What I did today - 2016

[Bigmallly]

Hello Perseus & welcome to the Jungle....................2 years ago................you're not shy by any chance?.......

[Greenleaves]

Hello Perseus & welcome to the Jungle....................2 years ago................you're not shy by any chance?.......

Probably looking for his other sandal BM


Welcome to the vine

[Bren In Pots]

Hi everyone, this is my first post.
Today I cleared all the runner beans, the French beans, the squashes and the sweetcorn. Sowed broad beans and picked some leeks.
Next job will be tidying the strawberry beds and...loads of digging!

Hello and welcome to the vine Perseus nip over to here and do a quick intro to say hello :-

Introduce Yourself!

we're very friendly

[Jay-ell]

Probably looking for his other sandal BM


Welcome to the vine

Perseus had winged sandals so he should have been able to fly about the plot.

Jason had one sandal and I've check mine - I don't have any.

[Jay-ell]

Started on the rebuild of the new teritories today. Looked out the window this morning and decided to start it later on after the rain finished.

Went down in the afternoon and cleared and built one 1.2m by 4.2m (about 4 by 14 foot).

It's sort of like a ballet build a bed or two, move the soil out of the old bed into the new, demolish old bed, build new beds in space.

Ok it's muddier than ballet and I've never seen seen the Mouse King in steel toecaps wielding a nail gun.

Tomorrow it's moving the toilets, compost, cisterns etc for the next bed to be built.

Covered the bed with newspapers then shovelled some of the muck out of the old bed. Six months ago I looked at the soil in the bed and wondered if it was a good idea to take on the plot, it was grayish and didn't look/feel to good and had hardly any worms.

Covered it with cardboard, a thick layer of fresh horse muck and a mulch of pampas stems and planted my pumpkins.

Digging it today and it's really improved and was choc full of worms.

[Snadger]

Started on the rebuild of the new teritories today. Looked out the window this morning and decided to start it later on after the rain finished.

Went down in the afternoon and cleared and built one 1.2m by 4.2m (about 4 by 14 foot).

It's sort of like a ballet build a bed or two, move the soil out of the old bed into the new, demolish old bed, build new beds in space.

Ok it's muddier than ballet and I've never seen seen the Mouse King in steel toecaps wielding a nail gun.

Tomorrow it's moving the toilets, compost, cisterns etc for the next bed to be built.

Covered the bed with newspapers then shovelled some of the muck out of the old bed. Six months ago I looked at the soil in the bed and wondered if it was a good idea to take on the plot, it was grayish and didn't look/feel to good and had hardly any worms.

Covered it with cardboard, a thick layer of fresh horse muck and a mulch of pampas stems and planted my pumpkins.

Digging it today and it's really improved and was choc full of worms.

I know where to come when I go fishing then..............

[Bigmallly]

Collected approx 40m of decking off cuts from fr33cycle............if you can call 3m & 2m lengths off cuts............

[Snadger]

Collected approx 40m of decking off cuts from fr33cycle............if you can call 3m & 2m lengths off cuts............

Did they have yellow stickers on..................

[Jay-ell]

Wasn't going to have a fire today - I was going to concentrate on the reconstruction however I'm going to have three little 1m x 1m beds and the pampas grass is bang smack in the middle of of them.

The thing was a dense block of stalks - couldn't get the spade in, couldn't get the fork in but I did gt an inch thick metal bar in to try and prise a gap.

After straightening the bar I decided to burn it. Doesn't want to burn either. The outer bits of the stems burned but they burned quickly and the stump was then covered in a protective ash coating.

Piled more wood on and around it to try and smoulder it to smithereens - it's much depleted but still there.

I did move a toilet and pile of junk to build my next bed. Decided to build the bed around the dalek then empty it into the bed.

Dug out some of the soil from the old bed and exposed the end of the weed control fabric - two widths which don't quite make it to the edges and barely touch in the middle.

Hid in the greenhouse when it started to pour with rain. Afterwards dug some mud and decided that was enough for the day.

[Bigmallly]

After straightening the bar I decided to burn it.

It takes all sorts................Anyways, today I drilled some 20mm holes in a container I plan to use for spuds, emptied the dalek into the container & on the beds to make room for the old bean plants, lifted some of the old bean plants & put into dalek before rain stopped play......the roots were like hoooge parsnips....... When the rain stopped, I went on't garage roof and pulled away a load of Ivy that was trying to make a home in the gutter..................

[Greenleaves]

Popped over the plots for a bit and dug a few parsnips and got dragged around the shops

[Bigmallly]

Popped over the plots for a bit and dug a few parsnips and got dragged around the shops

Oh, the joys of married life.............I remember it well...............

[Greenleaves]

Getting me own back tomorrow, dragging her round GC'S

[Bigmallly]

Getting me own back tomorrow, dragging her round GC'S

[Jay-ell]

It's been a digging day.

Dug out the old bed and filled up the two new so that they are well piled up.The old bed is longer wider and deeper than the new ones so has enough muck left to fill up the third bed - which is unfortunately going in the middle of the old bed so I have to start dismantling it first.

Started to have a go at the pampas grass with the pick axe and azada - Snadger gave me a hand and most of it's out, but with the two of us wielding heavy bladed tools in close proximity as the light failed and darkness swept in I decided to call it a day.