What I did today - 2016

[Gillykat]

Potted up the Lemon Balm cutting I got from the chap at the Garden Club ten days ago. Didn't think it would do anything but stuck in in water anyway and roots grew.

Also got three Tomato seedlings poking up - one Red Pear and two Gardeners Delight.

On the allotment I finalised where I'm having my raised beds (hubby has been moving them around and they just looked rubbish!), measured them up and will nail them together on Sunday and get that area dug in the coming week.

Moved a few perennials into tunnel to start hardening them off after being in greenhouse.

Had a panicky moment when I felt that things were starting to go too fast and I'd end up chasing my tail like last year but once I made a list of jobs to do I felt much calmer

[Gillykat]

Oh, and another thing I did today.....caught my leg above the knee on a jagged corner of corrugated iron in the polytunnel Hurt like stink and I said some very unladylike words and then ignored it and got on with moving planks of wood.

It wasn't until I got home and nipped into the shower that I realised just how big the gash was!!! Cleaned it up and will keep an eye on it

[Guest]

Forked over the very bottom of the patch.
Moved 2 liquorice plants.
Redone/ tidied my two netted patches.
Hoe/ weeded a couple of paths for when I wash some more gravel
Removed and potted up 7 fruit trees that I planted a few months ago the peach tunnel thing really wasn't working.
Planted a cherry tree.
Filled my last hotbed frame with compost.

Was a gorgeous day. Spent the afternoon with my oldest and at one point had my youngest and hubby doing bits and pieces in the patch

[Snadger]

More shenanigans with the summer house after work. Set up the door frame and measured and positione some other bits of wood to try and ascertain the shape of the building. Tried up the 4 x 2 spars that I had put aside for the roof slope but found they were too short.
I will have to use the longer, heavier (6 X 2) spars which were originally floor joists in one of the huts I demolished.
I like to do stuff myself without help but don't fancy balancing these roof spars above my head until i get them fastened into position.
Looks like summer house will be roughly 14 foot long by 10 foot wide It will be 9 foot high at the front and 7 foot 6 inches high at the back.

I am leaving the roof spars the length they are which should give a 6 inch overlap at the back (To shed water away from back wall) and probably a 2 foot overlap at the front to form a small veranda. (Not sure about veranda size as I haven't managed to lift one of the spars up yet to find out exactly how much overlap I will have.

On a gardening note I took some chrysanth plantsd grown from cuttings and some Ailsa Craig tomato plants to harden off in the greenhouse as they are getting leggy. I still have another six varieties of tomato and two varieties of peppers on the window sill which will need to be moved within the next couple of weeks.
I also took a mock orange (Philadelphus) and and a potentilla from the greenhouse to plant out in my project house garden at the weekend. I bought these at poundland and have grown them on in a 7 inch pot indoors but they have enough roots now to be planted out.

Apologies to the younger vine members who don't understand feet and inches. I use both metric and imperial measurements but always visualise stuff in imperial......so have given sizes appropriately.

[Snadger]

Potted up the Lemon Balm cutting I got from the chap at the Garden Club ten days ago. Didn't think it would do anything but stuck in in water anyway and roots grew.

Also got three Tomato seedlings poking up - one Red Pear and two Gardeners Delight.

On the allotment I finalised where I'm having my raised beds (hubby has been moving them around and they just looked rubbish!), measured them up and will nail them together on Sunday and get that area dug in the coming week.

Moved a few perennials into tunnel to start hardening them off after being in greenhouse.

Had a panicky moment when I felt that things were starting to go too fast and I'd end up chasing my tail like last year but once I made a list of jobs to do I felt much calmer

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Lookin good gillycat!

[Plot28 A&B]

Plot ready for another year just need the weather now

Have bitten the bullet and planted the first earlys. Greenhouse is filling up nicely with young shoots so really need the weather to turn better so I can start to plant stuff out.

Today I turned the compost bins and now I think I'm ready for another year

[susieq100]

Yesterday, took my broad beans in modules down to the plot to plant out. As I was arriving the Site Manager was leaving to go home for lunch.
"You've been cheating and bought those!"
"I most certainly have not."
"Well get them in and netted and put some slug pellets down. We've got hungry wood pigeons and even hungrier slugs. I picked up 200 last night off my plot 1."

Here we go again folks!

[Gillykat]

Wow! Sounds like you got LOADS done Snadger And there was me feeling chuffed at rearranging a few bits of wood that don't match They'll look much better once they're nailed together and, possibly, painted

[Jungle Jane]

Ive been giving my month old potatoes in bags & onions & garlic that have been in the ground for months,a seaweed extract foliar drench after reading about how it increases size & yield. I've also potted on 5 geranium moulin rouge & a few petunia purple pirouette & purple tower.
This link's about seaweed extract & onions,results from a field experiment.
http://inflibnet.ac.in/ojs/index.php...load/2161/1769

[Ms-T]

Potted up some spinach..will be picking some leaves soon.

[Small pumpkin]

Compost bin has been fixed by the other half. And it's been split in half as well, mainly so I can open the lid without help ( specially when it's wet). Refilled one side of it with all the compost I dug out a few days ago. Potted on some chilli's, tomatoes and aubergines. Cleaned some big pots ready for my chilli's. Almost forgot the daily plant juggling.

[Guest]

Not a lot, struggled to get my bum in gear.

Put the last three canes up on my arch tunnel.
Fixed the chicken wire up on the bottom fence for the hop to grow up.
Put the wires on the posts and tied raspberries up.
Redone the nectarine tunnel yet again and played busy bee with the nectarine blossom.

[Martin H]

Today I pricked out seedlings of...

Calabrese
Brussels Sprouts
Summer Cabbage
Cauliflower
Lettuces
Mizuna

I also pricked out some flower seedlings, took the tops off my spring-sown sweet peas and took some more Chrysanthemum cuttings.

[ChrissieG]

I have tried to rescue a heuchera that is past its best.

Looked on t'internet for help and have now got 4 bits in pots! We'll see what happens.��not hopeful
Anyone taken cuttings of this plant.??

Weeded a border, lots of speedwell, sweet nettles, and other weeds.

Tied in climbing rose, feed and mulch clematis, and generally enjoyed pottering about.

[SaraJH]

Well, I did bugger all apart from re-setting the thermometers in the greenhouse and outside

However this evening I have finalised my SFG plans for the 3 raised beds.

Tomorrow I shall endeavour to be a far less lazy so and so!