.

[lolie]

Sowed some red onion seeds and that used the last of my seed raising mix, so no more planting for me until I get to a garden centre.

[Scoot]

Eventually got the greenhouse up today. Got mos of my seedlings in bar the tomatoes and peppers. Too cold for them still. Dug the compost heap over and moved some daffodils and Snowdrops further down the garden so i can extend my veg patch.

[Bex2012]

Picked up a dalek compost bin from a friend who is having to clear his dads house out. Whilst I was there they also gave me a big clump of rhubarb. Never grown or tasted rhubarb so its a bit of an experiment!
Had a bit of a cut back in the garden, really need to spend some time out there. Sprayed my orchids with an organic insecticide as they seem to be infested with mite and soapy water isnt helping.

Would have prefered to have spent more time over the allotment, its lovely today.

[Jungle Jane]

Never grown or tasted rhubarb so its a bit of an experiment!

The leaves are poisonous, don't eat them!

[Jungle Jane]

Planted lily of the valley,bleeding heart & geranium bulbs in some shady areas of garden.

[Jonny.D]

Finally assembled my raised bed, it feels like I have been working on it since the dawn of time +/- one day

[SusieG]

Finally won battle with my first 'raised' bed today. Dug it all over, managed to get all roots out! Dug in four heaped wheelbarrows homemade compost. Looking forward to planting my onion sets out later in March ... Beautiful, warm sunny day!

[Bex2012]

The leaves are poisonous, don't eat them!

Thank you for telling me that! Could have been a dangerous experiment otherwise.

[Snadger]

Went to allotment early and showed a prospective plotholder a couple of plots. He decided on one and I took his rent, key money and gave him the rules and regs.

Left the site at 10.30 am and travelled to my project house for more central heating radiator fitting throughout the day.

Returned to the allotment site at 4.30pm and after giving the Treasurer monies I had collected swapped her a Belfast sink for her hens for a bale of straw that had stood a year but was dry and fine for my hens.

Full day at the project plot tomorrow with a mission to finally get the rest of a a large shed demolished and rotten wood burned!

I might even get time to get my onion sets in!

[Bigmallly]

Wheelbarrowed some more chippings, listened to footy, watched Rugby...........easy day today, well it is the weekend...........I'll make up for it tomorrow..............

[Gillykat]

Would have preferred to have spent more time over the allotment, its lovely today.

Far too lovely to be stuck at work today but that was what I was stuck with.....doing a stoopid stock check too! Whoopee doo.....counting hundreds of individual plastic mail bags and manilla envelopes instead of being in my natural habitat and getting filthy and covered in soil!

Off tomorrow so going to get some stuff done on the plot and currently sitting here at my desk surrounded by flower & veggie seeds which I will be growing this year. Realised it's somehow almost halfway through March and I still don't have my planting schemes worked out yet!!!

[Muddy_Boots]

Went to the plot today and pulled up the last of my swedes from last year and dug the small bed they were in. Soil was as heavy as he'll after the last lot of rain so I would suggest you wait a week or two if you plan to dig you're plot.

Decided to join 2 small beds in preparation to put up a fruit cage ready for the raspberry canes when they arrive and same for my strawberry bed as I've got more plants to add to it.

[peachmonster]

Big day yesterday, we finally moved my shed from our old garden share plot to our new garden!! Dismantled, moved 1mile, and put up in new location all in one day! Now I can concentrate on getting the veg patch ready for planting!

[Bacchus]

1. Dug up 5 small fir trees that I planted in the wrong place and reseeded
2. Filled a raised bed with topsoil / compost
3. Cut some gorse down and de-ivy-ed a tree
4. restaked 4 apple trees
5. planted out some broad beans that were growing in tubes in the tunnel
6. prepared some other beds for peas / beans later in the year
7. put some weed suppressant material around another apple tree (that's 4 done now)

A busy morning! Having a rest now...