What I did today - 2017

[johnjohn]

Continued clearing out the 12x10 GH. This one doesn't get much sun in winter so becomes a seed sowing/potting up station - in other words its full of odd pots and trays, bags of compost and dead plants.
I can walk down the middle now without tripping over junk so its nearly finished and ready for summer.

Predictable I know but you should try this thread

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ter_92474.html

Bet Baldy's in the bath already with a glass of something, just going to join him now

[johnjohn]

... Sitting in the bath having overdone it again...

Ha ha, must read to the end of the thread before posting seems you got there before me

[johnjohn]

Spent the day trying to pick "Growmore" out of my cucumbers in pots.

They nearly died with the heat, (drooping leaves) And I think they had too much nitrogen.

My first real year trying to use fertiliser and was over keen!

Fon

They don't really need much early on, if they're flowering or developing fruit then maybe some liquid tomato feed..

[Guest]

cut some more grass, put down some more cardboard, 'bout it really. Oh, lots of wondering and pondering

[Bigmallly]

Had a couple of hours vaccing the pond but packed it in at lunchtime as it was too warm.

[Jay-ell]

Planted out 5 bags of Jazzy potato and 5 buckets of Purple Majesty.

Dug up a fig as I need to move it out the way of the raspberries that were about to overwhelm it.

Forgot how deep the pot was - and of course I was trying not to disturb the raspberries.

I have blossom on the Conference pear - just one flower at the moment though. The Jonagold apples and the cherry are forming some nice blossom as well.

Transplanted a heather into the acidic bed and a lavender out of a wheelbarrow. Harvested a large hexagonal paving slab from out of the lavender planting hole.

Also harvested tree cabbage, sorel, nine star broccoli, three cornered leeks and chard.

Fed the overwintering alliums with a comfrey feed.

Chatted a bit

[SaraJH]

Bed prep and rotation today, between us we moved the brassica cage onto its new bed, I forked through the old brassica bed, added some chicken manure pellets and fresh compost.
Harvested huge volumes of over wintered spuds from 8 30l tubs.
Harvested the last of the parsnips, PSB and some over wintered carrots.
Put all the old compost into dustbins with some chicken manure pellets.
Prepped the broad bean and courgette bed and then the day ran out.
Swapped out the compost in the squashes raised beds and put their compost on the salad and broad beans beds.
Planted out shallot sets.

I wanted to do so much more but it's astonishing how much times everything takes!

Thank goodness for a long weekend next weekend, my grow your own mojo has returned!

[Vince G]

planted 5 x 15' rows of Maris Piper.
Sowed short row of Chioggia Beetroot
Sowed chick peas.
Sowed red cabbage, Veronica Cauli and Calabrese Aquiles
Transplanted 3 tomato plants to the poly: Apero, Marmande and Coure di Bure.

Experimental sowings: Asparagus peas and soya beans from the mag. Anyone tried either of these before?

Picked 4lbs of asparagus - it's normally May before we've got a glut, picked first spears last week of March.

[johnjohn]

Well, yesterday and today really..
Yesterday:
Started by going over my friend and plot neighbours plot. I don't dig but he does but as he's poorly and I'm not we're doing it my way We'd covered the plot for the winter so it was just a case of rolling back the membrane and removing the weakened perennials, bit of a hoe and a rake job done. Created a couple of paths to separate areas with weed control fabric with the intention of covering with wood chippings at a later date, tree surgeon delivered a couple of loads during the week.

Re organised (some) of my compost- built a new hexagonal compost bin that was gifted from a friend's neighbour, it's massive! The intention is to transfer the compost from my ebay roller bin to finish it off allowing the roller to do its thing. We'll see..

Watered the polytunnel spuds that were bursting at the fleece so removed it with a view to replacing it as a loose covering. Also watered the overwintered poly cabbage, spring onions (not great) and land cress.

Today the intention was to spend more time in the garden

I popped down to the plot to get the mower but couldn't resist putting 3 rows of Rooster in whilst I was there, watered the poly, the garlic and the (dodgy) asparagus.
Did manage to get the lawns mowed and some of the borders sorted.

Had a fab Sunday roast..

[Baldy]

I did a great Sunday roast too - its all getting a bit spooky.
https://youtu.be/_jfTgyl6NIQ

[Hazel at the Hill]

Yesterday at the Hill, in the evening sunshine:

• did a final rake of bed prepped last week and sowed a row each of leek, parsnip and carrot.
• spent a serious amount of time and effort taming the wild patch in front of the new storage bench. Chased down and dug up a number of rooted bits of the bramble-intent-on-world-domination, dandelions, clods of grass (tussocks?), raspberry suckers.
• admired handiwork (which resulted in a rough recovery of about four square feet of ground )
• dug a few potatoes for tea (these are left over from last year - picasso - bit of slug damage but not bad at all), and a few leeks

[1Bee]

Over the weekend...

Weeded and topped-up one of my raised beds, sowed spring onions (300th try lucky?), rocket, mustard spinach and carrots, and cloched 'em, because it may be hot, but that's a damn chilly wind coming off the fells...

Dug over as much of the new bed as I could (assisted by 6yo) and planted out the sarpo blue danubes. I thought I may have planted them too close, but just checked the official sarpo site and I'm good, yay!

Assembled a cheap garden arch which looked much like a mobius band when I finished, and set it up on the plot with another arch and some canes as the skeleton of a french bean tunnel leading to the runner bean teepee... fingers crossed.

Filled an old wardrobe drawer with MPC and top soil as another raised bed and replanted some strawberry plants and last year's babies.

Mowed the paths.

Lay on the reclining chair (inherited from my mum, and still the most comfortable chair - outdoor or indoor - I have ever sat in) with the 6yo as my somewhat wriggly blanket, talking about ice cream and mud.

[Lumpy]

Not a twiddle to do with the garden, seeds or cuttings etc but a complete clear and deep clean of the kitchen plus a clear out of all the other cupboards because we have a MOUSE that was seen scampering along the work surfaces last night....................................

The mouse man has been summoned and I hope he turns up looking like a character from Ghostblusters!

So, I suppose I spent the day mouse poo hunting.

[burnie]

Dug last years contents from the dalek into the tattie bed in preparation for planting, forecast is for wet and cold with possible snow, blazing sunshine and 15 degrees just now??

[Small pumpkin]

Cut back the hedge. Moved stuff around to fit in my new hardening off bench. Planted spuds in bags, 1 spud per bag. More pricking out.