What I did today - 2016

[Cadalot]

A very late start this Sunday due to the rain and shopping, but I went to plot 1A and watered the Japanese Onions inside and outside the greenhouse, found the watering hose reel and then dropped off a flower bucket of shredded paper and the hose bought yesterday to plot 23B. I managed a small area of bed 3 and was talking to my new BFF Cheeky when my neighbour 3 away arrived. She had been asking for help to re felt her shed roof as the felt blew off in the last storm, and you have to help a damsel in distress, as I finished felting the roof it was time to come home.

[Bren In Pots]

Potted on my toms and sunflowers they're now back on the window sills.

[Snadger]

Went to seed supplier and (literally) picked up two 20kg bags of layers pellets. Regretted carrying both together as I thought I'd done my back in! Uneccessarily as it happens!

Lit the woodburner in the greenhouse as it was a bit parky!

Potted on all my chrysanthemum cuttings (30) These I started off by listing colour and variety but I mixed up the labels so I'll just have to take pot luck and try and work out which is which when they flower.
Put my leeks grown from grass outside to harden off. Potted 12 Brussel sprouts into modules.
Watered stuff in greenhouse.
Took three gallon of creosote that i had stashed at my old plot, over to my new plot. The old stuff was so caustic it actually burned through the plastic container and splashed my hand.............it stinks and takes a lot of washing off!

[SusieG]

Made me laugh out loud. Did I mention that I'm only 14?

Me too, Skeggijon, me too. Glad I'm not the only teenager here....!!!!

[SusieG]

Hope your hand is OK Snadger!?!?! Sounds lethal stuff mate!!!! And about your chrysanthemum, it'll be a lovely surprise when you see all the different colours ....

[Snoop Puss]

Watered all the onion seedlings I planted out yesterday. It was supposed to drizzle overnight - I thought that would give them a head start - but in fact it has been blowing a gale for the last 24 hours. They're looking a bit sorry for themselves. For some reason, the cabbages and caulis I also planted out look to be thriving in the conditions.

Rotavated some very old muck into a bed. Tried to scatter some wood ash in as well but the wind made a mockery of that.

Encouraged a friend to keep digging... only one and a half beds to go now in the main veg patch. I'm turning into a proper slave driver.

Oh, and yesterday a man on a tractor came and ran some weed-chopping discs over one of our terraces. So room now for overspill. Sweet potatoes, more peas (to make up for all those I wasn't able to sow due to gifts of peppers and potatoes) and perhaps some experimental single-truss toms, as advocated by James Wong, just to for a bit of fun.

[Guest]

Forked over the last bed in the veg patch - still need to mulch tho as I ran out of paper and card.
Hoofed some seedlings out of blowaway to the patch
Hoofed some seedlings from gh to blowaway.
Sowed a load more seed.
Potted on a few toms.
Had a bit of a shifty through my overwintered pots.



Oh and chased the ducks out of the patch...twice. Now I need to put a bar across the bottom of the gate to stop them getting in

[ESBkevin]

Planted up Brussel sprouts and red cabbage in the bed prepped last week and a couple in the hugalkulter experiment. Went and got another trailer load of leaves and woodchip mulch. That a work out all in itself! I think I have enough now to mulch half the plot about 2" deep then I can add straw on top of that.
Planted some marigolds around the seed carrots to disuade carrot fly later in the year.

[Containergardener]

Well , not much..
Split some mint plants, repotted a sage, pootled about in greenhouse, took some photos, looked through old photos and then just ponderment of my growing yr ahead.

[1Bee]

Took the 5yo to the plot and I cultivated while he clod bashed and worm spotted. The advent of the 2yo has gone off like a claymore mine in his world, and in any case he often struggles to focus, and tends to a kind of hyperactive anxiety, so it was very precious to work side-by-side in perfect accord for the best part of an hour. He's a mighty fine clod basher, too.

[SaraJH]

Erm, I did nowt

Well, this morning I put my toms in the greenhouse and removed the fleece from my spuds and this evening I bought the toms in and put the fleece back on the spuds.

I marvelled at the fact that one (of 5) of my direct sown broad beans has germinated and marvelled at the fact that I have a 100% germination rate on my sprouts, courgettes, peas and beans that were sown indoors last weekend

But I don't think that really counts

[Baldy]

Watered the few chillies and things I've go tin my little old GH - but mostly spent a couple of hours getting my elderly plot neighbours brassica cage up. If we'd built the whole thing it would have been 14 metres by 5 !

Anyhow - it was quite good fun putting it up - I started to get told 'this isn't straight' 'that needs to over 2 inches that way' but she 'caught up with herself' and all was good. Might get a can of beer out of 'em...

Balders

[Lumpy]

am - uncovered the few seedlings outside.

pm - covered the few seedlings outside.

I'm kerknickered!

[Snoop Puss]

Have just completed a productive weekend by planting out some leeks and lettuce, complemented by a bit more slave-driving.

[Jay-ell]

Done some more digging in the New Territories - pulling out the couch grass roots.

Smeared silicon sealant offer the leaks in the greenhouse irrigation system.

Did you know silicon sealant is waterproof? Do you remember that I had just been pulling out weed roots? Well I had now put a waterproof covering over the dirt. Doh!

Sowed sweet corn and beans in the greenhouse.

Dug a bit more.

Attacked the pampas grass with a garden fork. After a 20min attack it was looking healthier than ever. Next week I'm going to have at it with a stout stick.