What I did today - 2017

[cheapskate chaz]

When the cat`s away......the mice will ...eat my peas!!! damn vermin! after placing my Wando pea seeds in the guttering last week, I went in to find they have annihlalted the lot.
So, to see if I can defeat the little bas.....creatures, I re-seeded with what wando I have left and filled out the rest with Kelvedon Wonder, then I placed more guttering, but upside down on top and tied in place, ha! we`ll see.
Spent a good half hour trying to get my Mantis to work....defeated, then my little rotovator, after ten minutes of coughing and spluttering, the rotovator, not me, figured it had duff fuel in it, replaced it with fresh and off she went!
Looks like another fine day to-day too.

Spent the day replacing a large raised bed with smaller pallet collars stacked two high, then after filling with compost and soil, planted out Esteema pot`s.
Seeded some strawbs into containers that use to have now defunct asparagus, reckon the Vine Weavils got them, or they were too wet, probably the latter.
Going up there now for round three of this weekend.

[bario1]

watered my polytunnel basket strawberries.
Dug out the plug of soil separating my plot drainage from my off-plot soakaway - and away went all the water!
Spotted the first asparagus spear poking up (warning - very suggestive picture!)

[ESBkevin]

Grandson in tow Saturday so restricted time and attention, plus strained my back Friday gigging with my band. So all we did was plant a 25ft row of Arron Pilot first earlies and shuffel about briefly. Sunday morning visited Shed supplier and ordered 20x10ft shed workshop for the home garden. This should free up lots of cluttered space and put valuables under cover making life easier. Plans for this week are more promising with the added daylight, yippie!

[Guest]

Smoothered my back in deep heat and wondered where the sunshine had gone

Yesterday, I finished cutting the grass in the paddocks and cut the front lawn.
Planted some hydrangeas in the cut flower paddock.
Planted some shrubs in the meadow patch.
Pricked out lots of seedlings and potted on in GH. (I even slung weak and unwanted seedlings - I am impressed with myself for that one)
Put cover on gh blowaway
Sowed some peas
Had another bonfire.

[Cadalot]

I went to the allotment with great aspirations of getting the Catawissa Walking Onions in, and a bed of spuds planted, plus cutting the grass to the path at the rear, in my mind I may even of had time to erect the extension to the shed. I only managed to get two things completed, as time flashes past when your on the allotment enjoying yourself, or putting it another way perhaps I'm faster in my brain than I am in reality.

A full account with photos of my mushroom tray anti fox and wind break for the Walking Onions can be found at Alans Allotment: Tree - Walking Onion Bed One

[1Bee]

[Friday] Planted out red and white onion sets. Collected a dozen hazel bean poles from my favourite coppice woodsman, who I've known vaguely for 20 odd years and not spoken to in about ten years.... lovely natter on the river bank where he was doing bank protection work with willow.

[Sunday] Dug a bit more of the new bed. Planted out the broad beans.

[Jammers27]

Productive Weekend

Saturday-
Potting bench built, Compost dug over, Dhalia bulbs planted, Rocket, Lettuce and Onion watered and pricked out, Tomatoes seeds planted and in heated propagator.

Sunday-
Cat Proofing veg trug, general tidy up & ideas hatched for the week ahead

[vixylix]

I finally got to spend a weekend in the garden - and a sunny one too!

Lots and lots achieved, its only the tip of the iceberg but it felt great to have finally got out there.

Cut down one wall of next door's ivy (still another bigger wall to go - its going to be a challenge keeping control over the b******!), trimmed back the trees and shrubs over hanging the road, cleared out last year's pots ready for this year's action, and potted up my blueberries into MFBs.

It doesnt sound like much - but the ivy took 8 hours of saturday and is nowhere near finished.

Also had a furtle to see if last year's potatoes were gonners - two very yummy, perfectly edible desirees were demolished for tea. I was wavering on whether to bother with potatoes this year - now I know the answer

[Chris11]

Now the weather is improving and it's officially spring, getting started with jobs outside.

Pruning shrubs including roses and st Johns wort.

[bario1]

Nipped down to the plot in my lunch break as the weather is so nice. Shared my lunch with a cute visitor (see wildlife photos thread), sowed 15 or 16 broad beans under a tunnel cloche, and brought a couple more strawberry hanging baskets into the polytunnel.

[Bren In Pots]

Made lots of newspaper pots

[Cadalot]

Cut the grass, Ummm more compost material then made the bottom milk bottle holder for the Comfrey pipe that needs to be built on my second allotment.

[Jay-ell]

My cucamelon tubers from last year had withered away over winter.

However my 2 Yacon roots i overwintered were fine and were starting to sprout. Broke them up inyo individual rhizomes and left them overnight. Tomorrow I'm going to have to fill up over 40 pots to plant them out.

Probably don't have space for 40 so may be ob the l.ookout for someone with an Inca themed plot to take some excess - now where can I find someone like that?

[craftymarie]

Made lots of newspaper pots

I keep meaning to have a go at that Shame we don't get free newspapers anymore.

Finished digging out the base for the greenhouse. Now getting on with filling soil back, leveling off and compacting it down by jumping on boards. Got a soil roller on order so hope that hurries up and gets here so we can finish off.



This is one gardening job we'll be glad to see the back of.

[Snadger]

My cucamelon tubers from last year had withered away over winter.

However my 2 Yacon roots i overwintered were fine and were starting to sprout. Broke them up inyo individual rhizomes and left them overnight. Tomorrow I'm going to have to fill up over 40 pots to plant them out.

Probably don't have space for 40 so may be ob the l.ookout for someone with an Inca themed plot to take some excess - now where can I find someone like that?

I just might know someone who will oblige..................