What I did today 2018

[Thelma Sanders]

Just froze - Shiver!

[geepee]

Ordered some double thickness ,double skinned bubble wrap with Alu' foil skin to line my Light box 2 and another Reptile cable to ensure frost proofing it.

[muck lover]

Well I wasted the entire day yesterday. At work. Sigh. Today I’m going to sit out in the poly tunnel and sieve some leafmould. I have an idea about using it to grow some carrots in parts. Maybe add some blood fish and bone. My home made compost is so full of weed seeds I wouldn’t dare sow carrots in it.

[Gillykat]

Yesterday's day off work was a washout with heavy rain and high winds but today was sunny so, as I don't start work until 5pm, I nipped up the allotment to do a few jobs.

Checked plants in greenhouse and then decided to tidy out the weeds from the polytunnel beds as I'll then be able to see what flowers I could salvage for the beds and what could go on the compost heap. Took less than an hour and looks so much tidier. Only downside was my finding a tub of chicken manure pellets which, as the tunnel hasn't had a cover on since August, were filled with water and STUNK!!!!! Thankfully I have a poor sense of smell but jeeeeeez these ponged!!!!! Even I was almost gagging so just as well Neil wasn't with me

Had to take a before & after pic on my phone because silly me forget to check the camera had a memory card in it!!! I'll upload them once I suss out how

[bramble]

Pinched out the growing tips of my Sweet pea plants and staked them up with a little support.
They have started putting out tendrils and are looking good.

[Martin H]

It was a lovely day here today. I got out into the back garden and emptied one compost bin and turned bin 2 into bin 1. It gave me three barrowloads of nice compost which I spread over the square foot bed ready for the spring. Not so long to wait now!

[Chestnut]

I am itching to get planting now that spring is on the way. Managed to restrain myself, other than some cress seeds on the kitchen windowsill....

[ESBkevin]

Well I wasted the entire day yesterday. At work. Sigh. Today I’m going to sit out in the poly tunnel and sieve some leafmould. I have an idea about using it to grow some carrots in parts. Maybe add some blood fish and bone. My home made compost is so full of weed seeds I wouldn’t dare sow carrots in it.

You could use the compost for the bulk and top off with leaf mould as a mulch weed barrier. Just pick the twigs out of each and away you go.
;-)

[Aunty Social]

First experience with pricking out sweet poupila seedlings that had sprung up in my heated propagator - all well, methinks. Now approximately 30 leeklings, three chilli (from Small Pumpkin) and four sweet pepper babies on the sunniest windowsill in the house. Or near, as a few infants started to bake in yesterday's sunlight.

Off to a good start!

[Small pumpkin]

Brought in more compost to warm up.
Potted on some more chillies.

[Deano's "Diggin It"]

Ms-T
Your Biquinho Yellow and Goronong yellow have been sown!

That's 34 varieties!

I must be mad!

[muck lover]

Hadn�t thought of that. I�ll give it a go and also see if I can use another pot with leaf mould and blood fish and bone. May as well do a few experiments.
One of my resolutions this year is to try to not buy-in just so much compost. I have multiple large compost heaps and it�s time I started to use them. Also an almost unlimited source of Leaf-mould. There are 1000 seats and a packet of carrots. If I can get the growing medium almost free it has enormous appeal for me. Similarly I�m planning on potatoes in pubs in mostly homegrown compost only for mould. We will see how it works out.

[Small pumpkin]

Finally finished weeding the bigger of the new beds.
Finished filling the smaller new bed with homemade compost.
Sown seeds.

[Guest]

Finished bunging in plants and bulbs in the front border which has had a face lift.
Sowed some seeds.
Lots of gawking at the amount of stuff that needs doing but will have to wait till I am right.

[Snowwhyte]

I trimmed some overgrown hedges and tidied up my patio. I set up my little blow away greenhouse and sowed some spinach and lettuce to go in it. I potted on some walking stick kale that had outgrown their pots.